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Border City as Subject Matter: Ethnographic Reflections from a Maritime Borderland in Indonesia
Get PDFThis study examines Tanjungbalai, a border city on the eastern coast of Sumatra, as an active producer of border practices rather than a passive periphery of the Indonesian state. Using long-term ethnographic fieldwork involving participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentary analysis, the research reveals how residents negotiate and reinterpret state boundaries in their everyday lives. The findings show that the city’s spatial orientation is fundamentally maritime: informal ports (tangkahan) function as the true centers of mobility and trade, embodying deliberate strategies of spatial illegibility that resist state surveillance. The informal economies of undocumented motorcycles and used clothing further demonstrate how activities deemed illegal by the state become locally licit within a moral economy shaped by survival and limited formal opportunities. Dense transnational kinship networks linking Indonesia and Malaysia act as critical urban infrastructure, circulating capital, labor, and protection across the strait. At the same time, the region’s porosity has enabled the rise of large-scale narcotics trafficking and digital fraud, positioning the city within broader criminal geographies. Overall, the study argues that Tanjungbalai is a dynamic social laboratory where legality, mobility, and identity are continuously contested and remade
Unraveling cultural economies and power dynamics: An in-depth anthropological study of anchovy fishing in north sumatran coastal commumity
No full textThis study explores the power dynamics in the anchovy fishing system of Tanjungbalai, North Sumatra, focusing on the interactions between tekong (ship captains), crew members, and midleman. Using an ethnographic approach, researchers immersed themselves in the fishing community, conducting participatory observations, in-depth interviews, and gathering secondary data from transaction records and debt contracts. The findings reveal that power relations are heavily influenced by market mechanisms, with middlemen emerging as dominant figures in the production chain. By controlling prices and distribution, middlemen extract surplus value from the catch without providing fishing gear or participating directly in the fishing process. This situation is exacerbated by a debt capital system, where fishermen borrow start-up capital from middlemen and repay it with their catch. This system perpetuates a cycle of debt, forcing fishermen to remain dependent on middlemen. The research concludes that this production model creates a “vicious circle,” trapping fishermen in economic dependence and declining welfare while middlemen continue to consolidate their power
Banda Bekali and local knowledge in flood management: 100 years of social and environmental interaction in Padang City
No full textFloods have plagued Padang City for centuries, with severe events recorded almost annually between 1890 and the early 20th century, peaking in 1904. The damages during that period reportedly reached two million guilders. In response, the Dutch East Indies colonial government constructed the Banda Bekali canal system to mitigate flood risks. While the canal has reduced the severity of flooding, it remains a persistent issue in the city. This study, marking over 100 years since Banda Bekali’s establishment, examines the canal’s role in flood management. Using a qualitative-descriptive approach, the research focuses on the canal’s sections in Padang, selecting informants through purposive sampling based on age, gender, and societal roles. Data collection includes observations, in-depth interviews, and literature reviews. The study aims to understand the community’s interaction with the canal and the local knowledge surrounding flood control. It explores the Minangkabau people’s flood and disaster management systems and reflects on the 100-year history of Banda Bekali as a mitigation strategy. Through triangulation, this research hopes to contribute to improved flood disaster management strategies in Padang, drawing on both historical analysis and contemporary local knowledge
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
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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