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Pulling threads: Intimate systematicity in The Politics of Exile
No full textThe achievements of Elizabeth Dauphinee\u27s (2013) The Politics of Exile are highlighted by means of two juxtapositions. First, Dauphinee\u27s book invites a contrast to novels because it takes the form of a story. Specifically, Dauphinee\u27s portrait of the vilified \u27Serbs\u27 is compared with how the Taliban are treated in Khalid Hosseini\u27s The Kite Runner and Nadeem Aslam\u27s The Wasted Vigil. Second, The Politics of Exile is examined as it emerges from Dauphinee\u27s efforts to overcome the limits of her more academic work. The advantages of Dauphinee\u27s approach relative to our standard research are presented along five dimensions: the responsibility of closure, the purpose of narration, the transparency of the message, how the work is shown, and the role of generosity. This article critiques Dauphinee\u27s silence on the purpose of travel. It closes by suggesting what social theory can glean from The Politics of Exile. Social theorists can learn how to theorize more systematically, to weigh the relationship between the form and content in writing more judiciously, and to probe the deeper purposes of our intellectual life-work more fully. © The Author(s) 2013
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
Theories of spontaneous disorder
No full textNeorealism relies on an unacknowledged and pessimistic reading of the theory of spontaneous order - developed originally by Adam Smith and other thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment - in order to drive a wedge between action and its intended results. This reading allows neorealists to veil their practical and theoretical commitments to the virtues of anarchy, inequality and hegemony in international society. An examination of theories of spontaneous order reveals, however, that the conclusions of the theory are more likely to follow when agents are knowledgeable about their social context. Knowledgeability implies human reflexivity suggesting that even institutions emerging spontaneously can become infused with human design. Such reflexivity implies not a clear separation but an overlap between intentions and outcomes. This overlap means that: (1) the study of intended action needs to become a required part of international relations theory; and (2) favored international outcomes necessitate an explicit discussion of the values that drive theory and practice. © 1997 Routledge
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