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Choosing Both Faith and Fun: Youth Negotiations of Moral Norms in South Beirut
No full textChallenging both polarized depictions of Muslim youth and scholarship that over-privileges piety as a focal point in Muslims' lives, this article highlights the complexity of the moral worlds of Shi'i youth in Lebanon. Through ethnography of youth choices when going out, we argue that youth practices and discourses of morality are multiple and flexible in their deployments, perhaps especially when it comes to ideas about leisure. This interpretive flexibility may work to redefine ideas about leisure within a framework of religiosity such that some of the rules of piety itself are perceived as flexible. © 2013 Copyright Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis.Adely F, 2009, INT J MIDDLE E STUD, V41, P372, DOI 10.1017-S0020743809091107; Agrama HA, 2010, AM ETHNOL, V37, P2, DOI 10.1111-j.1548-1425.2009.01238.x; [Anonymous], 1987, AMAL SHIA STRUGGLE S; Asad T., 1986, OCCASIONAL PAPERS SE; Bayat Asef, 2010, BEING YOUNG MUSLIM N, P26; Borneman John, 1992, BELONGING 2 BERLINS; Bucholtz M, 2002, ANNU REV ANTHROPOL, V31, P525, DOI 10.1146-annurev.anthro.31.040402.085443; Christiansen Catrine, 2006, NAVIGATING YOUTH GEN, P9; Clarke Morgan, 2009, ISLAM NEW KINSHIP RE; Cole Jennifer, 2007, GENERATIONS GLOBALIZ, P74; Deeb L, 2006, PRINC STUD MUSLIM PO, P1; Griffith R. Marie, 2000, GODS DAUGHTERS EVANG; Hall S., 1975, RESISTANCE RITUALS Y; Harb M., 2010, HEZBOLLAH BANLIEUE V; Hebdige Dick, 1979, SUBCULTURE MEANING S; Herrera Linda, 2009, INT J MIDDLE E STUD, V41, P268; Khosravi S, 2008, CONTEMP ETHNOGR, P1; Mahdavi P., 2009, PASSIONATE UPRISINGS; Mahmood S, 2005, POLITICS OF PIETY: THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL AND THE FEMINIST SUBJECT, P1; Mannheim K., 1952, ESSAYS SOCIOLOGY KNO, P276; Marsden Magnus, 2005, LIVING ISLAM MUSLIM; Masquelier Adeline, 2010, BEING YOUNG MUSLIM N, P226; Melki Jad, 2010, YOUTH ARAB WORLD WOR, V2; MESSICK B, 1986, MAN, V21, P102, DOI 10.2307-2802649; Moors A, 2007, FASH THEORY, V11, P133, DOI 10.2752-136270407x202718; Norton AR, 2007, PRINC STUD MUSLIM PO, P1; Pinto P. G., 2007, COMP STUDIES S ASIA, V27, P109, DOI 10.1215-1089201x-2006-047; Robbins J, 2007, ETHNOS, V72, P293, DOI 10.1080-00141840701576919; Schielke S, 2009, J RELIG AFR, V39, P158, DOI 10.1163-157006609X427814; Schielke Samuli, 2009, J ROYAL ANTHR I, pS24; Schulz DE, 2006, AM ETHNOL, V33, P210, DOI 10.1525-ae.2006.33.2.210; Schulz Dorothea, 2003, J RELIG AFR, V33, P146, DOI 10.1163-15700660360703123; STARRETT G, 1995, AM ANTHROPOL, V97, P51, DOI 10.1525-aa.1995.97.1.02a00090; Swedenburg Ted, 2007, MIDDLE E REPORT, V245, P4; Utas M., 2006, NAVIGATING YOUTH GEN, P31; Wilkins Amy C., 2008, WANNABES GOTHS CHRIS; Winegar Jessica, 2006, CREATIVE RECKONINGS10
Know thy enemy: Hizbullah, 'terrorism' and the politics of perception
No full textThe labelling career of the Lebanese armed group and political party Hizbullah is an interesting case with which to investigate the epistemological consequences of the politics of naming. Having found itself since its inception in the mid-1980s on the receiving end of mainly US and Israeli policy makers' and analysts' scorn for being an archetypical terrorist organisation, Hizbullah has been surprisingly successful in achieving its stated aims and in enduring the verbal and military onslaught against it. Although it is not the intention here to reduce explanations for Hizbullah's durability to discursive politics, this article suggests that both the labelling of Hizbullah as terrorist