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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
Cuestionamientos sobre nacionalidad y pertenencia en la narrativa de viajes contemporánea de mujeres africanas
No full textContemporary African travel writing produces interesting possibilities redefining the directions of the genre. One of these promises manifests in how the crisis of nationhood and belonging impacts subjects’ navigation of sites of travel. African travel narratives by women foreground fractured intimacies encumbering journeys, especially when subjects travel «home». Such texts extensively grapple with the complexities of negotiating the personal and the collective in a bid to unravel belonging. This article examines two travelogues by African women: Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide and Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria as explorations of how reading precarities of nationhood through embodied travel re-imagines private journeys as a means to tease out public anxieties of nationhood and belonging. In the process of narrating precarious journeys, African women complicate the travelogue into a political statement of belonging and its paradoxes.La narrativa de viajes africana contemporánea revela posibilidades interesantes que redefinen la dirección que está tomando el género. Una de estas atractivas promesas es la forma en la que la crisis de nacionalidad afecta a los sujetos, especialmente cuando se manifiesta en cómo los individuos negocian los lugares de viaje. En la narrativa de viajes contemporánea escrita por mujeres africanas, las complejidades de la (no)pertenencia se ven realzadas por las especificidades que trastocan los viajes narrados. Esto se debe a los diferentes niveles a los que las autoras negocian lo privado y lo público en lugares de viajes. Este artículo examina dos crónicas de viajes escritas por mujeres africanas: A Long Way from Paradise de Leah Chishugi y Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria de Noo Saro-Wiwa. Abordo estos textos como exploraciones de las formas de leer cuestiones de nacionalidad precaria a través del viaje del propio cuerpo y que al mismo tiempo re-imaginan la manera de usar los viajes privados para exponer ansiedades públicas sobre nacionalidad y pertenencia. Sugiero que, en las crisis postcoloniales nacionales, los sujetos no solo están expuestos a una híper-visibilidad y vigilancia que impacta de forma variada las posibilidades de movilidad a su alcance, sino que también revelan una vulnerabilidad que traspasa lo privado a las políticas públicas de pertenencia. En este artículo demuestro que las viajeras, en el proceso de narrar viajes precarios, complican la crónica de viajes, que se vuelve una declaración política sobre el concepto de pertenencia y sus paradojas
Cuestionamientos sobre nacionalidad y pertenencia en la narrativa de viajes contemporánea de mujeres africanas
Get PDFContemporary African travel writing produces interesting possibilities redefining the directions of the genre. One of these promises manifests in how the crisis of nationhood and belonging impacts subjects’ navigation of sites of travel. African travel narratives by women foreground fractured intimacies encumbering journeys, especially when subjects travel «home». Such texts extensively grapple with the complexities of negotiating the personal and the collective in a bid to unravel belonging. This article examines two travelogues by African women: Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide and Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria as explorations of how reading precarities of nationhood through embodied travel re-imagines private journeys as a means to tease out public anxieties of nationhood and belonging. In the process of narrating precarious journeys, African women complicate the travelogue into a political statement of belonging and its paradoxes.La narrativa de viajes africana contemporánea revela posibilidades interesantes que redefinen la dirección que está tomando el género. Una de estas atractivas promesas es la forma en la que la crisis de nacionalidad afecta a los sujetos, especialmente cuando se manifiesta en cómo los individuos negocian los lugares de viaje. En la narrativa de viajes contemporánea escrita por mujeres africanas, las complejidades de la (no)pertenencia se ven realzadas por las especificidades que trastocan los viajes narrados. Esto se debe a los diferentes niveles a los que las autoras negocian lo privado y lo público en lugares de viajes. Este artículo examina dos crónicas de viajes escritas por mujeres africanas: A Long Way from Paradise de Leah Chishugi y Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria de Noo Saro-Wiwa. Abordo estos textos como exploraciones de las formas de leer cuestiones de nacionalidad precaria a través del viaje del propio cuerpo y que al mismo tiempo re-imaginan la manera de usar los viajes privados para exponer ansiedades públicas sobre nacionalidad y pertenencia. Sugiero que, en las crisis postcoloniales nacionales, los sujetos no solo están expuestos a una híper-visibilidad y vigilancia que impacta de forma variada las posibilidades de movilidad a su alcance, sino que también revelan una vulnerabilidad que traspasa lo privado a las políticas públicas de pertenencia. En este artículo demuestro que las viajeras, en el proceso de narrar viajes precarios, complican la crónica de viajes, que se vuelve una declaración política sobre el concepto de pertenencia y sus paradojas
