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Reclaim the Night: fight for people-centric security and belonging, collectivisation in the everyday public
No full textThis paper is a reflective and analytical piece contextualising the ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement in the citizen's upsurge against R. G. Kar rape and murder in West Bengal. It discusses the question of security which has been the much-debated issue in media and political discourses and one of the focal points of the doctor's movement. Consequently, it argues how feminist initiatives symbolised through ‘Reclaim the Night’/Raat Dakhol translating into occupying streets, institutions, public places, familiar forms of feminist campaigns historically have been the claims for alternate visions of security. These new feminist mobilisations at the local level, beyond the city and known activist networks created a new narrative of rage, protest, struggle for alter-security in the everyday public. The paper digs deep into the gendered nature of public, notions of statist security, shrinking democracy in the Indian public and argues how ‘Reclaim the Night’ movement created a different belonging to the public and sense of security
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
Beyond marriage equality: How to redefine the family
Full text linkThe endogamous family has survived because it chooses not to support single women, queer and trans persons, sex workers, or anyone wanting to marry outside of caste and religious norms. Only when this structure is challenged will there be scope to think of families in a renewed manner
Public Education in Bombay’s Mill District in the Early Twentieth Century
Full text linkThe emergence of Mumbai as India’s premier urban metropolis was directly related to the development of its textile industry from the mid nineteenth century. The extensive scholarly archive on Bombay (now Mumbai) provides a lens through which to view the growth of the early city, from studies of spatio-cultural changes, issues related to housing, sanitation, neighbourhoods, and city planning, to the work and lives of its industrial workforce, largely composed of migrants from the rural hinterland. Scholarly inquiry into the making of the city has largely left unaddressed the place of public schooling in the wider imagination of the unique urban modern sphere that Bombay came to represent. This paper draws on a research study that attempted to recover the history of public education in the city by focusing on the contexts in which children of the industrial working class were educated in the mill district of Bombay in the first half of the twentieth century. The paper focuses on the implementation of Free and Compulsory Primary Education (FCPE) in F and G wards of the city, collectively constituting the area known as Girangaon (village of the mills). The paper situates this significant experiment within the historical context of its times and attempts to provide a descriptive and thematic account of its implementation
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
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
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