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Gendered Genital Modifications (GGMo): a universalistic anthropological approach. Response to Catalan and Emilova
No full textMGF/E: which spaces for a critical anthropology? Dialogues, resistances and new opportunities
No full textThis book is the product of the Seminar held in Rome on the 24 and 25 of November 2017, as part of the MAP-FGM project (https://mapfgm.eu). During the seminar the anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, leading exponent of the humanitarian field, medical doctors and jurists, coming from different parts of the world, exchanged their knowledge trying to : re-introducing the FGM issue inside a scientific anthropological framework, seeking to widen the theme to body modifiability, not only women’s bodies, and proceeding from historicization and the acknowledgment of subjectivities; criticising the approaches exclusively grounded on medicine, as with other forms of criminalization, examining the connection with the other disciplines and their knowledge potential; finally, opening the issue to uncommon geographical fields, both in Africa and Asia. In line with the proposal of a public anthropology, our main objective has been establishing the conditions for building a socio-ethno-anthropological gaze on the social gender constructions and on the biopolitics on/of the bodies, by making emerge the strengths but, most of all, the weaknesses, of the medical and regulatory gazes, which, on their part, call into question an anthropological vocabulary which does not pertain to them, and risk to produce effects opposed to the ones wished, that is the abandonment of these practices. With contributions of: Omar Abdulcadir, Jean-Loup Amselle, Esther Ayuk, Franca Bimbi, Lucrezia Catania, Giovanna Cavatorta, Gily Coene, Ricardo Falcão, Michela Fusaschi, Irwan Hidayana, Sara Johnsdotter, Bianca Pomeranzi, Ismail Guedi Sougeuh, Michela Villani
Voix de femmes et pratiques des autres. Pour une anthropologie publique des « traitements » de modification des génitaux féminins (MoGF)
No full textFGM/C: from medicine to critical anthropology
No full textThis book is the product of the Seminar MAP-FGM (https://mapfgm.eu, Rome, 24-25 Nov. 2017), where anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, exponents of NGO, gynaecologists and jurists exchanged their knowledge by pursuing several aims: re-introducing the FGM/C issue inside an anthropological framework, seeking to widen the theme to body modifiability, not only women’s bodies, and proceeding from historicization and the acknowledgment of subjectivities; criticising the biomedical approaches, as other forms of criminalization, examining the connection with the other disciplines and their knowledge potential; finally, opening the issue to uncommon geographical fields, both in Africa and Asia. The main objective has been establishing the conditions for building a socio-ethno-anthropological gaze on the social gender constructions and on the biopolitics on/of the bodies, by making emerge the strengths but, most of all, the weaknesses, of the medical and regulatory gazes, which, on their part, call into question an anthropological vocabulary which does not pertain to them, and risk to produce effects opposed to the ones wished, that is the abandonment of these practices
Au coeur de l'ethnie. Ethnies, tribalisme et Etat en Afrique
No full textTroppo disinvoltamente richiamata dal mondo della comunicazione, utilizzata impropriamente nel lessico dell’emergenza e dell’umanitario, la nozione di etnia, già presente nel discorso coloniale, è stata ambiguamente riconvocata nel campo politico e nel dibattito pubblico del nostro paese solo dall’inizio degli anni Novanta, quando i processi di transizione dell’Est europeo e il lungo conflitto nella ex Iugoslavia ne hanno drammaticamente evidenziato il potere di mobilitazione.
Questo volume è frutto di un lungo lavoro collettivo che ha preso le mosse proprio dal rifiuto dell’abuso di espressioni come “etnia”, “conflitto etnico” o “lotta tribale” e dall’esigenza di riaffrontare criticamente i termini del discorso identitario, a partire dall’analisi delle contraddizioni della realtà africana contemporanea.
Partendo da casi emblematici come il Mali, la Costa d’Avorio, il Ruanda e il Congo, i saggi di Jean-Loup Amselle, Jean Bazin, Jean-Pierre Dozon, Jean-Pierre Chrétien, Claudine Vidal ed Elikia M’Bokolo criticano una visione «primordialista» e falsamente oggettiva della nozione di identità etno-culturale, proponendo un completo ribaltamento di prospettiva, per analizzare la costruzione degli spazi politici africani e delle categorie identitarie alla luce della loro storicità, in quanto elementi che maturano già nel quadro della «situazione coloniale» e poi nella realtà post-coloniale.
Gli autori contribuiscono ad animare il dibattito intorno alla costruzione di una scienza sociale africanista, in cui il canone di identità è ridefinito come genere al tempo stesso plurale e singolare, postulando una vera creolità di ogni gruppo etnico e linguistico
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
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