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Exploring the experiences of female film professionals and evaluating policies addressing gender disparities in Nollywood
No full textThis study critically investigates the lived experiences of female film professionals in Nigeria’s Nollywood industry through a feminist production lens that integrates postfeminist sensibility and intersectionality. It examines how gendered power dynamics operate at both the micro level, such as labour practices, wage disparities, harassment, and stereotyping, and the macro level, where industry structures, cultural norms, and policy gaps reinforce inequality. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 11 women working across Nollywood’s informal and largely self-regulated production ecosystem, the research uncovers systemic challenges including sex-for-roles demands, violence, exploitation, blacklisting, beauty and colourism standards, and career precarity. These experiences are shown to be further shaped by intersecting factors such as age, ethnicity, class, and body type. While participants expressed resilience and ambition, many internalised a postfeminist narrative of individual responsibility, emphasising self-help over structural critique, which often masked the need for collective activism or institutional reform.
In response to these findings, the study critically evaluates national and international gender policy frameworks, including the National Gender Policy (NGP) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It argues that Nollywood’s reliance on informal, self-regulatory mechanisms significantly undermines the effectiveness of such policies. The study, therefore, calls for enforceable, industry-wide gender policies and accountability structures that move beyond symbolic representation to address the systemic roots of inequality in the Nigerian film industry
Strengthening Women’s Rights in Contexts of Legal Pluralism:The Example of Mahr (Dower) Practices by Pakistani Muslims in Denmark
No full textA crisis within a crisis: How gender and disability impact the opportunities available to women with disabilities in Cambodia and Rwanda
No full textThe experiences of women with physical disabilities have long been overlooked in the fields of both gender and disability studies (Liasidou, 2013). Much of the literature which does exist to explore disability and gender is based in the Global North and tends to take a medical or clinical approach to disability. This thesis therefore takes a more participatory approach to gender and disability research, relying on the stories of women with disabilities themselves, through empirical evidence from two countries in the Global South. The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between gender and disability, and to understand how these factors of identity combine to limit the opportunities available to women with disabilities, especially in relation to education and employment. Utilising a mixed methods approach, which is rooted in participation and empowerment, and framed by critical disability studies and intersectional feminism, I consider the experiences of 36 women with physical disabilities, their advocates, communities, and support structures. These interviews highlight the discrimination faced by women with disabilities in their everyday lives, due to the social and institutional perceptions of both gender and disability in Cambodia and Rwanda. These are influenced by patriarchal norms and assumptions about the capabilities of women with disabilities, and tend to preclude them from education, employment, marriage, and personal relationships. In order to overcome these obstacles, women stressed the need for self-confidence and support from those around them. This thesis therefore argues for an increase in support for women with disabilities through both formal and informal channels.NUI Awards Travelling Doctoral Studentship
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
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
Sufferin and smilin: A narrative study of the impacts of violence against women on the space for action of African migrant women in Ireland
No full textThe literature on the impacts of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) details physical, reproductive and mental health impacts, and increasingly economic impacts; however less is known about the social impacts of VAWG. In particular, there is limited knowledge on the role of stigma beyond its relevance to help-seeking and disclosure. Using an intersectional narrative analysis, this thesis investigates the social impacts of lifetime experiences of VAWG among a small group of African women living in Ireland. I use the concept of life space or space for action (Lundgren 1998; Kelly et al. 2014) to frame social impacts as impacts on the relational self, and to explore the ways in which these might ripple out to the wider community.
This research was carried out among highly marginalized people in Ireland and investigated themes which are frequently silenced, presenting significant methodological challenges. I conducted five in-depth interviews and six participatory Focus Group Discussions with African migrant women, identifying a continuum of violence and oppression affecting research participants. Using narrative methods at all stages of the research, I developed a detailed analysis of collective identities and individual narratives of violence impact and survival. While the data set is small, it proves rich and revealing, and provides new insights into both intersectional oppression in Ireland, and the role played by stigma in the immediate social impacts of VAWG.
The research findings clearly identify two closely related collective identity tropes: the strong Black woman (Kanyeredzi 2017, Collins 2000) and the resilient survivor (Taylor 2018). These tropes, arising in the context of gendered racialized stigma and shame, produced impacts that are not previously documented in the VAWG literature. They are seen to protect victim-survivors from the intense pain and abjection of the emotion of shame, while also imposing a burden of what I term ‘stigma work’ on individuals: this is apparent in conscious efforts to maintain appearances and manage relationships. This work largely protected communities from the ripple effects of VAWG, placing the full burden of impacts on the individual. A counter-narrative of identity is also presented, which suggests different identity responses to stigma and the possibility of social burden-sharing.
This thesis represents one of the only in-depth academic studies of the intersections of race, migration, gender and violence in Ireland, and it identifies the strong Black woman trope for the first time in the Irish context. In the concept of space for action, it provides a new framework for understanding the social impacts of VAWG-related stigma and the ways that impacts can ripple from the individual, via her relationships, to the wider community. It identifies “stigma work” as an impact occurring in the context of both violence and stigma, and demonstrates how such work is protective of the individual at the affective level, and also protective of the wider community. The ultimate relational impact of VAWG was, in this study, absorbed almost entirely by individual victim-survivors: ‘suffering’ with trauma, isolation and intense responsibilities, while ‘smiling’ rather than exposing their vulnerability.
The thesis introduces new research questions for understanding VAWG and its impacts in the context of a continuum of intersecting violence and oppression. It offers recommendations to address gaps in understanding, policy and practice related to the specific needs of migrant women victim-survivors in Ireland
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