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Planning, managing and empowering while pursuing change: exploring the integration of people map-making and geographic information technologies
Full text linkThis research work is an exploration of practices for local inhabitants’ involvement within urban/rural planning processes and environmental management.A particular focus is placed on People Mapping, a hands-on practice in which people represent their own place of living on maps or relief models according to their local knowledge, everyday experience and sense of belonging. Geographic Information Technologies are here analysed as an added value to People Mapping, to make its outcomes more communicative, authoritative and, in particular, reusable as a base to build upon by planners. In fact, mapping is conceived as a means to put into constructive dialogue government authorities, professionals, and inhabitants conceived as local experts. In this sense, the process of map/model making is here considered a transformative practice. Through revealing the contextual social production of places, its identity and its representation in locals’ perspective; as well as tailoring alternatives, and liberating imaginaries; people enhance their agency and capacity to challenge institutionalized modes and contest dominant conceptions. The interaction among different stakeholders who can voice their positions and visions; the possibility of interweaving new power relationships and the co-production of a unique knowledge embodied in a visual device made of optimized data and information, lay essential foundations for more concerted development approaches and practices and consequently more just changes in space production and resources management
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
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