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Annex
No full textThis is an annex to the articles in the special issue on Nordic Legal Education: A Situated Gothenburg Perspective and contains of tables and descriptions of 17 Nordic LLM. programmes
Democratic Confederalist Approaches to Addressing Patriarchal Violence Within the Justice System
No full textIn the midst of an ongoing civil war, the people of North and East Syria have been building a society based on the ideas of direct-democratic and decentralized self-administration. Differently put, they have embraced the principles and ideas of democratic confederalism, which is the political ideology developed by Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PPK, Kurdistan Workers’ Party) founder Abdullah Öcalan. The purpose of this essay is to give an overview of the governance system of NES for the purpose of demonstrating the democratic confederalist approach to addressing patriarchal violence. In addition, the ambition is to assess the traditional notion of law and punishment as a solution for dealing with patriarchal violence, or, as Kropotkin would describe it, “a remedy for evil.” In addition to the more traditional and hierarchical court systems of contemporary societies, there are reconciliation committees in North and East Syria which seek to eliminate patriarchal violence through means of rehabilitation rather than punishment. In conclusion, NES serves as a fairly successful example of how patriarchal violence can be addressed within a justice system that is based on principles of restorative and transformative justice. © 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Imagining the Commune - Democratic confederalist approaches to law and conflict resolution
Get PDFIn the midst of an ongoing civil war, the people of North and East Syria have been building society based on the ideas of direct-democratic and decentralized self-administration. Differently put, they have embraced the principles and ideas of democratic confederalism, which is the political ideology developed by PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan. Security forces, schools, hospitals, local councils, reconciliation committees, courts, and many other institutions have been set up by the local self-administrations in North and East Syria. In doing so, the people have managed to create an oasis of relative peace and stability in an otherwise hostile environment.
This thesis seeks to determine the characteristics of law and conflict resolution systems in North and East Syria, and assess to what extent they have been influenced by the ideological development of the PKK. For this purpose, Marxist, anarchist and legal pluralist understandings of law and justice are used. The scope of study is limited to the social contracts of North and East Syria, its various legislative and decision-making bodies, as well as the courts and reconciliation committees. The conclusion of this thesis is that law and conflict resolution mechanisms in North and East Syria are characterized by legal pluralist understandings of law as well as restorative justice approaches to justice. It is established that the legal system of North and East Syria can be described as a strong legal pluralist system of law containing some elements of weak legal pluralism. Policy-making bodies such as local councils, as well as the reconciliation committees, are primarily organized, self-administered and democratically controlled on the local level. The reconciliation committees and their processes are particularly consensus-oriented, whereas the People’s Courts are more oriented towards retributive justice. It has been shown that these institutions of law and conflict resolution have been influenced by the political ideology of democratic confederalism, which advocates decentralized decision-making processes within self-administered communities
Annex
Get PDFThis is an annex to the articles in the special issue on Nordic Legal Education: A Situated Gothenburg Perspective and contains of tables and descriptions of 17 Nordic LLM. programmes
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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