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Walker, S E, VX43820
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/423533Surname: WALKER. Given Name(s) or Initials: S E. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX43820. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 29499.250048
Item: [2016.0049.55794] "Walker, S E, VX43820
Challenging the Antipolitics of Regimes of Care: Young African Men in Italy Resist Precarious Futures
No full textIn the European migration regime, unaccompanied minors, by virtue of their status as children, are conceived as deserving of care and incapable of giving care or taking care of themselves. They must then submit to the care (by adults) granted by the regime. In this paper, I show how those exposed to the “antipolitics” of “regimes of care” outlined by Miriam Ticktin are often already engaged in what Ticktin has defined as a “decolonial feminist commons.” Using the subject of the unaccompanied minor as a lens, I demonstrate how young African men, bureaucratically labelled as such once they arrive in Italy, have been using their own collective form of care to contest their marginalized position within the unjust and violent global border regime and to hold fast to their dreams of a better future. Through focus on a specific reception center, “Giallo,” I suggest that the care provided therein, together with the young men’s interaction with this space, creates room for the young men to maneuver to contest antipolitics and maintain hope for a better future. In presenting such an argument, I recognize the asymmetrical power relations and structural inequalities inherent in care, but here I focus on moments of resistance and the alternative practices of radical care that the young men practice despite, through, and alongside unequal power structures. In doing so, I explicate the ongoing value of feminist concepts of care and caring, in particular when in dialogue with critical race and queer scholarship
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control
No full textThis paper critically explores how young migrants in Italy utilise their status as ‘minors’ to construct a ‘better future’ as they transition to adulthood. It draws upon data captured through ethnographic fieldwork with young African men who have made the perilous illegalised journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. I use this data to evidence how these young men engage in unruly mobility within Italy to negotiate the migration regime and resist the immobility, temporal suspense and racialisation of their bodies. These findings contribute to debates in children’s geographies by theorising the multiple temporalities of youth and transnational mobility. More specifically, the paper reveals the inherent contradiction in how mobility represents and is narrated as a resource, and yet can become a trap for young migrants
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy
No full textThis article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian reception centre for male ‘unaccompanied minors’. Drawing on the concepts of ‘hostipitality’ (Derrida), the Black Mediterranean, and ‘intimate citizenship’ (Plummer), we examine the political ambivalence of hospitality for young African men as they transition to adulthood and how this is experienced through the intersections of age, gender and race. The biographical transition to adulthood thus offers a unique empirical opportunity to examine the extent of hospitality, as the (uninvited) Black child guest crosses the threshold into being an unwanted, potentially deportable, ‘invader’. Drawing from the young men’s images (art and photographs) and narratives, we discuss their experiences of differential anti-Blackness during their migration journeys and how hegemonic notions of masculinity circumscribe the quest for legal citizenship and the meaning of adulthood. While capitulation to gender normativity bolsters claims to citizenship, racism is a continuing and profound threat to ontological security
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