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Public participation in integrated development planning: a case study of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
No full textEnglish: Public participation in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) process does not take place in a
vacuum; it is juxtaposed within contextual community realities of power, politics, institutional
systemic practices and cultures, as well as inequities in resource capacity amongst other
relational social practices. The value system, history, economy, socio-political dynamics, legal
and administrative cultures, social conditions and power dynamics shape in critical ways the
context of how public participation influences IDP outcomes. An exploration of public
participation power dynamics is critical, since it signposts public participation constraints,
deepens critical consciousness in public officials, and enables them to ameliorate injustice,
thereby promoting community empowerment and distributive justice in integrated development
planning and municipal strategic planning. The purpose of this study is to explore the nature and
extent of public participation power dynamics during the IDP process and explain how these
dynamics influence IDP outcomes in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM). Public
participation power dynamics pervasively influence the outcomes of IDP processes, in that
forms of power shape the dynamics and outcomes of that process. The dialectical relationship
between manifestations of power and community agency shape in complex ways why and how
public participation may or might not be a space for giving voice to community priorities and
needs.
The study uses an exploratory and explanatory case study research design and a mixed method
research approach. A survey questionnaire located within the positivist paradigm and
quantitative methodology, as well as focus group discussions situated within the interpretive
paradigm and qualitative methodology were used as data collection methods. A final purposeful
sample (n=229) consisting of ward councillors, ward committee members, IDP representative
forum members and community stakeholders was used for the survey questionnaire. For the
second method of data collection, focus group discussions, a final sample (n=34) was used. The
results of the study suggest mixed views on respondents’ satisfaction with public participation
in the IDP in BCMM. Findings also reveal lack of adequate requisite knowledge and
understanding of the strategic nature of the IDP, as well as lack of competences for the public to
meaningfully participate. Lack of capabilities and functionings disempowered, marginalised and
excluded the public from participating and articulating community priorities and needs. Results
further show that some residents get excluded from public participation spaces in the IDP, based
on their political beliefs and affiliation. Other critically important voices are thus excluded.
Furthermore, the study findings indicate that residents in BCMM have low to stable levels of
trust in the municipal council’s ability to deliver services in response to community priorities
and needs. Findings thus suggest that public participation in the IDP in BCMM is tokenistic,
mostly done to comply with statutory and regulatory precincts. This implies that public
participation spaces in BCMM often fail to influence IDP outcomes in response to community
priorities and needs. Thus, public participation power dynamics in the IDP in BCMM,
marginalises and excludes less powerful interests. This study contributes to practice in that it
reveals the underlying dynamics that are undocumented and not well understood in municipal
planning. By exposing power dynamics, the study contributes to the empowerment and
conscientisation of municipal residents, municipal public officials and other stakeholders with
an interest in local governance and especially, public participation in the IDP processes. The
study is therefore valuable as it reveals the complexities of how individuals and communities
navigate forms of power. The study thus raises critical consciousness in municipal residents,
communities and public officials, thus enabling them to address and challenge visible, hidden
and invisible forms of power through behavioural changes, collective agency, local institutional,
systemic and social reforms, and thereby promoting distributive justice and social equity.Afrikaans: Openbare deelname aan die Geïntegreerde Ontwikkelingsplan (GO) is in ‘n jukstaposisie
teenoor die kontekstuele realiteite van die gemeenskap ten opsigte van mag, politiek,
institusionele sisteme en kulturele gebruike, sowel as die onbillike voorsiening van hulpbronne
van verwante maatskaplike dienste. Die waardesisteem, geskiedenis, ekonomie, sosio-politieke
dinamika, wetlike en administratiewe kulture, maatskaplike omstandighede en magsdinamika
vorm die kritiese wyse waarop openbare deelname die GO beïnvloed. ‘n Ondersoek na die
magsdinamika van openbare deelname is belangrik aangesien dit dui op openbare deelname, die
kritiese bewussyn van die amptenary verskerp word en in staat stel om ongeregtighede reg te
stel teneinde gemeenskapsbemagtiging en breëwordende geregtigheid te bevorder deur ‘n
geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsplan en strategiese munisipale beplanning. Die doel van hierdie
studie is om die aard en omvang van die magsdinamika van openbare deelname tydens die GOproses
te bepaal en te verduidelik hoe sodanige dinamika die gevolge van GO in die Buffalo
City Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit (BCMM) beïnvloed. Die magsdinamika van openbare
deelname het ‘n indringende invloed op die gevolge van die GO-prosesse deurdat dit die
dinamika en gevolge van die proses vervorm. Die dialektiese verhouding tussen die
openbaarmaking van mag en gemeenskapsagentskap vorm – op ‘n ingewikkelde wyse – die
wyse waarop openbare deelname moontlik, of moontlik nie, ‘n platform vir
gemeenskapsbelange en – behoeftes kan wees.
