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Wytyczanie granic jako czynnik stabilizujący młodą władzę radziecką. Regulacja granicy między Rosyjską Federacyjną Republiką Radziecką a Ukraińską Republiką Radziecką w latach 20. XX wieku
Get PDFElites and Empire : Imperial Biographies in Russia and Austria-Hungary (1850-1918)
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Rezension: "Die stille Integration. Identitätskonstruktionen von polnischen Migranten in Deutschland" / Thea D. Boldt. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2012. ISBN 9783593394961
No full textBei dem vorliegenden Buch handelt es sich um eine gekürzte und überarbeitete Fassung der von der Autorin verfassten Dissertation „Ethnische Identitätskonstruktionen und biographische Reinterpretationsprozesse. Eine Fallstudie zu biographischen Folgen der Migration am Beispiel von polnischen MigrantInnen in Deutschland“, die an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2010 angenommen wurde. Das Ziel des Buches ist es anhand biographischer Erzählungen von Personen, die aus Polen nach Deutschland migriert sind, einen Einblick zu erhalten, „wie Menschen in der Konstruktion ihrer Biographien auf die eigene Migrationserfahrung Bezug nehmen“ (S. 19). Das Buch leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer Reihe von Forschungsdesiderata der (deutschen) soziologischen (Migrations-)Forschung
Violence in defeat: the Wehrmacht and late-war society in East Prussia, 1944-1945
Get PDFDuring the battles for East Prussia in the final year of the Second World War, the ruthless conduct of
German troops resulted in vast material and personal damage. By focusing on the besieged ‘Festung
Königsberg’ in the spring of 1945, this dissertation argues that the violence that transpired in Germany
in 1945 can only be understood by devoting sustained attention to local actors and factors. By combining
social history and military history approaches, the research restores agency to the German army, the
Wehrmacht, as an active participant in the radicalisation of the German home front. This case study
demonstrates that due to the fragmentation of Germany, the decisions and orders of Wehrmacht
commanders had a disproportionately large impact at a local level. The radical nature of these decisions
was the direct result of the commanders’ violent experiences during the preceding years, while the
barbarised mindset of the rank-and-file encouraged the rigorous enforcement of military authority. The
dissertation’s findings contribute to four themes within the historiography of the Second World War.
First, it contributes to the recent debate surrounding the German Volksgemeinschaft by drawing
attention to the limits of loyalty to the regime, and the actors and events that prompted this fidelity to
shift. Secondly, by analysing a large number of unused archival sources, it provides the first in-depth
urban history of everyday life in Königsberg during its 1945 siege. Thirdly, it challenges the
conventional historiographical view in which fanatical Party officials were the main perpetrators of late-war
violence by emphasising the significance of the Wehrmacht as a key actor. Even though large
numbers of German troops operated in close proximity to German civilians, their conduct has hardly
been considered as an explanation of the events of 1945. Lastly, this dissertation combines and
transcends the different perspectives on German domestic and martial law, suggesting that the two were
ever more closely intertwined as the war progressed, resulting in a shift of behavioural patterns. The
focus on Königsberg and its immediate surroundings has allowed for a re-examination of late-war
society, being the first to focus attention on the triadic relationship of Wehrmacht, Party, and civilian
population
Rezension: "Kampf der Karten: Propaganda und Geschichtskarten als politische Instrumente und Identitätstexte"/ Peter Haslinger, Vadim Oswalt (Hg.). Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2012. ISBN 978-3-87969-370-2
No full text„Alte Karten sind schlüpfrige Zeugen,“ so der britische Marinehistoriker John Horace Perry, „aber wo wären Historiker ohne sie?“ Dies liegt nur teilweise in der nicht eindeutigen Natur von Karten als visuellen Quellen begründet, vor allem aber in dem Mangel an ausformulierten methodisch-theoretischen Zugängen und vergleichenden empirischen Studien. Diese Lücke will der von Peter Haslinger und Vadim Oswalt herausgegebene Band schließen
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
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
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