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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
Approaching the Edge:Towards a New Materialist Theory of Democracy for the Anthropocene
No full textApproaching the Edge: Towards a New Materialist Theory of Democracy for the Anthropocene is an attempt to rethink what democracy might mean in a time of widespread ecological and climatic crises. Drawing on recent theoretical innovations by thinkers like Jane Bennett, Bruno Latour, Anna Tsing, and Donna Haraway, the dissertation argues in favor of a new materialist theory of democracy that envisions politics as a multi-sited, multispecies affair involving complex assemblages of both human and nonhuman forces and beings. More specifically, the dissertation offers a new materialist reconceptualization of three central concepts in contemporary democratic theory: political participation, political representation, and political leadership. Throughout the dissertation, the theoretical insights are developed in close conversation with an ongoing ethnographic engagement with a small rural community on the west coast of Denmark called Lemvig, where many of the challenges associated with democratic politics in the Anthropocene are acutely felt. By investigating the abstract theoretical matters through the lens of this particular place, the dissertation aims to offer a different kind of situated knowledge about the state of democracy today, which takes seriously the multiple and complex character of the Anthropocene condition
Kyle P. Whyte: Ancestrale dystopier
No full textThis book chapter is an introduction to the work of Kyle P. Whyte. Whyte is a Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in North America. Whyte's research addresses issues of environmental and climate justice. In particular, focusing on the challenges and injustices experienced by indigenous peoples in relation to the impacts of climate change and indigenous peoples' right to collective self-determination
A Different World:Ecological Crisis Narratives in the Anthropocene
No full textVERDEN ER IKKE LÆNGERE DEN SAMME tilbyder et nymaterialistisk blik på klimakrisen, som placerer mennesket på niveau med resten af naturen – hverken over eller under. Den igangværende klimakrise kalder på nye teorier og fortællinger, der studerer kulturelle, sociale og politiske problemstillinger fra et økologisk perspektiv. For hvad sker der, hvis vi åbner vores analyser og vores blik op for de mange aktive og mere-end-menneskelige kræfter, som eksisterer både i os selv og i verden omkring os?Interessen for denne nye form for materialisme er ikke forbeholdt samfundsvidenskaben. Kunstnere og forfattere har de senere år også fundet stor inspiration i nymaterialismens sprog og tanker. Og oveni kan en ny generation af regenerative jordbrugere genkende beskrivelserne af jorden under vores fødder og naturen omkring os som levende og uforudsigelig.Denne bog bringer nye og gamle begreber i spil og viser os, hvordan vi med fordel kan trække på begge dele i en verden, der ikke længere er den samme
Why the Turn to Matter Matters:A Response to Post-Marxist Critiques of New Materialism
No full textTheories of new materialism have gained increasing traction in the social and human sciences in recent decades, as thinkers like Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Jane Bennett have reinvigorated the philosophical interest in topics such as the agency of nonhuman matter, the relational nature of existence, and the limitations of anthropocentric forms of inquiry. However, these theories have faced criticism from post-Marxist critical theorists, who argue that theories of new materialism blunt social and capitalist critique and promote obscurity by flattening the world to a single ontological plane. In this article, I argue that these critiques rely on mischaracterizations of new materialist scholarship and that theories of new materialism can in fact help us re-examine – not reject, as their critics suggest – the role of critique, responsibility, and human politics in the context of the Anthropocene and its unfolding ecological crises
Anthropocene stories
No full textThis article discusses three different theoretical narratives about the anthropocene that have gained significant traction within the social science literature in recent years: the Ecomodernist, the eco-Marxist and the New Materialist. In an attempt to move beyond the abstract character of much of the debate around the anthropocene, the article brings these three theoretical narratives into conversation with ethnographic field work carried out in a small rural community on the West Coast of Denmark. By juxtaposing the theoretical narratives with a series of small local stories, through what the anthropologist Anna Tsing has called “a rush of stories,” the article seeks to make two interventions into the debates about the anthropocene. First, it argues that the conceptual openness of the anthropocene, which has led to neologisms such as the capitalocene, the chthulucene and the plantationocene, is in fact part of its strength, not its weakness. As the stories from the field illustrate, the different realities that the three theoretical narratives point to are in fact able to exist alongside each other. Secondly, and due in part to this conceptual openness, the article argues for supplementing the abstract theoretical discussions of the anthropocene with more situated approaches that study how the anthropocene unfolds in a specific time and place. The world of the anthropocene is a myriad of different, local, interrelated and overlapping realities. Relying on a single global narrative about the anthropocene neglects that multiplicity
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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