‘n Ondersoekende en interpreterende gevallestudie met ‘n gemengde navorsingsmetodiek is as
benadering in hierdie studie aangewend. ‘n Opnamevraelys binne die positivistiese paradigma
en kwantitatiewe metodologie, tesame met fokusgroepbesprekings wat geskied het binne die
interpretatiewe voorbeelde en kwalitatiewe metodologie, is benut as
inligtingsversamelingsmetodiek. ‘n Finale doelbewuste steekproef (n=229) bestaande uit
wyksraadslede, wykskomiteelede, GO-verteenwoordigende forumlede en belanghebbende lede
van die gemeenskap is vir die vraelys gebruik. Vir die tweede metode van inligtingsversameling
naamlik fokusgroepbesprekings, is ‘n finale steekproef (n=34) gebruik. Die resultate van die
studie dui op uiteenlopende menings met betrekking tot openbare deelname aan die GO en
BCMM by respondente. Bevindings toon verder ‘n gebrek aan voldoende kennis en begrip van
die strategiese aard van die GO, sowel as ‘n ontoereikende vermoë by die publiek vir
betekenisvolle deelname. Gebrekkige vermoëns en onmag het die publiek gemarginaliseer en
van deelname aan die bepaling van gemeenskapsprioriteite en behoeftebepaling uitgesluit. Die
resultate dui daarop dat sommige inwoners, as gevolg van politieke affiliasies en sienswyses
uitgesluit word van openbare deelname van die GO. Sommige stemme wat van kritiese belang
is, word sodoende uitgesluit.
Die studie bevind verder dat inwoners van die BCMM beperkte tot stabiele vlakke van vertroue
het in die vermoë van die munisipaliteit vir dienslewering volgens die gemeenskap se prioriteite
en behoeftes. Die bevindings dui daarop dat openbare deelname van die GO in BCMM slegs ‘n
gehoor is sonder werklike betekenis aangesien dit blykbaar gedoen word teneinde aan die wet
en maatreëls te voldoen. Dit sugureer dat funksies bedoel vir openbare deelname in BCMM
dikwels nie daarin slaag om GO-beplanning te beïnvloed volgens die gemeenskap se prioriteite
en behoeftes nie. Derhalwe word openbare deelname in GO in die BCMM gemarginaliseer en is
daar beperkte begrip van deelname vir die bepaling van prioriteite en behoeftes. Belangrike
stemme word sodoende uitgesluit.
Hierdie studie se bydrae tot die praktyk is daarin geleë dat die onderliggende dinamika wat nie
voorheen beskryf is nie en in munisipale beplanning swak begryp is, blootgestel word. Die
blootstelling van die kritiese magsdinamika dra by tot bewusmaking en bemagtiging van
munisipale inwoners, die munisipale amptenary en ander belanghebbendes in plaaslike regering,
sowel as in die besonder, in die belang van openbare deelname in die GO-proses. Die studie dra
by tot ‘n kritiese bewusmaking by gemeenskappe in munisipale gebiede van hoe ingewikkeld
dit vir enkelinge en gemeenskappe is om verskillende vorme van mag te bemeester. Dit moet
gedragsverandering, samewerking, plaaslike institusionele, sistemiese en maatskaplke
hervorming bewerkstellig ter versekering van geregtigheid en sosiale gelykheid
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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