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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
Even flows and deferred lives: The logistification of migrant settlement in Sweden
Get PDFIn 2016, rebuilt containers and barracks accommodating so-called ‘newly arrived immigrants’ started to appear in Stockholm, Sweden. People who had been on the move for an extensive time, staying in refugee camps, and transit, reception and asylum centres, found themselves again in a state of deferral, this time within the refuge of the nation-state. This dissertation aims to deepen the understanding of how new thresholds arise and materialise, extending the migration trajectory within the nation-state. To this end, the dissertation attends to conflicting policies, bureaucratic practices and local conditions, focusing primarily on the logic and implementation of the Settlement Act, a Swedish dispersal policy enacted in the wake of the ‘summer of migration’ in 2015. The new law aimed to speed up the transition of ‘newly arrived immigrants’ into the labour market by creating ‘even flows’ between asylum centres and municipal accommodation.
More specifically, this dissertation explores how the practices of deferral are enacted in the implementation of the Settlement Act through three separate empirical domains: 1) calculations of the dispersal and matching system at the state level, 2) municipal management and the dwellers’ experiences of temporary accommodation and resettlement in Stockholm, and 3) the professional and social dimensions of the encounters between street-level bureaucrats and ‘newly arrived immigrants’.
The dissertation builds on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholm between 2018 and 2019. It comprises participant observations and interviews with officials and with ‘newly arrived immigrants’ living in temporary housing. The dissertation brings together and analyses the separate empirical domains by drawing on the concept of the logistification of migration. This analytical lens encourages us to dissect the inclusive yet differential mechanisms in the migration apparatus, paying attention to the temporal management of circulation and mobility, on the one hand, and the ensuing friction and contestation, on the other hand.
The dissertation argues that the logistification of migrant settlement management includes several practices that defer the housing shortage to sustain the acceleration from asylum centres to municipal accommodation, which produces a post-asylum threshold and incessant forced mobility. This continuous circulation of people operates as a filtering mechanism between asylum and integration, leading the ‘newly arrived immigrants’ into housing and labour precarity. Hence, the dissertation points to the linkages between the logistical management of settlement, practices of deferral and differential inclusion.
This dissertation contributes to the growing literature dealing with the logistification of migration by following state policy through its implementation. While large parts of the literature on the logistification of migration have focused on the state level of managing migration and borders, this dissertation pays attention to how the logistification takes shape within the borders of the nation-state
Svenska motsvarigheter till den engelska ing-satsen som koordinationsfras En kontrastiv undersökning av syntaxen i två översättningar av Joseph Conrads Lord Jim.
Get PDFI denna uppsats undersöks den engelska ing-satsen som har samord-ningsfunktion och hur den översätts till svenska. I en kontrastiv undersökning jämför jag en äldre översättning, gjord av Vera och Stig Dahlstedt, av Lord Jim som Joseph Conrad har skrivit, med en yngre översättning gjord av Nils Holmberg. Syftet är att, med hjälp av tidigare syntaxundersökningar av översättningar, jämföra hur två översättningar liknar/skiljer sig från varandra och originaltexten. Undersökningens fokus ligger på form, funktion och struktur och behandlar ing-satserna som har fått namnet koordinationsfraser och är samordnade satser, i de tidigare studierna. Till en början hade jag visionen om att finna en förändring av syntax mellan den tidigare och senare översättningen som jag kunde härleda till viljan att översätta den engelska ing-formen med en svensk presens participform. Målet fick snart modifieras till att analysera skillnaderna och likheterna och försöka förklara variationen av översättningarna av koordinationsfraserna.
Resultatet pekade på att översättningsvariationen härledde dels från en oviss tolkning av koordinationsfrasens funktion, dels från kon-sekvensen av översättarnas ordval i översättningen. Översättningarna av de engelska koordinationsfraserna följer två riktlinjer. De översätts med antingen verbala eller beskrivande satsled. Den äldre översättningen hade vid fler tillfällen än den yngre översättningen, tolkat ing-satsen som ett samordnat led. Jag försöker i uppsatsen att förklara översätt-ningsalternativen med att belysa översättarnas ekvivalensideal. Det visade sig att båda översättningarna prioriterade funktion och struktur framför form.
