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Local core - Global fringe? Contestations and collaborations in Calcutta's post-Fordist spatial restructuring
No full textLocal mediation of global forces in transformation of the urban fringe: case studies of IT clusters in three Indian cities
No full textGlobalisation and urban transformation in India: regional political cultures and governance responses
No full textThe micro-politics of urban transformation in the context of globalisation: a case study of Gurgaon, India
No full textThrough a case study on Gurgaon in the state of Haryana, this article explores how local political factors, the rural-urban divide and conflicts between multiple tiers of government influenced the governance process of a globalising urban region in India. In two decades, Gurgaon was transformed from a small rural town to a global hub for the outsourcing industry. This real estate sector-driven rapid urban makeover, through conversion of periurban agricultural land to create production and consumption spaces for the new economy, is leading to a fragmented landscape that contains glaring inequalities. The everyday tensions and contradictions of this transitional journey, which came sharply into focus with the formation of a new municipal corporation, form the immediate backdrop of the study
Climate smart development in Asia: transition to low carbon and climate resilient economies
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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
From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India
No full textInformed by the ‘right to the city’ literature a large body of research on urban transformation in India and other developing countries had shown how Global city aspirations of the urban elites have increasingly come about through commoditisation of urban space and inter alia dispossession of the poor. Taking-off from the above conceptualisation as the point of departure, this paper provides an alternative perspective of political consolidation of the urban informal sector and its implications. Looking through the lens of political mobilization of the street vendors in Kolkata, India, this paper shows that how the labour unions has enabled informal vendors to not only resist the designs of the hegemonic state successfully but to become a part of the city’s governance framework. The paper argues that class binaries provide only a partial picture about what it is an evolving and layered relationship in which at the neighbourhood scale, often there is high degree co-existence and interdependence between formal and informal economies and the people associated with it. Power relations and engagement patterns between the street vendors and the state authorities had changed over years, impacting quality of life within the core city and its long term sustainability. A new, fragmented spatial structure has started emerging, with the middle classes and the globalizing segments of the economy, moving away to gated enclaves at the urban fringe. These changes are not isolated phenomenon, but rather symptomatic with the larger process of urban transformation and entwined with the political-economic change in the state level.En lien avec la thématique du droit à la ville, un grand nombre de recherches sur les transformations urbaines en Inde et dans d’autres pays en développement ont montré la façon dont les aspirations des élites urbaines à constituer une ville globale se sont traduites par la marchandisation de l’espace urbain et par conséquent la dépossession des plus pauvres. Prenant ce cadre conceptuel comme point de départ, cet article propose une perspective alternative sur la consolidation politique du secteur urbain informel et ses implications. Au prisme de la mobilisation politique des vendeurs de rue à Calcutta en Inde, il s’agit de montrer que les syndicats ont permis aux vendeurs ambulants non seulement de résister avec succès aux conceptions d’un Etat hégémonique, mais aussi de devenir partie intégrante du cadre de gouvernance de la ville. L’article montre que les oppositions binaires entre économies formelles et informelles – et les personnes qui y sont associées - ne permettent qu’une vision partielle de relations stratifiées et en évolution, caractérisées par un haut niveau de coexistence et interdépendance entre elles, notamment à l’échelle du quartier. Les relations de pouvoir et les modes de relation entre les vendeurs de rue et les autorités étatiques ont changé au fil des années, avec un impact sur la qualité de vie dans le centre de la ville et sa durabilité à long terme. Une nouvelle structure spatiale fragmentée a commencé à se développer, en lien avec les classes moyennes et les segments de l’économie globalisée, se déplaçant vers les quartiers fermés aux franges de la ville. Ces changements ne constituent pas un phénomène isolé, mais sont symptomatiques de transformations urbaines plus larges, articulés à des changements économico-politiques au niveau étatique
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