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Gandhi and the re-orientation of modern political theory
No full textIn this article, I am engaged in the activity of describing what I think are certain modern political problems whose solution, according to me, requires the infusion of certain Gandhian ideas. My method is different from the interpretive method which when engaging with the ideas of a thinker of the past thinks its job is merely to describe the historical and political context in which those ideas found their expression. My method is also different from another technique which lifts different ideas from the past and ‘applies’ them to modern problem sets. My approach, to be specific, will be one of introducing Gandhi’s political idea of satyagraha, and its attendant concepts into a different discursive tradition - a tradition that gets its mileage from critiquing liberalism and situating itself as a ‘pragmatic’ solution to the impasse created by modern political framework. I will also be injecting the modern Western critique with my understanding of Greek and Stoic ideas of askesis (and its Foucauldian inflections) and how self-generation and embodied existence are mutually imbricated at the conceptual level. The rest of the paper is an attempt to show how and why the Gandhian idea of satyagraha needs to be resuscitated as a political concept
Introduction: Liberalism and its Encounters in India
No full textIt is still a moot question whether there is something called an ‘Indian’ liberal theory. The term ‘Indian’ becomes dubious not only because ‘India’ has been geographically indeterminate but also parts of India, civilizationally, have had strong political sub-cultures (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Shaivite, Vaishanavite, Islamic etc.) (Kulke & Rothermund, 2016, pp. 50–108; see generally on the question of origin of India, Asif, 2020) as well as been part of different empires that have stretched in the West to Greece and in the East to places as far as modern-day Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand (Allen, 2019; Karttunen, 1997; see generally, Pollock, 2009). Moreover, India, because of its central location in a naval trade route that stretched from the Middle East to the far East, witnessed the traffic of different cultures across its land and assimilated different traditions (Subramanian, 1996; see generally, Subrahmanyam, 2005). But still many intellectual and historical accounts of modern-day India take the inescapable, traumatic and recent event of the Partition between India and Pakistan which happened in 1947, as the politically charged reference point that requires explaining why and how India became a historical entity (Bayly, 2012; Devji, 2013; Jalal, 1985; Pandey, 2001). This is quite natural because after all the one modern-day event which has shaken the political consciousness of the Indian subcontinent in recent times, and still continues to play a major role in local geopolitics, is the event of partition. From a temporal perspective, taking the Partition as the climax of the modern Indian story has the virtue that at least the historical description will be up to date. But on the other hand, a necessary consequence of taking Partition as a major constituting factor in modern political consciousness is that subsequent political theorizations tend to look at themselves as intellectual and sometimes therapeutic exercises to come to terms with this traumatic event in our collective consciousness. If we were able to, counter-factually, raise ourselves above the din of history and look at things sub specie aeternitatis then we might realize that the choice of any historical turning point becomes quite arbitrary. In that case, one ought to become indifferent as to whether one takes the Partition or the Sepoy’s Mutiny (1857) or the Battle of Plassey (1757) or the First Battle of Panipat (1526) or the Battle of Raichur (1520) or even the mythical defeat of Ravana in the hands of Ram as the start of Indian political consciousness
Liberalism and its encounters in India: Some interdisciplinary approaches
No full textThis book explores the future of liberalism in India. It moves away from traditional approaches and draws upon resources from other disciplines – those subjects which some might think don’t strictly fall under political science or theory – like anthropology, literature, philosophy — to critically engage with the condition of late capitalist modernity in India.
The essays in the volume trace liberalism's journey through modern Indian history to give us a new standpoint to understand current debates and also point to some internal contradictions of Indian liberalism.
The volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of political science, especially political theory, and South Asian studies
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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