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Predatory porn, sex work and solidarity at borders
No full textThis piece examines the exploitation of migrant sex workers in Greece through the marketization of nonconsensual video recording of sexual encounters where profit and pleasure are extracted from emerging predatory economies at border crossings. In the context of this special issue on Sexuality and Borders, the piece suggests that extraction of value from sexuality and sex work at borders relies on racial profiling of refugees, reinforcing, sorting and situating them in the colonial cartographies of space where the construction of desirability furnishes the consumer and producer with enduring orientalist fetishes of migrant male masculinity as untainted by the supposed metrosexualization of the European man. Blending history and fieldwork to uncover the production and proliferation of these sex tapes, the article also looks at the ways in which sexual play and pleasure seeking engender new social and spatial relations through solidarity that emerges in response to predatory porn industries
Bektashizmi si model dhe metaforë e "Islamit Ballkanik"
Full text linkThis paper critically examines the intersection of Islam and the European Union's enlargement policies in the Balkans, focusing on the construction of a homogenized "Balkan Islam." Employing a decolonial framework, the study draws from Sirin Adlbi Sibai’s decolonial Islamic thought and Salman Sayyid’s critique of Eurocentric historiography. Through this approach, it interrogates how revived Islamic practices are framed within discourses portraying Bektashism and Balkan Islam as embodiments of tolerance aligned with European values, while depicting other Islamic revivals as external threats. Practical implications of the findings suggest that policies aiming to integrate Balkan Muslims into the EU framework must avoid perpetuating divisions within Muslim communities or isolating them from the global Muslim world. The study calls for inclusive approaches that recognize the diversity within Balkan Islam and its complex historical ties to broader Muslim identities. It further advocates for a shift in EU policies, moving away from framing Balkan Muslims as “model minorities” and instead fostering equal and equitable representation of diverse Islamic traditions in Europe.Ky punim shqyrton në mënyrë kritike ndërveprimin midis Islamit dhe politikave të zgjerimit të Bashkimit Evropian në Ballkan, duke u fokusuar në ndërtimin e një “Islami Ballkanik” të homogjenizuar. Duke përdorur një kornizë dekoloniale, studimi mbështetet në mendimin islamik dekolonial të Sirin Adlbi Sibai dhe kritikën e Salman Sayyid ndaj historiografisë eurocentrike. Përmes kësaj qasjeje, ai shqyrton se si praktikat islame të ringjallura paraqiten në diskurse që portretizojnë bektashizmin dhe Islamin ballkanik si mishërime të tolerancës, ndërsa ringjalljet e tjera islame paraqiten si kërcënime të jashtme. Implikimet praktike të gjetjeve sugjerojnë që politikat që synojnë integrimin e myslimanëve të Ballkanit në kuadrin e BE-së duhet të shmangin përjetësimin e ndarjeve brenda komuniteteve myslimane ose izolimin e tyre nga bota myslimane globale. Studimi bën thirrje për qasje gjithëpërfshirëse që njeh diversitetin brenda Islamit Ballkanik dhe lidhjet komplekse historike të tij me identitetet më të gjera myslimane. Ai gjithashtu avokon për një ndryshim në politikat e BE-së, duke shmangur kornizimin e myslimanëve të Ballkanit si “pakica model” dhe duke promovuar përfaqësimin e barabartë të traditave të ndryshme islame në Evropë
Democratization and institutional development under international administration : the institutionalization of the Kosovo Assembly
Full text linkStrathclyde theses - ask staff. Thesis no. : T13363The thesis examines the process of legislative institutionalization in the context of postconflict international administration and democratization. The empirical base of the thesis is a case study of the Kosovo Assembly in its first two sessions of its existence (2001- 2008). The Kosovo Assembly provides a rare opportunity to analyse an institution from its design stage through its initial trajectory of institutionalization. The study reveals that the first legislative term proved the most significant in the establishment of internal norms and practices which were crucial to the Assembly asserting its autonomy as the most legitimate political institution vis-à-vis the international administration. The Assembly became the centre for struggle of delineating authority between the international and local administration, which in turn resulted in a considerable degree of internal institutionalization and democratization of the Assembly. The case of the Kosovo Assembly illustrates that pressure and imposition by exogenous actors can contribute in the assertiveness of domestic political institutions to reinforce their autonomy and establish their own internal working practices so as to maximize their contribution to state building and democratization. This however came at the price of almost total disconnect between the domestic and international governing structures. Within the broader frame of democratization under international administration, the thesis examines major theories of legislative institutionalization and their utility for understanding the institutional development of the Kosovo Assembly. Qualitative data was derived from 50 face-to-face interviews with Assembly Members, civil servants in the Assembly, executive officials, members of civil society organisations that follow the work of the Kosovo Assembly, as well as international staff working or having worked in Kosovo during the time period concerning this study. The interview data were deployed in conjunction with documentary analysis and participant observation. The Kosovo experience of democratic peacebuilding by international administration points to theoretical and practical ambiguities in understanding how political institutions, especially representative institutions, are configured and develop within democratic regimes institutionalized by 'outsiders'. Overall, however, the thesis concludes that institutionalization in post-conflict societies is a means of modulating conflict in an institutional setting.The thesis examines the process of legislative institutionalization in the context of postconflict international administration and democratization. The empirical base of the thesis is a case study of the Kosovo Assembly in its first two sessions of its existence (2001- 2008). The Kosovo Assembly provides a rare opportunity to analyse an institution from its design stage through its initial trajectory of institutionalization. The study reveals that the first legislative term proved the most significant in the establishment of internal norms and practices which were crucial to the Assembly asserting its autonomy as the most legitimate political institution vis-à-vis the international administration. The Assembly became the centre for struggle of delineating authority between the international and local administration, which in turn resulted in a considerable degree of internal institutionalization and democratization of the Assembly. The case of the Kosovo Assembly illustrates that pressure and imposition by exogenous actors can contribute in the assertiveness of domestic political institutions to reinforce their autonomy and establish their own internal working practices so as to maximize their contribution to state building and democratization. This however came at the price of almost total disconnect between the domestic and international governing structures. Within the broader frame of democratization under international administration, the thesis examines major theories of legislative institutionalization and their utility for understanding the institutional development of the Kosovo Assembly. Qualitative data was derived from 50 face-to-face interviews with Assembly Members, civil servants in the Assembly, executive officials, members of civil society organisations that follow the work of the Kosovo Assembly, as well as international staff working or having worked in Kosovo during the time period concerning this study. The interview data were deployed in conjunction with documentary analysis and participant observation. The Kosovo experience of democratic peacebuilding by international administration points to theoretical and practical ambiguities in understanding how political institutions, especially representative institutions, are configured and develop within democratic regimes institutionalized by 'outsiders'. Overall, however, the thesis concludes that institutionalization in post-conflict societies is a means of modulating conflict in an institutional setting
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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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