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Turning urban studies inside/out
No full textProcess and practice have been watchwords for this book, as they were for the collaborative seminar that proceeded it. Along with our collaborators, we have been concerned to excavate and explicate generative modes and models of practice, in both creative research and constructive critique. The monographs that were the focus for Part II of the collection were each encountered, as we indicated in Chapter 3, not simply s ‘finished’ contributions but more as windows onto different forms of research practice. Specifically, they were each rea for methodology and reverse-engineered as a means to uncover the underlying conditions and constitutive practices involved in their production; to find and position both the author and her research practices in the text; and to derive lessons and insights from this process in a manner attuned to the interests and concerns of researchers entering the field. Furthermore, in tracing the path from a collaborative seminar for graduate students to a published collection of essays, reflections, and keyword entries, we have sought in a parallel fashion to be transparent and reflexive about our own (shared) processes and practices
Urban studies inside/out : a guide for readers and researchers
No full textThe remit of this final introductory chapter is to outline the format and purpose of Urban Studies Inside/Out, with appropriate reference to the collaborative practices that were constitutive to its own making. Ultimately, it is our hope that this collection might provide a platform of sorts upon which new conservations, contributions, and collaborations might be convened. This we say while recognizing that the present collection can do no more than take some initial steps, although we hope steps in the right direction – toward a modified genre of research practice founded on the principles of constructive engagement; respectful dialogue across differences of perspective, position, and approach; and reciprocal learning facilitated by methodological transparency and reflexivity. In sympathy with the objective of finding ways for ‘cities everywhere to be drawn into wider theoretical conversations’ (Robinson, 2014: 7), this chapter sketches a framework for exploring the kinds of research practices that might productively contribute to such a goal. We do so by seeking to render transparent our own practice, as the editors and contributors of this volume, in approaching and asking questions of urban studies monographs, and in organizing the group’s collaborative efforts
Doing urban studies : navigating the methodological terrain
No full textIn this chapter, we turn from questions of theory, ontology, and epistemology to the question of methodology – of how urban scholars since the turn of the Millennium have gone about their research in order to produce empirically informed knowledge. The methodologies deployed by critical urban scholars are as diverse as their theoretical influences. Yet, while urban theory receives enormous attention, discussions of urban studies methodologies have largely remained under the radar – our motivation for this book. Indeed, for many of the monographs that are examined in Part II of this collection, the authors of the books in question generally spend little time explicating their method, necessitating the attempts herein to try to reverse-engineer what those methods were. Nevertheless, and to some extent paralleling theoretical shifts, there have been distinctive changes in the methodological culture of critical urban studies
Urban studies unbound : postmillennial spaces of theory
No full textEach of the urban monographs discussed in this book draws on one or more theorizations of the urban that have been in play since the turn of the Millennium. To contextualize the monographs, in this chapter we provide a brief overview of this theoretical landscape – an intellectual cartography of the current state of critical urban theory. In one way or another, the theoretical contributions to be discussed below each depart from a predominantly anglo-phone orthodoxy that dominated critical urban theory at the turn of the century: urban political economy. Before turning our attention to transformations in the field of critical urban studies over the past two decades, we provide a brief sketch of the state of the field at the turn of the Millennium, which is taken here as an inflection point of sort despite some important strands of continuity. This represents a point of departure for the critiques and new lines of scholarship that have reshaped the field in the past two decades – the terrain explored in Urban Studies Inside/Out
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
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Jakarta, Indonesia: Documenting Peri-Urban Land Use Change
Full text linkContinued widespread urban growth places unprecedented pressure on formerly rural, now urban fringe communities creating new regional planning challenges in cities of the global South. This thesis investigates processes of peri-urbanization in the Jakarta metropolitan region between 1995 – 2015, documenting land use change using a Landsat remote sensing and GIS analysis. The study results found that regional urban land use increased over 20 percent, and vegetation declined by 20 percent during this time. Peri-urban land transformations show distinct spatial and temporal patterns, beginning in the west with large new town developments since the late 1980s, and shifting east, then south, after 2005. By looking specifically at the various sub- regions of the metropolitan area, in addition to changes over time, this study corroborated current literature regarding regional planning and identified specific densification patterns. While peri- urbanization has spread in distance since the early 1990s, land classification maps also indicate extreme densification throughout the region
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
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