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'There is no point of departure': the many trajectories of Doreen Massey
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Anti-Colonialism, Subaltern Anti-Fascism and the Contested Spaces of Maritime Organising
No full textThis chapter contributes to recent debates on the distinctive articulations of maritime spaces and organising and uses it to probe the relation between anti-fascist internationalisms and subaltern politics. It does this through engaging with the political trajectories of Black seafarers from the Caribbean and West Africa who were in contact with anti-colonial agitators such as George Padmore and were integral to organisations such as the London-based Negro Welfare Association (NWA). The chapter engages in particular with activities connected to the ports of Cardiff, London and North Shields which were significant in relation to various transnational political networks around anti-fascism and anti-colonialism. It argues that some of the forms of organising shaped in relation to these ports offers potential for thinking about the global connections and trajectories that shaped anti-fascisms and some of the ‘subaltern lives’ that were articulated through such political activity. Through so doing the chapter makes a broader contribution to thinking about the contested dynamics between anti-colonialism, anti-fascism and left internationalisms
Introduction: Towards a global history of anti-fascism
No full textOn 7 October 1934, a major street battle between fascists and anti-fascists took place in the centre of Sao Paulo. It became a landmark for Brazilian anti-fascism and is commonly remembered as the ‘See Square Battle’. This chapter initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world. It seeks to explore the historical and intellectual implications of bringing together cases and examples from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Scandinavia, Spain, the Middle East, Ethiopia, South Africa, India and Australia. All too often anti-fascism is understood as a monolith, mainly connected to Stalinism or Soviet communism, which grossly misrepresents the varieties of anti-fascist resistance. Most international histories of anti-fascism are based on European thinkers and activists, and partly as a result a serious analysis of the intersections and commonalities between fascism and colonialism are all too seldom
Beyond a Boundary at Fifty
No full textA major reassessment of C. L. R. James's 1963 classic, Beyond a Boundary. This essay offers a way of reading the text in the 21st century, demonstrating its ongoing relevance and its importance within the current global political climate
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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