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Revolution in Uwe Timm’s Morenga: Towards a Comparative Analysis of the Herero and the German Democratic Republic Revolutions
Get PDFThe intersection of history and memory makes us understand that history is a product of memory and memory cannot exist without history. Although scholarship has not given much attention to it as it has to the Holocaust, Germany’s colonial past in Africa is something worth talking about. Coming in late in the colonial game, Germany still managed to acquire four colonies in Africa, namely: Cameroun, Togo, German East Africa (including present-day Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania); German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia). However, another Holocaust took place in German South-West Africa, which Germans tried to sweep under the carpet, a Holocaust that should have gotten the same attention the Holocaust against the Jews got. The Herero genocide or Holocaust came as a popular revolution against the colonial masters. There are several reasons that led to that popular revolt which led to the genocide of 85% of the Herero population. A comparative analysis of the 1989 revolution in East Germany and the Herero revolution shows many similarities and differences.This paper seeks to answer the following questions: How similar or different are the contexts of the GDR and German South-West Africa revolutions? What and how have the power dynamics led to different outcomes? What role did race play in the outcome of the two revolutions? What role did memory play in the two revolutions? Using Uwe Timm’s fictional work Morenga, which is a colonial account of Germany’s colonial past from a contemporary German, this paper argues that the Herero revolution and the GDR revolution had a common purpose: liberty but a different outcome. Within the memory and postcolonial theory framework, I show the role race played in the different outcomes
The representation of biracial occupation children
Get PDFSubmission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo termsThe student, Felix Ayanbode, accepted the attached license on 2025-04-14 at 12:56.The student, Felix Ayanbode, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-04-14 at 12:59.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-04-17 at 16:19.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21762 on 2025-10-19 at 18:18:14The First World War marked a turning point for several European nations that participated in the war. Two of those nations are France and Germany. The events that took place during and after the war were critical to a small community of mixed-race children who were born as a result of relationships between black French soldiers, who were stationed in Germany after Germany lost the First World War, and white German women. These children were perceived as a shame and humiliation to the German nation. While research has been done on the racialized experiences of these children as well as the inhumane treatment they endured in the Third Reich, little research has been done on how these children have been represented in works of literature and how they represented themselves through oral and written histories. My dissertation investigates how these biracial occupation children are represented by others and how they decided to represent themselves to reclaim their agency. My dissertation, The Representation of Biracial Occupation Children, examines how these individuals grappled with matters of representation, nationality, identity, and belonging during the Third Reich. After Germany lost World War I, the Rhineland was occupied by French troops, including Black soldiers from France’s African colonies, primarily from West and North Africa. These soldiers were part of the “tirailleurs sénégalais,” a corps recruited from Senegal and other French colonial territories. Some of these soldiers engaged in relationships with white German women. Children born from these relationships were called “Rhineland Bastards” by the Nazis and suffered immense hardships at their hands, ranging from exclusion from public spaces to forced sterilization. In order not to perpetuate Nazi terminology and ideology, I choose to call them “biracial occupation children.” In four chapters, my dissertation delves into how these biracial children were portrayed by Nazi discourse and how they navigated fluid spaces and embraced multiple identities. Through three texts by and two interviews with surviving biracial occupation children, written in French, German, and English, I examine the relationship between race, space, and place in the Third Reich: Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness (1999), Didier Daeninckx’s Galadio (2010), Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues (2011), and two interviews, one of Hans Hauck and Fasia Jansen. While Destined to Witness is an autobiographical work, Galadio and Half-Blood Blues are novels. Both types of works try to give a voice to these excluded voices. My project is part of the broader effort to decenter not only German but European studies more broadly. I aim to recenter the experiences of black individuals – those who were biracial occupation children and those who were perceived and treated as such like Hans Massaquoi—by exploring questions of nationality, citizenship, and belonging relevant not only to the Nazi period in Germany but also to the time when and the place where these texts were written, including the US, Canada, France, and Germany. Drawing on postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and memory studies, this dissertation argues that biracial occupation children operated in realms of fluid identities due to the racialization of space and the spatialization of race. This dissertation explores the triangulated and transatlantic nature of their experiences
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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