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Laborde (Cécile). La Confrérie layenne et les Lébou du Sénégal. Islam et culture traditionnelle en Afrique
No full textTriaud Jean-Louis. Laborde (Cécile). La Confrérie layenne et les Lébou du Sénégal. Islam et culture traditionnelle en Afrique. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°96, 1996. pp. 101-102
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
What’s the problem with symbolic religious establishment? The alienation and symbolic equality accounts
No full textDebates about politics and religion in political philosophy have for a long time assumed that religious establishment is problematic. Only recently has political philosophers started to discuss this again. One result of these new discussions is a more nuanced conception of religious establishment showing that institutional links between state and organized religion can be ‘moderate’ or ‘modest’. Such forms of establishment are mostly symbolic, respect freedom of religion and do not involve forms of distributive injustice. It then becomes less clear whether and why such forms of religious establishment are problematic. In this paper I articulate and discuss two accounts sometimes invoked but not systematically formulated or discussed in the literature for why even symbolic forms of establishment are problematic, namely what I call the alienation account and the symbolic equality account. I argue that these two accounts are importantly different, since they have different implications and face different problems. The chapter articulates and explores the axiological assumptions and normative principles underlying the two accounts. This investigation raises a number of challenges that critics of religious establishment who premise their criticism on these accounts will have to deal with.In this chapter I examine two possible reasons, which are prominent butoften not systematically discussed in the literature, for thinking even purelysymbolic establishment problematic. These are considerations of alienationand symbolic equality. I am only concerned with ways in which establishmentmight be normatively problematic even if it does not infringe on religiousfreedom and does not involve material injustices in other respects
Establishing a political claim to leisure
Full text linkFrom operating public parks to hosting sporting events, liberal states frequently legislate on leisure. Despite this, liberal political theorists rarely consider what leisure is, why it is important, or when state initiatives dedicated towards leisure are justified. Insofar as they do, they generally think about leisure in terms of free time, providing only a limited resource for answering many of the important questions surrounding leisure. This thesis defends a claim to a more demanding notion of leisure – the condition of performing activities chosen as ends in themselves.
The thesis establishes the claim to leisure over three parts. In the first part, it develops this more demanding notion of leisure by drawing upon the thought of Aristotle and Marx. It argues that placing this notion at the centre of a normative inquiry into a claim to leisure – ahead of free time – allows the theorist to uncover the reasons that leisure might be important and when state policies dedicated towards leisure might be justified. In the second part, it establishes that citizens of the liberal state have a claim to leisure as a matter of justice through the capability for leisure. This involves endorsing a liberal theory that accommodates capabilities, which I call Nussbaumian liberalism, ahead of more popular forms of liberalism that tend to suit arguments made for free time. In the final part, it asks how this capability ought to be satisfied. The answer depends upon the circumstances, but in all scenarios, leisure requires giving people free time and other things, and in current liberal societies, it requires the state to supply a range of leisure goods far beyond what political theorists (including free time advocates) have previously argued for. In the process, the thesis provides much-needed normative guidance for judging and directing the leisure policies of liberal states
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