and, conversely, its identification as a 'lebanonised' political force that is about to make its conversion into an unarmed political party are misleading and incapable of grasping this organisation's complexities. In fact, both 'terrorist' and 'lebanonised' labels produce a quality of knowledge inferior to that produced by Hizbullah's own conceptualisation of its enemies. But most importantly, the debate on Hizbullah's alleged terrorist nature has obscured several of its traits that many should register before passing judgement on it. Our analysis shows that the variety of institutions Hizbullah has been carefully elaborating and readapting over the past two decades in Lebanon operate today as a holistic and integrated network which produce sets of values and meanings embedded in an interrelated religious and political framework - that of the wilayat al-faqih. These meanings are disseminated on a daily basis among Shi'a constituencies through the party's institutionalised networks and serve to mobilise them into 'the society of the Resistance' (mujtamaa' al-muqawama), which is the foundation of the hala al-islamiyya (Islamic sphere) in Lebanon. Accordingly, any prospect of Hizbullah's transformation away from armed 'resistance' should be firmly placed in an analysis of its hegemony among the Shi'a of Lebanon and of the tools it uses to acquire and sustain this status. © 2005 Third World Quarterly.ALAGHA J, 2001, SHARQIYYAT, V13, P47; ALMUSAWI N, 2003, ALSAFIR 0821; BENJAMIN D, 2002, AGE SACRED TERROR, P127; Blanford Nicholas, 2004, MIDDLE E REPORT 0914; BYMAN D, 2003, FOREIGN AFFAIRS NOV; DEEB L, 2003, IN PRESS ENCHANTED M, P33; *DEP STAT, PATT GLOB TERR 2002; EZZEDIN SH, 2002, DAILY STAR 1003; Farah D., 2004, BLOOD STONES SECRET; FARAJ AS, 1986, NEGLECTED DUTY CREED; FAYYAD A, 2003, ALSAFIR 0821; FNAYSH M, 2003, COMMUNICATION 0707; FNEISH M, 2003, COMMUNICATION 0707; GOLDBERG J, 2002, NEW YORKER OCT; HADLEY S, 2002, DAILY STAR 0215; Hage G, 2003, PUBLIC CULTURE, V15, P65, DOI 10.1215-08992363-15-1-65; HAMZEH N, 1993, THIRD WORLD Q, V14, P321; Harb M., 2001, MUNICIPALITES POUVOI, P157; HARIK J, 2004, HIZBOLLAH CHANGING F, P47; HIZBULLAH, 1985, NASS ALRISALA MAFTUH; *ICG, 2003, HIZB REB CAUS, P12; *ICG, 2002, OLD GAM NEW RUL CONF, P16; KAHL M, 2002, WELT 0228; Kepel Gilles, 2000, JIHAD EXPANSION DECL; KRAMER M, 1993, FUNDAMENTALISMS STAT; LEENDERS R, 1994, NETWORKS PRIVILEGE P; MERVIN S, COURANT REFORMISTE M, P69; MUZAHEM H, 2003, HIZBULLAHS FUTURE WA, P8; NASRALLAH, 2002, ALJAZEERA 0214; NASRALLAH, 2002, ALMAJALLA 0330; NASRALLAH, 2004, COMMUNICATION 0125; NASRALLAH, 2002, ALWATAN 0319; NASRALLAH H, 2000, COMMUNICATION 1212; NASRALLAH H, 2000, COMMUNICATION 1130; NASRALLAH H, 2002, COMMUNICATION 0330; NORTON AR, 1999, HIZBALLAH LEBANON EX, P2; POWELL C, 2002, AL NAHAR 0703; PRIEST D, 2002, WASHINGTON POST 0630; QASSEM N, 2002, HIZBULLAH METHODOLOG, P83; QASSEM N, 1996, ALNAHAR 0705; RAAD M, 2003, DAILY STAR 0930; RANSTORP M, 1997, HIZBULLAH LEBANON PO; ROY O, 1999, REV MONDES MUSULMANS, V85, P1; RUBIN M, 2002, NATL REV ONLINE 0701; SAADGHORAYEB A, 2002, HIZBULLAH POLITICS R, P14; SHAMI S, 2001, CAPITAL CITIES ETHNO, P111; *US COUNS FOR REL, 2003, COLL DAM IR FUT US S; *US DEP STAT, PATT GLOB TERR 2001; WARN M, 1999, THESIS STOCKHOLM U; 2002, ALWATAN 0319; 1998, ALANWAR 3916; 2000, ALMUJAHID ALSIY 0521; 1998, ALAHD 1106; 2002, CHRISTIAN SCI M 0715; 1998, ALMASSIRA 0824; 2003, ALNAHAR 033127171
City Debates 2008: Spaces of Faith and Fun
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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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