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Displacement, Integration and Identity in the Postcolonial World
Get PDFDefining the relationship between displaced populations and the nation state is a fraught historical process. The Partition of India in 1947 provides a compelling example, yet markedly little attention has been paid to the refugee communities produced. Using the case of the displaced ‘Urdu-speak- ing minority’ in Bangladesh, this article considers what contemporary dis- courses of identity and integration reveal about the nature and boundaries of the nation state. It reveals that the language of ‘integration’ is embedded in colonial narratives of ‘population’ versus ‘people-nation’ which structure exclusion not only through language and ethnicity, but poverty and social space. It also shows how colonial and postcolonial registers transect and overlap as colonial constructions of ‘modernity’ and ‘progress’ fold into religious discourses of ‘pollution’ and ‘purity’. The voices of minorities navigating claims to belonging through these discourses shed light on a ‘nation-in-formation’: the shifting landscape of national belonging and the complicated accommodations required
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
Representation of forced migrants: a case study of the east bengali migrants to West Bengal
No full textThe paper wishes to address one of the key themes of the volume—the representation of the self and the other. The theme will be studied in the backdrop of the forced migration from East Bengal (present Bangladesh) to West Bengal (in India) following the vivisection of British India into two nation-states—India and Pakistan—in 1947. The event triggered off large-scale cross-border migration on the Bengal and Punjab sector in India, with as the surging tide of uprooted mass lashing the shores of these two states. Concentrating on the Bengal side, the paper will try to capture the many-faceted representations of the migrants through the lens of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’; the guest and the host, i.e. the local people of West Bengal and the migrants from across the border. Culling information from Government documents, autobiographies, oral interviews and memoirs, the paper will focus on how each perceived the other and whether more than half a century and subsequent generations later such perceptions have undergone any change.The representation of the ‘Bangals’, as the Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan are popularly referred to as by the ‘Ghatis’ (Bengali Hindus of West Bengal), in the latter’s psyche, too, is multi-faceted—sympathy towards the migrants, at being uprooted from their ancestral home, antagonism at being ‘the Government’s favored son’ in terms of job reservations and financial help which in turn fostered the feeling of ‘outsiders infringing on our rights, occupying our lands and making life miserable for us.’ Coming towards the other end of the spectrum—how did the migrants view themselves? Did they, too, consider themselves as unjust victims of the political power-play? Did they, too, view the Government as the benevolent patriarch and accept the help offered to them without so much of a whimper? Did they view the local people as cold and indifferent? In other words did they subscribe to the representations of the Government and the locals or did they construct an identity of their own? These are some of the aspects of representation of forced displacement of the Bengali Hindus from across the international border, which have been dealt with in the course of this paper.Le présent article souhaite aborder l’un des thèmes clés du numéro thématique, celui de la représentation du soi et de l’autre. Ce thème sera étudié sous l’angle de la migration forcée de la population du Bengale de l’Est (le Bangladesh actuel) au Bengale de l’Ouest (Inde), qui fait suite à la division de l’Inde britannique en deux États-nations (Inde, Pakistan) en 1947. Cet événement a déclenché une migration transfrontalière à grande échelle vers les régions du Bengale et du Punjab de l’Inde, alors qu’une marée d’individus déracinés vint fouetter les rives de ces deux États. Cet article s’intéresse avant tout à l’histoire du Bengale. Il tentera de rendre compte des multiples facettes des représentations des migrants à travers le prisme du soi et de l’autre. Il s’agira de dépeindre les représentations de l’« invité » et de l’« hôte », celles des migrants en provenance de l’autre côté de la frontière et celles des populations locales du Bengale de l’Ouest.S’inspirant d’informations obtenues à même des documents gouvernementaux, des entrevues orales et des mémoires, cet article focalise son attention sur la façon dont chacun perçoit l’autre et si, plus d’un demi-siècle plus tard, au gré des générations, ces perceptions se transforment.Les représentations des « Bangals », comme les Bengalis hindous du Pakistan de l’Est sont populairement appelés par les « Gathis » (Bengalis hindous du Bengale de l’Ouest), par les « Gathis » possèdent de multiples facettes : la sympathie relative envers les migrants en lien avec le déracinement qu’ils ont vécu; l’antagonisme généré par le fait qu’ils sont « les fils favoris du gouvernement », singulièrement en ce qui concerne les emplois qui leur sont réservés et l’aide financière qu’ils reçoivent, un antagonisme qui génère le sentiment que des « étrangers compromettent nos droits, qu’ils occupent nos terres et qu’ils nous rendent la vie difficile ».À l’autre extrémité du spectre, des questions se posent : comment les migrants se percevaient-ils eux-mêmes? Se considéraient-ils comme des victimes injustes des rapports de force politiques? Percevaient-ils le gouvernement comme un patriarche bienveillant et acceptaient-ils l’aide qui leur était offerte sans protester? Percevaient-ils les populations locales comme froides et indifférentes? En d’autres termes, souscrivaient-ils aux représentations que le gouvernement et les populations locales portaient sur eux ou construisaient-ils leur propre identité?Ce sont là quelques-uns des aspects de la représentation du déplacement forcé des Hindous du Bengale par delà la frontière internationale qui ont été traités dans le cadre de notre article
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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