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Fear in the Western Societies? An historical approach to Occidental construction of the "fear"
No full textLa paura esercita un ruolo importante nelle società umane. Il testo propone un percorso storiografico e metodologico in riferimento al presente contesto internazionale e in chiave interdisciplinare. Si analizzano diverdsi fenomeni, tra i quali in particolare la crisi del società identificate come occidental
Scrivere la guerra. Corso avanzato di Lingua e cultura araba per lauree specialistiche (units 1-6, 9-10, 20; 19.3, 19.4, 19.5)
No full textIl volume mette a disposizione degli studenti di lauree magistrali i risultati delle ricerche degli autori su questioni letterarie, sociali e politiche relative al mondo arabo contemporane
Informal Power in the Greater Middle East Hidden Geographies
No full textOver the last decade or so, academic and non-academic observers have focussed mainly, if not exclusively on the institutions and places of formal power in the Greater Middle East, depicting politics in the region as a small area limited to local authoritarian rulers.
In contrast, this book aims to explore the ‘hidden geographies’ of power, i.e. the political dynamics developing inside, in parallel to, and beyond institutional forums; arguing that these hidden geographies play a crucial role, both in support of and in opposition to official power. By observing less frequented spaces of power, co-option, and negotiation, and particularly by focusing on the interplay between formal and informal power, this interdisciplinary collection provides new insights in the study of the intersection between policy-making and practical political dynamics in the Greater Middle East.
Contributing a fresh perspective to a much-discussed topic, Informal Power in the Greater Middle East will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and those interested in the politics of the region
Shout out/Shut up!
No full textThe academic and public debate on stereotypical representations of Islam, on Islamophobia or ‘fear of Islam’ has been growing internationally in the last couple of decades. Much less attention has been devoted, so far, to ways Muslims act and react to these representations, do create their own representations. The case of Italy is rather peculiar both in terms of lateness in the debate on representations of Islam and Muslims as well as in the still scarce interest in listening to and engaging with Muslims’ multiple voices and representations, despite a few recent contributions. They are often called and socially recognized as a minority, while they are not even juridically recognised by the State. In this chapter, we will be focusing on the self-representations and the fears emerging from within the Muslim communities in Italy today. We will rely on a corpus of primary sources made of interviews realised within the activities of PriMED project (www.primed_miur.it) – of which we were part – together with structured interviews with a sample of Italian Muslim leaders and young Muslim people
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
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