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Searching for a Khmer Monastic Higher Education in Post-socialist Vietnam
No full textIn 2015 I met a 32-year-old man from a small village in Trà Vinh, a province of the Mekong Delta which is home to many of Vietnam’s ethnic minority Khmer. He had grown up in a family of landless farmers in a village that only recently had been connected to a sealed road. Like many Khmer students in this remote and impoverished province, he had dropped out of state school after only five years, and his Vietnamese was not good. He had, however, studied for several years in temple schools in his district where, while ordained as a monk, he had learnt to read and write Khmer. The Buddhist temples in his home province are linked in an educational network comprising 144 campuses that provide schooling in numerous subjects up to Grade 12. Despite its size and sophistication, this autonomous, religious-based education network is relatively obscure, even among Vietnamese people, for the education it provides is entirely in Khmer
Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation
Get PDFThirty years after the launch of economic liberalisation and global reintegration policies in the mid-1980s, Vietnamese are experiencing profound realignments in their social relationships. Revolutions in industry, consumption, exchange, and governance have transformed people’s relations with each other and have fostered new social
identities and networks. New media technologies, communications infrastructure, and education opportunities have widened cultural horizons and nurtured new ambitions and outlooks. Millions of Vietnamese are on the move as students, industrial workers, and marriage migrants have taken leave of home communities, and forged new links to people and places. In the process, divisions have opened
up between city and countryside, the old and the young, and people of different regions and ethnicity. Vietnamese mobilise existing connections of various kinds to bridge the gaps, but also find themselves unequally situated to build new relationships or take advantage of new opportunities. Social relationships once considered backward or obsolete are being re-evaluated as resources for development, and
practices and places that were once deemed marginal are assuming new centrality
Top ten tips from the editor-in-chief of Ageing & Society
No full textUnderstanding the nuances of academic writing genres is crucial to nailing down the craft that is writing for peer-review journal publication. In this presentation, we will leverage an Editor-in-Chief’s expertise, to explore the routines of esteemed international peer-review journals like Ageing & Society. By uncovering editors’ expectations, this session offers invaluable insights into mastering the art of writing for prestigious publications. More specifically, this presentation will shed light on different publication outlets, the different readers these cater to, and how these differences impact how we craft manuscripts about the research we conduct. Building upon this foundational understanding, we will delve into strategies for presenting data collected in specific national contexts, contributing to global discussions in social gerontology.The ultimate goal is to provide attendees with an editor-in-chief’s top 10 tips by focusing on the routines that established international peer-review journals, such as Ageing & Society utilize, and the expectations editors place on the different sections of a manuscript
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
Does gravity always win? Ageing experiences and models of perfection from an art-based ethnography of body excellence
No full textIn a post-essentialist and feminist approach, aging is a gendered performance and the body is perceived in terms of individual responsibility. The self is projected and evaluated according to the body performativity and we are all expected to put in place plans of excellence, actively minimizing the consequences of the time.
Based on the workshop series The Hacked Barbie, where participants where invited to reproduce their corporeality on a doll to deconstruct body-practices of the everyday life and models of perfections, this contribution aims to problematize the inequality for the access to resources perceived as necessary to an excellent aging. The creative workshop collected experimental ethnographic processes that merged oral expressions and practice-based interactions during the pandemic of 2021 in Italy and Portugal, collecting 58 voices over 6 editions.
Using the metaphorical flash to reflect on strategies and values, we aims to present collected experiences showing what means to perform a “proper” body and how it is negotiated during aging, showing strategies, vulnerabilities and choices of women in daily life. Preliminary results showed the embodiment of Eurocentric and postcolonial hierarchies of excellence, and the beautification pressure in being always perceived as young, beauty, white, body-hair-less, healthy, smooth and tonic, were symbolically expressed by participants who discussed how they take care of their bodies and themselves, enhancing the self-perception and the social performativity of the body.
If aging is a universal process, discriminants as race, economical power and social class highlight that it is not equal or homogeneous, despite the presentation of the democratic spot “because you are worth it”
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
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