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Making space for faith:Interfaith initiatives in Denmark
No full textIn Denmark, the instigation of interfaith initiatives has been motivated by increasing religious diversity resulting from processes of immigration, globalisation and secularisation during the last twenty years. In this respect, interfaith initiatives aim at countering the challenges ascribed to this development, and as in other Scandinavian countries, they continue to rely upon an active civil society, with the Lutheran majority church playing a key role as intermediary (Galal et al. 2018). I argue that interfaith initiatives in Denmark are making inclusive spaces for faith by gathering and producing spaces of alliance between people of different religious backgrounds. By analysing how interfaith work strategically occupies or inhabits particular places through the gathering of distinct bodies, I show how interfaith initiatives relocate religion and religious diversity in three different relocations: in public streets and squares, in places of worship and in places usually considered free from religion. The result is a reconfiguration of spaces for religion that encourages new alliances, not only across religious differences, but also between believers and non-believers through the appearance of religious bodies in unexpected places.</p
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
Challenges for the struggle against austerity in Britain and Europe
No full textThis chapter analyses several challenges for the struggle against austerity, with an empirical focus on trends in Britain and Europe. It begins by sketching the descent from the historic class compromise of social democracy, highlighting the rise of inequality in the neoliberal period and illuminating the underlying tension between capitalism and democracy. It then turns to explore the roots of populist reaction, focussing on the venting of grievances and the projection of fears onto the so-called feral underclass, and emphasising the resurgent salience of xenophobia in the context of the Orwellian war on terror. It concludes by stressing both the difficulties with and the urgency of forging an emancipatory alternative to the tyranny and barbarism, indeed the defeat for humanity, caused by the victory of unfettered global capitalism
Afterword: A Plural Century?
No full textThis afterword reflects on the characteristics that might encourage us to consider ours a plural century, before pointing to examples from the monograph that help illustrate this. We begin with an account of the very category of pluralism, and then move to how it is discussed and mobilised politically. Pluralism, we believe, can only be positively mobilised through a dialogue that registers and works through power imbalances. As such, this afterword draws out a key inference from the volume as a whole
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
Islamic cosmopolitanism: Muslim minorities and religious pluralism in North America and Europe.
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