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Statactivism and Critical Community Psychology:using statistical activism to resist injustice in the NHS and Higher Education
No full textStatactivism has been articulated as a militant use of figures whereby previous representations of reality can be challenged and contested. A major aim of those who use statactivism is to subvert problematic models of social accountability. This chapter focuses on two such projects carried out in recent years. The Brighton Citizens’ Health Services Survey (BCHSS) was developed to explore and potentially challenge how knowledge is used and by whom in the production of local health commissioning institutions and relations. The National Senior Management Survey was a survey to move the gaze from the narrow metrics of Higher Education (HE) staff performance to the senior management teams who set the conditions through which staff performance becomes possible via a national league table of senior management teams. This chapter provides an account of the projects, considers the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of using statactivism in the content of challenging public sector marketisation, and considers the range of controversies that arose as a result of the projects. It explores the way that research straddling the boundary between academic inquiry and political activism speaks to the many issues that are prevalent in the changing HE and Health sectors
Introduction to community psychology and the socio-ecomomics of mental distress: international perspectives
No full textThe indebted individual:dominant discourses and alternative understandings of personal debt in the UK
No full textThis chapter offers an account of individual indebtedness which attempts to explore the possibility of seeing debt differently. The authors draw on Foucault's understanding of power, knowledge and agency to provide a theoretical account of how individual indebtedness might be seen through an alternative lens. Their contribution draws on data from interviews with a range of stakeholders within the UK debt industry to highlight the "moments of resistance" that were discovered in the interview data in which alternative discourses come to the fore, facilitating an alternative construction of the problem of debt, and subsequently repositioning the "indebted individual" in a more sympathetic position. The chapter concludes by suggesting that attention needs to be paid to challenging banking policies, "educational" initiatives, financial discourses and the individualisation thesis proliferated in much of the mainstream psychology if we are to challenge the entrenched structural precursors of personal debt. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
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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
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
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