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Increasing Plurality and Neglected Pluralism: Religious Diversity in the Suburbs of Rome
The chapter offers an interpretation of the social and political constraints that affect the way religious diversity is addressed and prevented from blossoming into a pluralistic shared frame in Italy. We move from the renewed attention devoted to the ‘spatialization of religion’ with the aim of offering a contextualized understanding of ‘lived religious diversity’ in the urban space of Rome and a critical reading of the normative – cultural and political – responses that are emerging towards this phenomenon. Drawing on the data collected within the research project NEW2US at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the analysis shows how, although attracted to a space – Rome – that is ideally generous to the expression of ‘The Religious’, recently established minorities must struggle hard to carve out actual living spaces for themselves end are mostly segregated at the margins of the city. The ethnography that has been run within the south-east area of Tor Sapienza digs into the deep and fatal intertwinement between radical alterity, marginality and social tensions in order to give a possible explanation of the reason why in the Italian case religious diversity is still inhibited from triggering cultural and social renewal and a political reflexive awareness
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
Refugees welcome?: difference and diversity in a changing Germany/ edited by Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Making germans and non-germans -- Language as battleground : "speaking" the nation, lingual citizenship and diversity management in postunification Germany / Uli Linke -- Diversity and unity : political and conceptual answers to experiences of differences and diversities in Germany / Friedrich Heckmann -- Jews, muslims and the ritual male circumcision debate : religious diversity and social inclusion in Germany / Gokce Yurdakul -- Potential for change -- Islam, vernacular culture and creativity in Stuttgart / Petra Kuppinger -- "Neukolln is where I live; it's now there I'm from" : children of migrants navigating belonging in a rapidly changing urban space in Berlin / Carola Tize and Ria Reis -- The post-migrant paradigm / Naika Foroutan -- Refugee encounters -- New year's eve, sexual violence and moral panics : ruptures and continuities in Germany's integration regime / Kira Kosnick -- Solidarity with refugees: negotiations of proximity and memory / Serhat Karakayali -- Negotiating cultural difference in Dresden's Pegida movement and Berlin's refugee church / Jan-Jonathan Bock -- New initiatives and directions -- Interstitial agents : negotiating migration and diversity in theatre / Jonas Tinius -- Articulating a noncitizen politics : nation-state pity versus democratic inclusion / Damani J. Partridge -- The refugees-welcome movement : a new form of political action / Werner Schiffauer -- Concluding reflection: refugee futures and the politics of belonging / Sharon Macdonald -- Index.1 online resourc
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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