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Nellie Wong
Full text linkGilbert, Helen. (2003). Nellie Wong. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166361
Belated Journeys: Ecotourism as a Style of Travel Performance
Full text linkThe author proposes that contemporary Western ecotourism is based on specfic travel modalities that reflect and may even replay aspects of European imperialism, especially as manifested in the exploration and subsequent domestication of distant natural environments and their native populations. This has a twofold purpose: to understand the imperatives underlying ecotourism practices and to identify constraints that have prevented the ecotourism industry's generalised failure to follow the models of ethical and environmentally responsible travel on which it is based
Hysterical Landscape: Louis Nowra's 'Inside the Island'
No full textLouis Nowra's fascination with the physical landscape, and its relation to the interior psychological landscape, has been less evident in his most recent work, in which interior settings feature more prominently than in his plays of the 70s and 80s. One of these earlier works, 'Inside the Island' (1980), depends centrally on a transition from interior to exterior locations, tracing a broad movement from a domestic interior to an external rural landscape. Landscape is constructed in this work as the centre of a complex signifying field, such that its representation brings together a range of other discourses concerning the human body, empire, gender and writing. This complexity of landscape representation, however, also leads to a number of tensions within the play as a whole. For in condemning the colonialist project in Australia, the play also re-inscribes, through landscape, the nature/culture dichotomy which has historically sustained colonialism
Sixty years of the Bible in fiction, an annotated bibliography and analysis of fiction based on the Bible, 1899 1959, 1960
Full text linkGoing 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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