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Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilkinson Long, Mother of Texas
No full textHistorical narrative of the live of Jane Wilkinson Long, wife of James Long who led a filibustering attempt into Texas in 1819. This work covers her early marriage life in Louisiana and her subsequent life in Texas
“Chaos as Social and Cultural Conflict in Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations and Tabish Khair’s The Bus Stopped”,
No full textIl saggio analizza il tema del chaos sociale e politico nella realtà postcoloniale indiana, cosi' come illustrato in due opere, Between the Assassinations e The Bus Stopped, pubblicate rispettivamente nel 2006 e 2004 dagli scrittori indiani Aravind Adiga e Tabish Khair. Centrali risultano gli eventi della Spartizione dell'India e dei tumulti degli anni Ottanta a seguito dell'assassinio di India Gandhi e di suo figlio Rajiv
Talking with African Writers: Interviews by Jane Wilkinson with African Poets, Playwrights & Novelists
No full textMaking a case for equity initiatives: travelling towards a mirage? gender, leadership and higher education by Tanya Fitzgerald & Jane Wilkinson [book review]
No full text[Book review of: "Travelling towards a mirage? gender, leadership and higher education / by Tanya Fitzgerald & Jane Wilkinson, isbn: 9781921214684, Post Pressed, Mt. Gravatt, Australia, 2010."] Reading this book reminded me of Salman Rushdie’s words upon reading Kipling, who had, said Rushdie, “the power simultaneously to infuriate and to entrance” (Imaginary Homelands, p. 74). Tanya Fitzgerald and Jane Wilkinson offer a feminist reading of the current status of academic women in Australian and New Zealand universities: a view sufficiently grim to require little additional framing or politicising. It is at times the over-egging of the cake that occasionally weakens, rather than enhances, this text, as the authors’ case is made perfectly well without necessary recourse to a feminist paradigm, or peripheral references. As a literary work, this text is parched and frequently over-argued. As a denunciation of the increasingly unbalanced equity of women in the academy, in academic research and in higher education management, it is unforgiving and relentless
Chaos and the Postcolonial: preliminary notes
Get PDFMuch has been said about the connection between chaos theory in science and in recent literature and philosophical thinking, particularly about the way in which they talk to each other in postmodern culture. Since the 1990s, in dialogue with the new science, the humanities have actually worked around a chaotic model of both cultural and individual identity-formation, which appears particularly suited to our late modern times. This essay is motivated by the will to understand what chaos may mean today, and also to ask why looking at chaos may be interesting for postcolonial studies scholars, writers and readers.
In dialogue with chaos theory and with postcolonial critical thought, the essay looks at chaos as "complexity and relation"; as "multiple temporalities and the unpredictable"; and as "a form of artistic lateness for our late-style times"
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
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
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