Becoming-Animal: Negotiating Insider/Outsider Politics in Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise
Get PDFMobility practices in the postmodern world have enhanced free circulation of people, objects, ideas, and services. In the same vein,surveillance and boundary policing has also emerged. Narratives of forced flight exemplify this surveillance in detail. In this paper Iexplore the complexities of becoming-animal inherent in political crises that exploit insider/outsider trajectories. I employ Deleuze andGuattari’s concept of becoming-animal to tease out the nodes of becoming-animal in Leah Chishugi’s A Long Walk from Paradise. Todo this I focus on how the image of the ‘inyenzi’ (cockroach) is conceptualised by the different entities within the ‘war machine’ ofRwanda genocide to validate insider/outsider surveillance and status. This study furthers the conception of becoming-animal by teasingout the affective connections emergent from becoming-cockroach and what this form of becoming allows the narrator to negotiate.This paper concludes that while becoming-animal is a tactic of extermination employed by the war machine, embracing-animalallows for a troubling of the insider/outsider relations at the centre of such logic as well as understanding of human and animal relations
Poetics and politics in contemporary African travel writing
Get PDFThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2020.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates contemporary travel narratives about Africa by Africans authors. Scholarship on travel writing about Africa has largely centred examples from the Global North, yet there is a rich body of travel writing by African authors. I approach African travel writing as an emerging genre that
allows African authors to engage their marginality within the genre and initiate a transformative poetics inscribing alternative politics as viable forms of meaning-making. I argue that contemporary African travel writing stretches and redefines the aesthetic limits of the genre through experimentation which enables the form to carry the weight and complexities of African experiences. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt, James Clifford and Syed Manzurul Islam,
as well as local philosophy emergent from the texts, I examine the reimaginations of the form of the
travel narrative, which centre African experiences. This study examines the adaptations of the traditional poetics of the genre within a spirit of ‘writing back’ in Binyavanga Wainaina’s ‘Discovering Home,’ Sihle Khumalo’s Dark Continent, My Black Arse and Almost Sleeping My Way
to Timbuktu, and Kofi Akpabli’s A Sense of the Savannah: Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana. I argue that the practice of ‘writing back’ is both constrained and complicated by the conflicted histories of imperialism and neo-imperialism that surrounds the genre. This is followed by an exploration of Afrocentric interventions in the genre in the form of what I call the literary
guidebook. In this section I argue for a reading of Tony Mochama’s Nairobi: A Night Guide through the City-in-the-Sun, Alba Kunadu Sumprim’s A Place of Beautiful Nonsense and Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda as literary guidebooks that invest in the form fluidity capable of capturing the unstable textures of place within contemporary African urban and emotional geographies. The last section explores return as a distinct sub-genre of travel in Africa. By return, I refer to narratives where African subjects in the diaspora travel back to places of their ancestry within the continent. This section focusses on Leah Chishugi’s A Long Way from Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria, Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief, and Neera Kapur-Dromson’s From Jhelum to Tana. I argue that return travel is inflected by contestations of a past and a present of the travelling subject’s
psyche, from which stem losses and continuities, remembering and forgetting, revelation and
concealment, all of which inform perception in the moment of return. Throughout this dissertation, a
significant definition of the kinds of travel and travel narratives possible emanates from the complex
position of the authors as subjects travelling spaces that refuse reductive reading. By paying attention
to the intricate complexities of the locatedness of the travelling subjects, contemporary African travel
writing expands the margins of the genre and the kinds of discursivity the form generates. This study concludes that African travel writing is an interpretation of the genre that involves both a transformation of the form and a contestation of its politics.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsommingDoctora
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
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