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Politics and Exhaustion — with Asad Haider
No full textTheorist and author Asad Haider joins Below the Radar to discuss questions he explores in his book, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. Asad discusses how class dynamics cannot be separated from identity-driven movements. As well, he explores ideas of political exhaustion in the tradition of political theorists such as Sylvain Lazarus and Alain Badiou. In this interview, Asad interrogates the role of identity in politics and how it has been taken up in discourse — complicating the relationship between race and class in a context that has been defined by capital interests. Asad and Am discuss theoretical questions around frameworks for political organizing and solidarity across movements. He also speaks to our current moment as one of political exhaustion, where it\u27s difficult to mobilize transformative political change
Authoritarianism and Ideology
Full text linkIn “Authoritarianism and Ideology,” Asad Haider approaches the problem of authoritarianism by considering the classical question of tyranny, as framed by Spinoza, and how this can be traced to the Marxist theory of ideology. A fundamental axis of the debate over ideology in twentieth century Marxism was the phenomenon of fascism, theorized in highly influential but also markedly different ways by figures like Wilhelm Reich and Theodor Adorno. A close reading of two major texts—Reich\u27s Mass Psychology of Fascism and Adorno\u27s contributions to The Authoritarian Personality—provides a basis for conceptually elaborating different directions that can be taken in the study of authoritarianism within the framework of ideology critique. The essay concludes by examining a specific form of ideology which is gestured to by both Reich and Adorno, though not systematically explored: racial ideology. As a fundamental component of contemporary authoritarianism, the phenomenon of racism allows us to elaborate the theory of ideology and its political implications
SOBRE A “ARMADILHA DA IDENTIDADE”: RAÇA E CLASSE NOS DIAS DE HOJE
Full text linkResenha do livro "Armadilha da Identidade: Raça e classe nos dias de hoje", de Asad Haider
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
As armadilhas da identidade - entre os movimentos identitários e a luta revolucionária
No full textO presente artigo pretende refletir sobre as armadilhas da identidade, buscando entender a formação dos movimentos identitários nos Estados Unidos, pensando a questão da identidade na América Latina e na África e propondo a categoria de práxis negra como uma alternativa ao identitarismo. Para isso, esse artigo se alicerça principalmente no pensamento de três autores: Asad Haider, Frantz Fanon e Clóvis Moura. Esses três intelectuais ajudarão na compreensão da formação das identidades e na reflexão de como elas podem se tornar armadilhas ou instrumentos potentes na busca por emancipação.Este artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre las trampas de la identidad, buscando comprender la formación de los movimientos identitarios en Estados Unidos, pensar la cuestión de la identidad en América Latina y África y proponer la categoría de praxis negra como alternativa al identitarismo. Para ello, este artículo se basa principalmente en las reflexiones de tres autores: Asad Haider, Frantz Fanon y Clóvis Moura. Estos tres intelectuales nos ayudarán a comprender la formación de identidades y a reflexionar sobre cómo pueden convertirse en trampas o en poderosos instrumentos en la búsqueda de la emancipación.This article aims to reflect on the traps of identity, seeking to understand the formation of identity movements in the United States, thinking about the issue of identity in Latin America and Africa and proposing the category of black praxis as an alternative to identitarianism. To achieve this, this article is mainly based on the thoughts of three authors: Asad Haider, Frantz Fanon and Clóvis Moura. These three intellectuals will help understand the formation of identities and reflect on how they can become traps or powerful instruments in the search for emancipation
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