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Understanding Statelessness and Resilience in Assam, India
Get PDF“Understanding Statelessness and Resilience in Assam, India” tries to understand statelessness through the lived experience of people affected and how they build resilience and agency. This PhD project involved several sub-projects to answer specific questions like how to understand the mechanisms of statelessness, role of gender in the statelessness processes and mechanisms, how to understand the actions of people involved in the implementation of statelessness mechanisms, and how to understand resilience and agency through the actions of community workers and poets
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No full textUrdu prose has long history and is enriched with many stylist writers. A look into the past will show that Shah Abdul Qadir Delhvi translator of the Holy Quran, is the first stylist prose writer. Meer Amman, Ghalib, Sir Syed, Hali, Shibli, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Abdul Kalam Azad, Rasheed Ahmed Sidiqui, Khursheed-ul-Islam, Quratul Ain Haider are known stylist writers. The writers of Dastane Ameer Hamza are being ignored by the historians of Urdu; hence they have their own styles which have its own strength and worth. The article is a study of different styles and stylist writers of Urdu
Borderland Poetics Against New Colonialisms
No full textThis entry investigates borderland poetics as frameworks for anticolonial resistance against India’s evolving neocolonial structures. Analyzing contemporary poetry from Assam, Kashmir, and Adivasi regions in central India, it examines how these works critique ethnonationalism, extractive capitalism, and enforced cultural erasure. The entry demonstrates how these poetic practices construct counter-hegemonic narratives, reframe cultural heritage and identity beyond nationalist boundaries, and advance new terms for anticolonial resistance in the contemporary conjuncture
Miya poetry: Poetics, politics and polemics
No full textGlobalisation has reconfigured the interplay of social and spatial relations on an unprecedented scale. Resultantly, it has problematised the issues related to citizenship as well. Rightlessness and statelessness have become an inseparable part of such an emerging milieu. It is further complicated as state-mandated markers of belonging, allegiance and place-making is thrust on it to redefine the nation. This chapter highlights such a process of a state-mediated attempt of redefining citizenry and its simultaneous poetic response in Assam by a community that has more than often been vilified and violated in the name of being doubtful citizens. The chapter traces the circumstances under which a slur that has been historically used to identify a community, Miya, was adorned and poetically used to negotiate the threats and onslaught of state-mandated citizenship practices. Through poetics, the community in desperation has been sought to be rechristened by a few poets. Miya poetry therefore became the harbinger of hope for a community that has persistently suffered from citizenship blues. The poetics, the politics and the polemics associated with such a historical process have been analysed here. The chapter deployed an innovative methodological approach by combining retrospective auto-ethnographies of the authors, in-depth life history interviews with six Miya poets and a pool of selected Miya poems
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
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