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Exploitation, victimhood and gendered performance in Rituparno Ghosh’s Bariwali
Get PDFThis article analyzes Rituparno Ghosh's celebrated film Bariwali (The Lady of the House, 2000). The film marks the beginnings of Ghosh's treatment of gender and sexual politics. Ghosh's earlier films Unishe April (1994) and Dahan (1997) engaged with strong female characters, but Bariwali is the first of his films to narrate the various ways in which female agency is routed through male exploitation and patriarchy. Through close readings of the characters and the visual tropes perspicaciously crafted by Ghosh, this article positions hegemonic masculinity and heteropatriarchal privilege as the exploiter within India's gendered politics. By placing the protagonist Banalata both within the feudal space as well as within the bhadralok discourse, one can trace the transition from tradition to modernity that the story represents, and in turn trace Ghosh's unique understanding of and reaction against India's prevailing social and cultural norms
Introduction: The dynamics of dissent: theorizing movements for inclusive futures
No full textThe subject of social movements has long been a major sociological specialism. New movements constantly arise in response to new situations, environmental, social and political; old movements may fade away or revitalize themselves. Movements can be thought of as praxis–the unity of theory and practice, oriented towards the future, and as both experiments in actually creating social change, and as sources of inspiration and aspiration to plant and concretize the idea of the possibility of change in the minds of people. Movements are by their very nature future oriented, and have often been more than allies in the pursuit of positive social change, but actually the cutting edge of such change–cultural, social or political. The dissident imagination as an anticipatory tool can destabilize assumptions and set new socio-cultural horizons that have the power to mobilize powerful movements of dissent and renewal. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book
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
Perspectives on Japan’s anti-nuclear movements: The effectiveness of social movements?
No full textThe intense earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the north-east coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, did severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown as a result of loss of power and consequent unavailability of coolant water. This disaster, considered only second to the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in terms of the magnitude of any nuclear disaster, triggered a major revival in the Japanese anti-nuclear movement, especially in its opposition to nuclear energy generation in that highly earthquake- and typhoon-prone country. This chapter examines the revival of the anti-nuclear movement – actually a loose coalition of many small social movements, citizens’ groups, artists and NGOs – and analyses its subsequent decline as the immediate crisis began to fade from memory and when faced with a Conservative and pro-industry government. The chapter examines the rapid rise and slow decline of the anti-nuclear movement in terms of the sociology and politics of contemporary Japan, the difficulty of sustaining coalitions, the shortness of historical memory and the lack of access on the part of Japanese social movements to the real levers of power. The chapter concludes by arguing that, while the anti-nuclear movement has been ineffective in achieving its primary goal, it has on the one hand established linkages between hitherto separated groups of activists, such as artists, musicians and comic-book writers, and the more politically, socially and environmentally oriented social movements, and on the other has signaled lessons for Japanese social movements as a whole in indicating where the weaknesses and structural problems of social movements exist, and, by implication, what might be done to address such problems in the face of inevitable social challenges, and the lessons that citizens’ groups might learn from the responses to the March 2011 disaster
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
Dynamics of dissent: Theorizing movements for inclusive futures
No full textThis book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs, slogans, poetry, and performances. The chapters in the book explore these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture, politics, beliefs, and the collective society – via music and poetry as in the Bhakti movement or through feministic theories born in post-World War Europe. It also explores how these dynamic movements generate alternate spaces within which the self, identity, and collective purpose take new forms and find new meanings as they travel.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities, literature, history, sociology, politics, and culture studies
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