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Carcerals and Olympic Masculinities in Christos Tsiolkas’s Barracuda
Full text linkIn an effort to draw attention to the masculine crisis occurring in the era of globalisation, this paper elaborates on Australian author Christos Tsiolkas’s novel Barracuda and the central character’s self-discipline and struggle into reaching Olympic achievement. The course of his rise as a potential Olympic athlete but also his fall and crisis within an institutional framework of disciplines, which often symbolically turn into nightmarish prisons, resonate with Michel Foucault’s 1975 work Discipline and Punish. The latter’s ideas about discipline and the “carceral” will help interpret Tsiolkas’s novel and further understand how the Olympics work as a mechanism of discipline and compliance towards a kind of hegemonic masculinity and its inevitable crisis
Josep M. Armengol, Masculinities in Black and White: Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature
Full text link“One cannot be black without blacks and without the constant disavowal of his relation to them” states Judith Butler, as cited by Armengol in this last chapter of Masculinities in Black and White (134), and it is this affirmation that would probably constitute the case of every discourse upon black and white masculinities in this book. Armengol’s study, winner of the 2015 Javier Coy Research Award for Best Monograph (SAAS-Spanish Association for American Studies), explores hegemonic structure..
Masculinidad y violencia en "Maté a un Tipo" de Daniel Dalmaroni. Lo argentino y lo global.
No full textThe present essay delves into the representations of masculinity and its connection with violence. It attempts to explore the idea of violence as a component of hegemonic masculinity (a term introduced by the Australian sociologist Raewyn W. Connel, 1995) in the play Maté a un Tipo (2006) by the Argentinian playwright Daniel Dalmaroni. Through the absurd and grotesque depictions of violence that are made explicit in the text as well as the character dynamics I explore the multifaceted aspects of masculinity and its association with violence both as a man’s privilege and a social phenomenon. The analysis reveals the complexity and precariousness of masculinity as presented in Maté a un Tipo, and acknowledges that it is both shaped by local cultural norms and global representations. Given the cultural gap still existing among several societies around certain ideas and subjectivities (such as that of masculinity-ies), despite today’s globalization, Argentina seems to serve as a good bridging example due its society’s hybridity, as supported by Argentinian anthropologist Eduardo Archetti (2016). The article concludes with proposing further questioning of masculinities and cross-cultural comparisons in order for further insight to be acquired around men’s lives and identities within a global context.El Presente articulo profundiza en las representaciones de la masculinidad y su coneción con la violencia. Intenta explorar la idea de la violencia como componente de la masculinidad hegemónica (término introducido por la socióloga Raewyn Connell, 1995) en la obra Maté a un Tipo (2006) del argentino dramaturgo Daniel Dalmaroni. A través de las representaciones absurdas y grotescas de los personajes y sus actos violentos que se hacen explícitos en el texto, al igual que la dinámica entre los personajes, se exploran los aspectos multifacéticos de la masculinidad y su asociación con la violenciacomo "privilegio del hombre" y fenómeno social. El análisis revela la complejidad y la precariedad de la masculinidad tal como se presenta en Maté a un Tipo y reconoce que está moldeada por las normas culturales locales y las representaciones globales. Dada la persistente brecha cultural entre diversas sociedades en relación a ciertas ideas y subjetividades como la masculinidad'es, a pesar de la actual globalización, Argentina pareve ejemplificar un puente debido a la 'hibridez' de su sociedad, como apoya el antropólogi argentino Eduardo Archetti (2016). El artículo concluye proponiendo un mayor cuestionamiento de las masculinidades y las comparaciones interculturales para que se adquiera una mayor comprensión de las vidas e identidades de los hombres dentro de un contexto global
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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