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"He Did Exactly What They Probably Did to Him" : A Qualitative Study on Transgenerational Effects of Foster Care Related Experience of Violence
No full textUntil the 1980s, countless children and adolescents in Switzerland were used as cheap labour forces on farms, placed in reformatories, closed institutions or in foster families. This was part of the Swiss poverty governance. As we know today due to the social-political reappraisal and scientific investigation, many of those affected suffered greatly. They experienced physical and psychological violence, were exploited, sexually abused, subjected to drug trials or forced medication and suffered from the separation from their parents and siblings. After the years of placement, coming of age represented an abrupt transition to independence: The young adults lacked the financial resources, educational and occupational prospects and sustainable social relationships and networks needed for a successful life. They had no or difficult relationships with their families of origin. With these burdens, the affected people began to lead their lives as adults, and some started their own families. What does it mean when people who have experienced such forms of multiple violence as children and adolescents become parents? This study shows the transgenerational effects of these coercive measures in shedding light on experiences of domestic violence in the second generation. Also, this chapter deals with the question of how domestic violence can be approached in qualitative research, how this is shaped by a reciprocal vulnerability of study participant and researcher, and what can be gained in considering body and space as additional analytical dimensions. Based on these scientific insights, the importance of trauma-informed Social Work that includes a transgenera-tional perspective is pointed out
A Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Laws Pertaining to Intimate Partner Violence in Queensland (Australia) and Lagos (Nigeria)
No full textIntimate partner violence (or IPV) is increasingly recognized worldwide as a significant social and criminal problem that requires urgent governmental attention and remedy. While there are a range of nonlegislative measures that can be implemented to address such egregiously violent behaviors, the World Health Organization has additionally recommended that more efforts be made to reform the legal frameworks that attempt to directly, and indirectly, prevent such criminal conduct. With that recommendation in mind, this chapter will attempt to critically examine the nature, extent, as well as the applicable laws pertaining to IPV in two different legal jurisdictions, the first being in Queensland, Australia, and the second in Lagos, Nigeria. To that end, not only will their respective legal frameworks be interrogated in order to determine their saliency and effectiveness at curbing this deleterious conduct – a critical comparative analysis will also be conducted so as to potentially uncover valuable lessons that each jurisdiction can learn from one another. Finally, and where relevant, specific proposals will be made to reform their respective extant national legislation, which will hopefully address and/or ameliorate some/all of the key weaknesses and gaps revealed by this critical and comparative analyses
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
Intersex persons and their families in India : critical perspectives and recommendations for social work practice
No full textFamily is often the first site of meaning-making for children and young people, including for people with intersex variations, regarding gender and sexuality. In this chapter, I examine the role of families in the context of medicalization of intersex children and adolescents. While doctors largely determine gender assignment, families also participate in these decision-making processes. These decisions are often made on intersex infants and adolescents without their informed consent and active participation. Medical interventions for intersex people include a range of surgeries and hormone therapy in order to make their bodies adhere to binary understandings of sex and gender. Using data from semi-structured, qualitative interviews with doctors and families, I elucidate the ways in which families respond to and make meaning of the intersex diagnosis and the ensuing intersex medicalization. I highlight the need to work with families as critical sites for social work interventions. I argue that social work professionals have a critical role to play in bridging the gap in the knowledge that exists on intersex people in India and helping families to be able to make informed decisions
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
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