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The Business of Hope
Get PDFThis open access book contributes to research on the ascendance of neoliberalism in Canada through the vantage point of professional fundraising in the 1990s and 2000s. Fifty high-ranking fundraisers from across Canada were interviewed through 2008 and 2009 about changes they had witnessed since starting their careers. Fundraising as an occupation was burgeoning in this period in response to the devolution of state responsibility across the major domains of nonprofit activity: education, health care, social services, the arts, recreation, overseas humanitarian activities, and environmental protection. Welfare state retrenchment left the nonprofit and voluntary sector competing for private sources of funding with the help of these newly hired expert staff. As fundraisers worked to instill a culture of philanthropy, while targeting the ultra-rich and advocating for tax-favourable treatment of major gifts, they became both products and promoters of the neoliberal political and cultural reconstruction of Canadian society. This is an open access book
Toward a new harmony of money and reciprocity, community currencies in a gendered economy
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University of TorontoIntentional movements to redesign the local economy can disrupt conventional patterns of gender relations as can non-intentional change and crises. New practices can give rise to various types of gender politics, including moves to re-valorize the feminine, to re-position marginal masculinities, and to create relationships less governed by oppositional gender categories, as well as moves to reproduce gender divisions and hierarchies. Taking community currencies as social experiments, the thesis examines the multi-faceted gender politics that arise as new forms of money relations interact with the gendered economy. The study draws on research literature on gendered economic institutions: economic thought, paid and unpaid work, consumption, and the "gift economy." Interpretive analysis of gender politics in community currency projects is based on participant observation in LETS over three years and 40 intensive interviews with participants in LETS, HOURS and WomanShare in six cities in Ontario and New York State. Community currency relations are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity. Many exchanges involve monetizing work that was previously unmarketed. Also, all members must actively balance their earning and paying over time within the network. These aspects of community currency relations are in tension with gender asymmetries in the wider economy, including the undervaluation of "women's" work, female care-giver/male breadwinner ideologies and gender divisions of consumption and production. The tensions may constrain what the movement can achieve, but they also serve as a resource for members seeking new ways to "do gender."Ph.D
Toward a new harmony of money and reciprocity, community currencies in a gendered economy
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University of TorontoIntentional movements to redesign the local economy can disrupt conventional patterns of gender relations as can non-intentional change and crises. New practices can give rise to various types of gender politics, including moves to re-valorize the feminine, to re-position marginal masculinities, and to create relationships less governed by oppositional gender categories, as well as moves to reproduce gender divisions and hierarchies. Taking community currencies as social experiments, the thesis examines the multi-faceted gender politics that arise as new forms of money relations interact with the gendered economy. The study draws on research literature on gendered economic institutions: economic thought, paid and unpaid work, consumption, and the "gift economy." Interpretive analysis of gender politics in community currency projects is based on participant observation in LETS over three years and 40 intensive interviews with participants in LETS, HOURS and WomanShare in six cities in Ontario and New York State. Community currency relations are direct, personal and motivated by ideals of community, cooperation and reciprocity. Many exchanges involve monetizing work that was previously unmarketed. Also, all members must actively balance their earning and paying over time within the network. These aspects of community currency relations are in tension with gender asymmetries in the wider economy, including the undervaluation of "women's" work, female care-giver/male breadwinner ideologies and gender divisions of consumption and production. The tensions may constrain what the movement can achieve, but they also serve as a resource for members seeking new ways to "do gender."Ph.D
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child’s Political Speech
No full textThe 2012 appearance on YouTube of a speech about banking reform prompted mainstream news coverage and hundreds of online comments, dwelling less on the content of the speech than on the speaker, Victoria Grant, a twelve year-old girl. A qualitative content analysis of over 600 comments revealed disagreement about children’s capacities as participants in political and economic discussions. Commenters’ mixed beliefs were linked to dominant, frequently contradictory, discourses of childhood. Victoria Grant was positioned as embedded in educational processes, as competent but often exceptional, as incompetent, and as innocent and therefore vulnerable. These conflicting yet emotionally charged narratives of childhood illustrate the concept’s rhetorical elasticity and flexibility. Despite advances in the cause of children’s social participation in recent years, most of these adult-centered narratives undermine the idea of children as legitimate contributors to economic analysis and political debate
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Is Service-Learning the Kind Face of the Neo-Liberal University?
Get PDFThe emergence of service-learning pedagogies in Canada has received a variety of critical responses. Some regard service-learning as a public relations effort of universities and colleges; others see it as a countermovement to academic corporatization; still others consider it part of a wider cultural project to produce self-responsible and socially responsible, enterprising citizens. In this article, we argue that each type of response rests on a different critique of the neo-liberal context of post-secondary education; these critiques, in turn, stem from different conceptions of neo-liberalism: as policy, ideology, or governance (Larner, 2000). Rather than attempt to resolve contradictions among these conceptualizations, we address them as a framework for understanding divergent responses to service-learning. We illustrate the framework with the example of a high-enrolment undergraduate course, and we call for future research and educative engagement with the politics of post-secondary service-learning that is informed by a multi-faceted analysis of neo-liberalism.
L’émergence au Canada de la pédagogie d’apprentissage par le service communautaire a suscité une grande variété de réactions. Certains y voient une opération de relations publiques de la part des universités et des collèges, d’autres un mouvement à l’encontre du corporatisme académique, d’autres encore un volet d’un vaste projet culturel ayant pour but de former des citoyens entreprenants, et responsables envers eux-mêmes et la société. Dans cet article, nous avançons que chacune de ces réactions repose sur une critique particulière du contexte néolibéral de la formation postsecondaire, découlant elle-même de conceptions diverses du néolibéralisme : comme politique, comme idéologie ou comme gouvernance (Larner, 2000). Plutôt que de tenter de résoudre les contradictions qui opposent ces concepts, nous en faisons le cadre qui permet de mieux comprendre les réactions divergentes face à l’apprentissage par le service communautaire. Nous illustrons ce cadre en donnant l’exemple d’un cours populaire du premier cycle, puis soulignons le besoin d’entreprendre des recherches et d’étayer, par une analyse du néolibéralisme à multiples facettes, la politique de l’apprentissage postsecondaire par le service communautaire
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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