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The coloniality of Italian fascist architecture
Get PDFThis article traces the modern history of the Piazza di Porta Capena in Rome. It begins with the design of a modernist building for the square by the architects Ridolfi and Cafiero in 1938 created to celebrate the empire of fascist Italy. The building was intended to host the Ministry of the Colonies and to be flanked by an ancient stele looted from Aksum in Ethiopia. With the shift to a new world order after 1945, the building was completed to serve as the headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. As part of Italy's belated commitment to reparations for colonial crimes, the stele was dismantled and reinstalled in Aksum in 2008. The void thus created in the piazza was filled by a new monument, this time a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attack in New York in 2001. Through the lens of the ‘coloniality of architecture', this article explores the changing aesthetics of the square, uncovering a history of shared rationalities between Italian fascist colonialism and its afterlife, as forms of government of ‘others'. By investigating the pìazza’s architectural configurations, it assists the re-orientation of narratives around the history of Italian fascist architecture
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
The Emotions of the Block: Constructing a landscape of feeling for the Telli housing estate in Aarau, Switzerland
No full textVariations 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
Cultivating Citizenship through Cultural Terrains: A Study of the NEOJIBA Project’s Complementary Registers of Emancipation in Bahia, Brazil
No full textThis study investigates NEOJIBA, a socio-pedagogical music initiative in Bahia, Brazil, analyzing its impact on urban development and the emancipation of socially vulnerable youth. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the research examines how NEOJIBA’s blend of cultural and material practices promotes emancipation through orchestral music, critical pedagogy, and community engagement, exploring themes of marginality, territory, culture, and socialization in citizenship development. Central to the analysis is NEOJIBA's operational structure and its diverse activities, which are focused on promoting autonomy, collaboration, and critical engagement with one’s territory, assessing their influence on participants' trajectories. Conclusively, the thesis illustrates how socially and culturally engaged practices, finely attuned to specific territorial contexts, facilitate the attainment of a more substantive citizenship that transcends its legal framework. It thus contributes to scholarly debates on the spatial and cultural construction of citizenship, advocating for a conceptualization based on everyday practices and ideas of urban agency, in line with perspectives from southern urban theorists like Holston and Caldeira. Furthermore, it informs discussions on urban policies and infrastructures aimed at mitigating youth marginalization, emphasizing how different material, social, and cultural supports act in complementarity to foster emancipation
Locked in and Locked out, two sides of the same coin. Social Integration and Urban Development in Marginalised Neighbourhoods in Switzerland. A Critique of Projets urbains
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