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‘So I say my name’: Towards a decolonial ethics for reading girls’ worlds in letters
No full textI greet you with my hand my friend
So I say my name.
—Sitti Salamah
This call for recognition and friendship was penned by Sitti Salamah from Panyabungan, a northwestern area of the island of Sumatra. Published in the women’s newspaper Soenting Melajoe (‘Malay Headdress’) in 1919, Sitti Salamah’s poem provides insight into the sentiments of an elite, educated girl in colonial Indonesian society. This chapter contributes to efforts to rethink the limits of a historical understanding of women writers by using the letters of teenagers to whom I refer as girls. Drawing on writings produced by girls in two West Sumatran Malay-language newspapers between 1912 and 1921, I trace an approach to understand their senses of the world, including race, modernity, locality and injustice. Girls’ perspectives elucidate how conceptions of self and solidarity and dreams of opportunities to participate in a global modernity reinscribed and refused colonial grammars of gender, class and racial differences
Rethinking histories of Indonesia: A decolonial approach
No full text‘I beg of you do not think of colonialism in the classic form which we of Indonesia, and our brothers in different parts of Asia and Africa, knew. Colonialism has also its modern dress, in the form of economic control, intellectual control, actual physical control by a small but alien community within a nation. It is a skilful and determined enemy, and it appears in many guises.’1
In his opening address at the famous 1955 Bandung Conference, Indonesian president Sukarno laid out the many challenges the people of Asia and Africa confronted in the post–World War II period. Ten years after the declaration of Indonesian independence, Sukarno signalled the continuing struggle to realise full independence across multiple spheres of life. The Bandung Conference and its emphasis on the enduring nature of colonialism are a theme about which many intellectuals, including decolonial thinkers, from across Asia, Africa and, later, South America continued to theorise for decades to come
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
Confronting coloniality through the courts? Reconsidering the Rawagede case
No full textIn the morning of 9 December 1947 in the village of Rawagede, in West Java, Cawi binti Baisa’s husband left home to work in the rice fields. He would never return. He was one of the hundreds of men and boys executed by Dutch troops who had come to the village searching in vain for the republican army captain Lukas Kustaryo. Sixty-four years later, in September 2011, a Dutch civil court ruled that the Dutch State was responsible for the massacre and ordered it to pay compensation to eight widows, including Cawi, and one male survivor. The court also demanded the Dutch State apologise. The Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia, Tjeerd de Zwaan, delivered this apology at the memorial site for the massacre in the presence of hundreds of villagers. Cawi welcomed the apology and said that ‘it makes me feel that my struggle was not useless’, while another widow, Lasmi binti Kasilan, added that ‘we never wanted vengeance. We wanted an apology and compensation, and in the end, we got it.
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
Rethinking Histories of Indonesia: Experiencing, Resisting and Renegotiating Coloniality
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