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Foreword. Place attachment and the power of geographical approaches
No full textDealing with place attachment implies two main ontological and epistemological issues, still subject to discussion within the scientific community. In other words, what is place attachment? And how can it be detected? In the light of the relevant scientific literature produced by environmental psychology on place attachment, both at a theoretical and empirical level, this foreword highlights the original contribution that geography can give to the interdisciplinary debate on this topic
Geografia e antropologia: tracce di affinità in bilico
No full textQuesto contributo ricostruisce in chiave critica le relazioni intercorse tra geografia e antropologia, a partire dalla loro nascita in ambito scientifico e accademico. Obiettivo principale è quello di rintracciare le affinità che hanno legato le due discipline nel corso del tempo, ma anche i momenti di discontinuità e allontanamento, durante i quali l’antropologia ha spesso anticipato le acquisizioni della geografia
Regione culturale e linguistica
No full textLa locuzione “regione culturale” associa due termini che in geografia, così come in altre discipline sociali e umanistiche, sono stati messi in profonda discussione. Fino ad almeno tutti gli anni Sessanta del secolo scorso, tale espressione aveva una sua ragione d’essere ed era fulcro di studi e ricerche specifiche, sia sul piano teorico che applicativo. Ma con il passare del tempo, grazie alla terziarizzazione e informatizzazione dell’economia, all’intensificazione dei movimenti migratori, ai processi di urbanizzazione, alla diffusione capillare di tecnologie digitali, così come all’emergere di nuovi approcci scientifici che hanno rivoluzionato ontologie ed epistemologie consolidate, il concetto di regione culturale ha perso molto della sua ragione d’essere. Ha ancora senso, dunque, parlare oggi di regione culturale? In riferimento a quali aspetti e in quali termini? Questo capitolo intende dare risposta a tali interrogativi, dapprima esaminando il concetto di regione culturale nella sua evoluzione e nei suoi attuali possibili significati, quindi analizzando in profondità gli aspetti linguistici
Alternative urban narratives. Telling the Esquilino districts of Rome through history traces and collective memories
No full textSince at least three decades, the Esquilino district of Rome attracts media and scientific attention for its multi-ethnic connotations, the spread of illegal activities, and social/urban degradation. Due to the growing presence of immigrants and homeless people, the district is described as the meeting place of the city with the edges of the world, a sort of showcase of late-modern contradictions, the situated expression of the strong bond between globalization, international migration and new poverties.
However, the district offers the possibility of being interpreted through many other perspectives, including those related to the main events of the contemporary history. For example, the Esquilino was an important place of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation (1943-1944), and it welcomed the first ruling class and the major offices of the Italian neo-State, after the transfer of the capital from Florence to Rome (1871). From the “stumbling stones” laid in the streets of the district to the arcades of Vittorio Emanuele’s square in Piemontese style, from the Museum of the Resistance (ex prison of the SS - Schutzstaffel) to the commemorative plaques on the facades of the buildings: the district tells relevant events of both national and world history.
What does remains of that past in the experiences of the resident population? What memories, feelings, meanings are linked to those historical traces? How and when those traces operate? Is it possible to direct local memories towards transnational current issues? How to connect the local memory to the glocal present of the district? How to valorize the historical/cultural heritage of the Esquilino, beyond the above mentioned mainstream discourses? This contribution presents the first results of a research, funded by Sapienza University of Rome, aimed at answering these questions using qualitative methodologies, with the ultimate objective of proposing initiatives related (but not limited) to heritage tourism in the Esquilino district, with the active participation of both natives and immigrants
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
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