Sammanfattningsvis kom jag fram till att materialets omfång inte var tillräckligt brett för att dra några slutsatser om huruvida syntaxen hade förändrats på grund av den tämligen svåröversatta ing-satsens struktur, mellan de två översättningarna
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
'Rescuing Europe' and 'balancing powers': : A postcolonial critique of European digital sovereignty
No full textIn the last decades, the term digital sovereignty, together with technological sovereignty and strategic autonomy, has become common vocabulary within the EU. While originating in discussions about global computation and the erosion of national sovereignty, the discourses underpinning the use of digital sovereignty resonate with earlier colonial notions of 'rescuing Europe' and the 'balance of powers' recurring throughout the history of European integration. The discussions about EU digital sovereignty and its infrastructuring remind us of the EU's colonial past by re-inserting so-called European values into the expansion of digital infrastructures in Europe and beyond. While the literature studying the emergence of European digital sovereignty showcases how the use of the term underlines and confirms a geopolitical turn within the EU, it has not yet discussed its historical colonial connections. This article demonstrates, first, that the sociotechnical imaginaries attached to the infrastructuring of the EU's digital sovereignty re-actualise an earlier nexus between the European integration project and colonial extractive infrastructures predating the creation of the EU. Second, with the case of the Global Gateway, this article shows how this nexus gains new life through the infrastructuring of digital sovereignty, again unfolding in the Global South.Funding Agencies|Forskningsradet om Halsa, Arbetsliv och Valfard [2021-01636]; Forte [2021-01636] Funding Source: Forte</p
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
Back to camp life
No full textIn the wake of the long summer of migration in 2015, the Swedish government presented a new law to speed up the transfers of refugees with granted permission to stay in the country from state-financed asylum centres to municipal housing. Due to a prolonged affordable housing crisis in many of the larger city-regions and scarce access to public housing, the municipal governments and administrations offered the new denizens temporary solutions. In Stockholm County, these solutions consisted of workers’ barracks, container dwellings, rooms in refurbished elderly homes and entire areas with modular houses, easily erected on temporary building permits. The so-called Settlement Act (2016:38) intended to speed up resettlement, create conditions in which refugees could settle down, make themselves at home and integrate faster. However, the temporary housing solutions did not feel like homes and neither did they create a more efficient transition from asylum to integration. Many tenants experienced them as a step backwards rather than forward, from the asylum centres to a life they had experienced in camps, where confinement, suspension and insecurity imbued the everyday. In this paper, I present an excerpt from my PhD thesis that illustrates a temporal element of what Huub van Baar has called evictability. Defined as the constant threat of being removed from a sheltering place, I contextualise this threat here in one of a chain of recurrent situations of uncertain habitation along the migration route that does not end with asylum status.</p
Even flows and deferred lives: The logistification of migrant settlement in Sweden
No full textIn 2016, rebuilt containers and barracks accommodating so-called ‘newly arrived immigrants’ started to appear in Stockholm, Sweden. People who had been on the move for an extensive time, staying in refugee camps, and transit, reception and asylum centres, found themselves again in a state of deferral, this time within the refuge of the nation-state. This dissertation aims to deepen the understanding of how new thresholds arise and materialise, extending the migration trajectory within the nation-state. To this end, the dissertation attends to conflicting policies, bureaucratic practices and local conditions, focusing primarily on the logic and implementation of the Settlement Act, a Swedish dispersal policy enacted in the wake of the ‘summer of migration’ in 2015. The new law aimed to speed up the transition of ‘newly arrived immigrants’ into the labour market by creating ‘even flows’ between asylum centres and municipal accommodation. More specifically, this dissertation explores how the practices of deferral are enacted in the implementation of the Settlement Act through three separate empirical domains: 1) calculations of the dispersal and matching system at the state level, 2) municipal management and the dwellers’ experiences of temporary accommodation and resettlement in Stockholm, and 3) the professional and social dimensions of the encounters between street-level bureaucrats and ‘newly arrived immigrants’. The dissertation builds on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholm between 2018 and 2019. It comprises participant observations and interviews with officials and with ‘newly arrived immigrants’ living in temporary housing. The dissertation brings together and analyses the separate empirical domains by drawing on the concept of the logistification of migration. This analytical lens encourages us to dissect the inclusive yet differential mechanisms in the migration apparatus, paying attention to the temporal management of circulation and mobility, on the one hand, and the ensuing friction and contestation, on the other hand. The dissertation argues that the logistification of migrant settlement management includes several practices that defer the housing shortage to sustain the acceleration from asylum centres to municipal accommodation, which produces a post-asylum threshold and incessant forced mobility. This continuous circulation of people operates as a filtering mechanism between asylum and integration, leading the ‘newly arrived immigrants’ into housing and labour precarity. Hence, the dissertation points to the linkages between the logistical management of settlement, practices of deferral and differential inclusion. This dissertation contributes to the growing literature dealing with the logistification of migration by following state policy through its implementation. While large parts of the literature on the logistification of migration have focused on the state level of managing migration and borders, this dissertation pays attention to how the logistification takes shape within the borders of the nation-state
The Public Library and Individualization. A discourse analysis.
No full textThe aim of this Master's thesis is to analyze the relation between the discursive formation and the optical formation in the public library-apparatus. An ongoing individualization process in the library field and in society at large is used as a backdrop in the analysis. Discourse analysis is used as a method to explore the main Swedish library periodicals Biblioteksbladet, Bibliotek i Samhälle and DIK-forum. All issues from the years 1999 and 2009 have been used as material. The main analytical instruments applied in the analysis of this material are Michel Foucault's terms dispositive, apparatus and diagram. My analysis results in the identification of an individualization diagram which organizes the public library discourse and the public library space planning. This can be observed in the way the library discourse has an intensified focus on the user as a free individualistic subject and in the conveyed understanding of knowledge as relative and individual. The structure of the library space also follows an individualistic organization with an emphasis on flexibility and diversity of use. This may result in a diffuse understanding of how the library should be used. It could also become more difficult for the public libraries to claim legitimacy in society
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