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Colonial Continuities - A study of anti-racism in Aotearoa New Zealand and Spain
No full textDrawing on critical race and decolonial theory, the thesis seeks to interrogate the lack of engagement in anti-racist work and Peace and Conflict Studies literature with race and colonialism as structuring mechanisms of much of the conflict and violence that afflicts the world today. Moreover, this thesis seeks to explicate the role of colonialism in shaping conceptualizations of race and racism and how the very concept of race (and whiteness) is placed in relationship to the historicity of racism within anti-racist discourse in Spain and Aotearoa New Zealand. Undertaking a genealogy of the concept of race in racism and anti-racism literature in Spain and New Zealand, and employing a discourse analysis of anti-racism material, including interviews with practitioners, the thesis finds that anti-racism is practiced by rejecting the concept of race altogether. Spanish anti- racism is delinked from colonial history and focused on immigration. In Aotearoa New Zealand, anti-racism is primarily focused the contestation of colonial history in order to defend the rights of Māori, but simultaneously disregards how global ideas of race impact other non-white subjects in the country.Identifying the colonial encounter as fundamental to the discursive formation of race, the thesis interrogates how coloniality circumscribes the possibilities of anti-racism.
The history of the Spanish empire and its colonies and the Anglo colonial exploration of Oceania were crucial sites for the production of racial thought. While neither Spain nor New Zealand have been a central focus of research on anti-racism or racism more broadly, this dissertation aims to put ‘the periphery’ at the center of critical race studies of anti-racism. Discourse analysis of anti-racism materials highlights how the disregard for coloniality’s historical continuities is reflected in the absence of engagement with white privilege alongside racism. The dissertation demonstrates how the structure of whiteness, in which anti-racist groups exist, impacts and perpetuates patterns of forgetting and ignorance. For anti-racism this means that not engaging racism in its past and present iterations, and failing to conceptualize race and racialization as historically evolving, runs the risk of re-producing violence and perpetuating racial injustice
Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole: views from two Mediterranean cities
No full textIn what other registries and imaginaries might we locate cities along the northern Mediterranean shores that are now thought of as European? This chapter looks at Barcelona and Salonika as Europeanised but not necessarily European cities. In examining their historically diverse urban centres, contact points of migration patterns and more recently sites of migrant settlement, we try to provide insight into different approaches to migrant claims to and contestations of both the cityscapes and their embedded memories. Eurocentric readings and makings of these cities have flattened out or erased their not-so-European urban and social fabric. Situated in decolonial de-linking and divesting from the ways in which these cities are moulded and modelled in Eurocentric epistemologies and imaginaries, this chapter looks at migrant and queer of colour politics and historicity that circumvent the pressure and strengthening of ethnic, racial, national, and post-national European mythologies by identifying with the city and its neighbourhoods while producing multicentred and intersectional narratives and spaces of belonging, becoming that de-Europeanise urban space
Más allá del vandalism: reflexiones sobre la retirada de monumentos coloniales en Berlín y Barcelona
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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
Fugitive Rehearsals for Peace: Cross-border Insurgent Solidarities and Abolitionist Infrastructures of Care
Full text linkIn today’s European context, defined by intertwined dynamics of racial capitalism, expanding militarization, and deepening ties between security, surveillance, and carceral infrastructures, there is not only silent complicity but also forms of active entanglement and involvement in ongoing colonial and imperial violence, most visibly in Palestine (Pervez, 2025; Pratt et. al. 2025; Shoman et. al. 2025). This is accompanied by the escalating criminalization of activist movements, from Free Palestine and broader anticolonial movements to environmental action and anti-war mobilizations, alongside the deployment of advanced surveillance technologies, the tightening of border regimes under the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, and the growing normalization of fascist, racist, and cisheteropatriarchal politics across the continent. We start writing this article by asking ourselves: What does it mean to think about peace in genocidal times? To pose the question is already to refuse the illusion that peace is a stable destination awaiting us just beyond the latest atrocity. We ask this question not from a position of academic detachment or in pursuit of yet another contribution to the global corporate academic-military complex (Baccheta et. al. 2018; Best et. al. 2010). We come to this writing as a collective of people whose lives and lineages are marked by war, displacement, and resistance. Our histories are shaped by contexts of war and violence in which U.S. and European imperial interventions have played decisive roles, from the Balkans to West Asia. Some of us carry memories of revolutionary dreams seeded in the midst of ruin; others carry the weight of witnessing those dreams betrayed, co-opted, or crushed. These shared yet divergent experiences, shaped by the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, the war in Yugoslavia and the genocidal wars on Bosnia and Kosovo, and the everyday violences of “peaceful,” liberal Western democracies (Azarmandi, 2024; Sunca, 2024), have brought us together: to think, work, and to imagine a different world. Our work emerges not from a place of scholarly distance, but from deeply embodied, entangled positions formed through anticolonial queer and trans* struggles and long-standing collaboration as researchers, educators, and activists.Across the following sections, this article weaves together abolitionist theory, lived struggle, and political activism to interrogate how “peace” is constructed, mobilized, and weaponized in Western academic and political discourse. Rather than a neutral or benevolent condition, we trace how peace is often deployed to obscure structural violence and uphold racial capitalism, imperial domination, and carceral control. In response, we center fugitive rehearsals for peace, imperfect, insurgent, and embodied practices that refuse the terms of domination and instead nurture abolitionist futures in the present. Drawing from Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s insistence that “abolition is life in rehearsal” (Estes, Gilmore & Loperena, 2021, p. 262), we understand peace not as a final state, but as a collective, ongoing praxis of survival, experimentation, and world-building amid, and against, genocidal conditions (Azarmandi, 2025). The present, however violent, remains the only ground from which such rehearsals can take root. Rehearsal, unlike recital, is a mode of learning that requires us, to think together, to embody what we notice, and to act in ways that show the social ground of struggle “can be changed.” This is not metaphorical, but grounded in the work of organizing “with people who are already organized,” building connections across movements and communities to forge what she names an “abolition geography” (Estes, Gilmore & Loperena, 2021, pp. 262–263)
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
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