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Cittadinanza e guerra nell'Est della Repubblica Democratica del Congo
Full text linkCitizenship and war in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Since the early Nineties the eastern
regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo are at the core of an extremely violent and
complex conflict. It is a multidimensional war in which several factors contribute to the
recurrence of violence. One of these factors is the conflict over citizenship between local
ethnic groups, who consider themselves autochthonous, and the Rwandofones communities
(Banyarwanda and Banyamulenge). This article explores the genesis and the evolution
of this conflict in order to underline the high degree of political manipulation behind the
issue of citizenship in Eastern Congo. As in other African contexts, in Eastern Congo political
leaders have fomented ethnic and national divisions in order to perpetuate their power.
After years of negotiations a new law on citizenship was approved, but due to its ambiguity
there is much room for further manipulation and fuel for new conflicts
Dal genocidio rwandese alla guerra in Congo. Riflessioni sul ruolo del Rwanda nella prima guerra mondiale africana
No full textIl genocidio rwandese dell’aprile 1994 è stato il detonatore della guerra nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo (all’epoca Zaire), uno dei conflitti più violenti e mortiferi degli ultimi cinquant’anni su scala mondiale. Il Rwanda, sotto il governo del Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), ha avuto un ruolo centrale in questa guerra e continua tuttora a fomentarla. In questo articolo intendo innanzitutto esplorare la strategia comunicativa utilizzata dal governo di Kigali per legittimare il proprio intervento militare in Congo. Passerò poi ad esaminare l’interpretazione più diffusa del conflitto congolese, ossia quella che considera il traffico illegale delle risorse minerarie, in cui il Rwanda è implicato, la causa principale, se non addirittura l’unica, della guerra. Per quanto tale lettura ˗ molto radicata fra la popolazione congolese e condivisa da molte ONG che intervengono nelle zone di conflitto ˗ abbia senza dubbio un fondamento nella realtà, risulta al contempo riduttiva e semplicistica poiché sottovaluta le dimensioni locali e nazionali della guerra. Inoltre, essa finisce col condizionare le politiche e gli interventi internazionali volti alla soluzione del conflitto, compromettendone l’efficacia. Infine prenderò in considerazione l’operato della Nazioni Unite, mostrando come questa istituzione rispecchi le profonde divergenze della Comunità Internazionale per quanto concerne la valutazione del ruolo del Rwanda nella guerra congolese, cosa che ha paralizzato la sua azione
Etnografie della guerra e del post-guerra
No full textQuesto numero di Antropologia propone una serie di articoli frutto di ricerche etnografiche condotte in alcuni contesti di guerra e di post-guerra: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Costa d’Avorio, Somalia, Colombia, Israele-Palestina e Bosnia. Si tratta di ricerche focalizzate sulla contemporaneità e che tuttavia non tralasciano la dimensione storica dei conflitti in questione. L'approccio etnografico evidenzia il continuum fra guerra e pace e la dicotomia guerra/post-guerra risulta quindi meno netta, al punto che i due momenti sono in alcuni contesti indistinguibili. Il continuum fra guerra e pace. Inoltre l'attenzione peri contesti locali dei conflitti porta alla formulazioni di quadri eziologici complessi in cui i flussi continui fra contesti locali e contesti globali ridefiniscono in continuazione la natura delle guerre
Introduzione. Guerra, post-guerra e ricerca etnografica
Full text linkGuerra, post-guerra e ricerca etnografic
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
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