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Religion and Politics
Get PDFReligious beliefs often determine the life within communities. Therefore, religion often also has political implications and the interrelationship between politics and religiously motivated considerations play an important role for the daily life of many people around the globe. Very often, political leaders also tie their own measures and their respective interpretation to some kind of religious mission or interpretation of the past as well as the future. It is therefore more than important to take a closer look at the intertwined relationship between religion and politics. This issue of Global Humanities intends to do that and therefore spans different geographical and chronological contexts to offer a variety of insights related to this overall topic
Food Porn
Get PDFGlobal Humanities, a biannual, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal in the humanities that is now available for open access (https://altija.com/global-humanities/) is calling for paper proposals for Volume 6, which will deal with food porn, a phenomenon mostly related to social media and the idea of sharing images of food with friends and the broader world.
The phenomenon of food porn offers multiple approaches for the humanities, why we are interested in, but not limited by, the following topics:
food porn semiotics
food porn identities
food porn practices
food porn and class consciousness
historical perspectives on food porn (pre-social media)
food porn and social medi
Global Humanities n. 10 – Aura in the 21st Century
No full text88 years have passed since the first publication of Walter Benjamin’s essay where he firstly proposed the notion of aura. Following the ongoing process of arti- fication of daily life, the problem of the uniqueness of the work of art, as identified by aura, continues to be inspiring for understanding and criticizing the social world.
This issue of Global Humanities proposes the idea that the concept of aura may be considered as an effect of meaning which demands to be managed by social actors in the mediasphere. Such a move enlights the relevance of a proper struggle for “authenticity” to be pursued as an added value of daily life: How do social forces construct such an effect? How do they capitalize on it, in their activity? How does it get recognized and valued
Dining Out
Get PDFDining out – be it for a lunch break, a business dinner, a romantic meeting, or a solitary resolution – stands as a social daily life ritual filled with significance. Its celebration emerges as a moment of self-exposure where the social limen between public and private, individual and collective identity gets constantly negotiated. Such a socializing practice of daily life reveals its power through aesthetical means: endorsing a determined regime of good manners by choosing who to eat with, how to behave and dress, when and what to eat, and where to dine out results in a sensitive and intrinsically political asset, outcome of specific choices at the hand of the individual
Freiheit wagen!
Get PDFDas 21. Jahrhundert beginnt mit zahlreichen Krisen: politische Unterdrückung, nationale Spaltungen, Klimakrise und Corona-Pandemie. Damit wächst auch das revolutionäre Potenzial, die Welt zu verändern. Frank Jacob diskutiert, welche Rolle Revolutionen in diesem Jahrhundert spielen können, wie sie ablaufen und was es zu beachten gilt, um eine moralische Korrumpierung revolutionärer Prozesse zu verhindern. Neben einem analytischen Zehn-Stufen-Modell stellt er grundlegende Aspekte vor, die über Erfolg und Misserfolg von Revolutionen entscheiden, und reflektiert diese mit besonderem Blick auf die Gegenwart
Banzai! And the Others Die—Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking
No full textIn this chapter, Frank Jacob carefully examines another significant manifestation of collective violence in Asian history: the mass atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers against Chinese in the Rape of Nanking in 1937 and 1938. First analyzing at length the contentious historiography and historical evidence surrounding this pivotal episode of collective violence performed by agents of the Japanese state, Jacob then closely examines the violence perpetrated at Nanking from a theoretical perspective, arguing that it displayed both dynamics of state-sponsored macro-violence such as warfare and genocide as well as some qualities of extralegal micro-violence, such as lynching.</p
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
Variations 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
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