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Increasing plurality and neglected pluralism. Religious diversity in the suburbs of Rome
No full textThe chapter offers an interpretation of the social and political constraints that affect the way religious diversity is addressed and prevented from blossoming into a pluralistic shared frame in Italy. We move from the renewed attention devoted to the 'spatialization of religion’ with the aim of presenting a contextualized understanding of ‘lived religious diversity’ in the urban space of Rome and critical reading of the normative – cultural and political – responses that are emerging around this phenomenon. Drawing on the data collected within the research project NEW2US at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the analysis shows how, although attracted to a space – Rome –that is ideally generous towards the expression of ‘the religious’, recently established minorities struggle to carve out living spaces for themselves, and mostly remain segregated along the city’s margins. The ethnography that has been undertaken within the south-east area of Tor Sapienza digs into the deep and fatal intertwinement between radical alterity, marginality, and social tensions in order to give a possible explanation as to why in the Italian case religious pluralism is not yet entirely legitimated to consolidate as a means of action in the social and political sphere. Multiple religious perspectives are there to stay and their visibility is more and more evident. What is still lacking is a shared significance of that pluralism. Although in Rome it is a rather new phenomenon, the cases discussed in this chapter show that religious pluralism is conceived under a mainly religious/secularist dichotomy, either as a loosely knit pattern of competing revelations or as the sheer fragmented survival of a lost enchanted world
When Homogeneity calls for Super-Diversity: Rome as a Religious Global City
Full text linkThis article addresses the way religious diversity is ‘taking place’ in Rome. In particular, it
brings some religious manifestations into a broader understanding of the diversification of
religious spaces in the city. Instead of seeing diversity as an unintended consequence of
global flows, we trace it back to a sound religious spatial identity. Ever since globalization
was set in motion, Rome has functioned as an attracting field of visibility for established
religions. At the same time, the city has provided a shared grammar for inflecting diversity
into religious idioms. Religious super-diversity as seen in Rome is the combination of a strong
local religious identity that acts as a stage where old actors hope to be invited to give new
performances and the audience itself is incessantly pushed to tread the boards. The article
concludes with a tentative hypothesis that super-diversity may yield to postsecular modes
of social lif
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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