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"AWONDO (Patrick). Le sexe et ses doubles. (Homo)sexualités en postcolonie", par Brenda Masanga Ngum
No full textAWONDO (Patrick). Le sexe et ses doubles. (Homo)sexualités en postcolonie. Lyon, ENS éditions, 2019, 248 pages Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse sur la complexité de la compréhension et de l’expression de l’homosexualité au Cameroun. Il démontre que la mise en visibilité de l’homosexualité dans une société postcoloniale soulève des discussions au sein des champs politique, juridique, socio-économique, culturel et transnational. L’ouvrage, écrit par un sociologue, ambitionne de décrire les évén..
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Le sexe et ses doubles
No full textAu cours des deux dernières décennies, la question de l’orientation sexuelle et des identités de genre est devenue un sujet de débat public dans de nombreux pays africains. En lien avec la montée des violences anti-homosexuelles dans les années 2000, la recherche en sciences sociales s’est attelée à montrer que l’Afrique, soudainement homophobe, fut pendant longtemps un lieu de tolérance pour la diversité sexuelle, à condition qu’elle reste confinée dans l’espace privé. Dans ce contexte, sur la base d’une double enquête ethnographique au Cameroun et en France, Patrick Awondo analyse l’émergence de l’homosexualité comme sujet politique et son expression dans les parcours des « migrants sexuels » africains en France. Cet ouvrage propose ainsi un traitement ethnographique inédit de la naissance d’un militantisme homosexuel en Afrique sub-saharienne postcoloniale et de la construction de l’homosexualité comme question publique dans un contexte plus général d’« ensauvagement » de la société africaine.Over the past two decades, the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity has become a topic of public debate in many African countries. In connection with the rise of anti-homosexual violence in the 2000s, social science research has tried to show that, suddenly homophobic, Africa, had long been a place of tolerance for sexual diversity, on condition that it remained private. In this context, based on a double ethnographic survey in Cameroon and France, Patrick Awondo analyses the emergence of homosexuality as a political subject and its expression in the trajectories of African “sexual migrants” in France. This book proposes an ethnographic treatment of the unprecedented birth of homosexual activism in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa and the construction of homosexuality as a public issue in a more general context of the ensauvagement of African societies
Identifications homosexuelles, construction identitaire et tensions postcoloniales entre le Cameroun et la France
No full textL’article problématise la circulation de l’« identité homosexuelle » dans l’entre-deux de l’Occident et de l’Afrique. À partir de l’exemple camerounais, il montre comment des « tensions postcoloniales » parasitent le débat autour de l’homosexualité en se cristallisant notamment sur l’affrontement symbolique entre ordres moraux opposés. Au-delà des identifications sexuelles, l’analyse aborde aussi la situation des individus qui tentent par la migration d’échapper au régime de contrainte camerounais et se retrouvent dans la posture de « réfugié (homo)sexuel » en France, sans que pour autant la question de leur « identité » sexuelle soit « résolue ».The article aims at problematizing the circulation of the homosexual identity between western world and Africa. Growing up on the Cameroonian example, it shows how the debate on homosexuality is shaped by the “postcolonial tensions”, especially by focusing on the “moral war” witch is supposed to oppose the two spaces. After paying particular attention to the “sexual identifications” in context, the paper try to grasp the situation of “(homo) sexual refugees” who escape from Cameroon, but who still face a “sexual identity” problem in France
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