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Evental Infrastructure: Momentous Geographies of Technoscience Production
No full text10.1080/24694452.2020.1724766ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHER
Infrastructuring Development: Aerial Silk Roads at Two ‘Belt and Road’ Airports
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‘Aerial Silk Roads’: Airport Infrastructures in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
No full textThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is widely touted as China’s answer todevelopment through international connectivity. The scheme has often beenlinked to China’s objectives of crafting a new world order centred on itselfand/or stabilizing its economy through externalizing surplus capacity.Whileimportant in broadly framing China’s relationship with the world, this articleposits that such a fixation on state-centric visions of development leavesthe door open for misinterpretation, mistaking the BRI for a coherent set ofprojects imposed ‘from above’. Delving into the execution of infrastructureplanning on the ground, this article argues that taking a practice-oriented approach to large-scale developmental schemes can more accurately shed lighton their internally fractured processes. Two airport projects in central Chinabranded as part of the country’s ‘aerial Silk Roads’ are examined to illustratethese dynamics, with particular attention paid to the airports’ shifting conceptualizations, the competitive motivations behind their (re)construction,and the social relations sustaining them. The authors argue that closely trackingthe unfolding of a range of infrastructure planning practices within specificprojects can demystify modern-day developmental programmes like theBRI, by revealing how their ‘grand’ visions are often reinterpreted, alteredand frustrated at local levels, even before they have a chance to influence theworld
Aeromobilities’ extra-sectoral costs: A methodological reorientation
Get PDFFor over a decade, scholars have graced a number of aeromobilities’ socio-cultural dimensions, from being in an airport to commanding an aeroplane. Yet, while this work has heightened appreciations of the political nature of aerial worlds, the propensity has been to focus on the immediate arrangements and politics related to flight. Using civil aviation as an example, this article offers a methodological reorientation and conceptual rethink of how aeromobilities’ (re)production invokes far-reaching political economies in excess of the core activity of aerial conveyances. It seeks to open up worldly webs of iniquitous movements and relations that make aerial life – rather than flying per se – possible in the first place. Interspersing a selection of our research with extant literature, reports and statistics, the article outlines, in coincidence with our earlier findings, two ways in which civil aviation has thus incurred extensive extra-sectoral costs: the material mobilisation of resources for air infrastructures, and the mobilisation of populations and labour for aeromobile development. The discussion aims ultimately to promote a more nuanced understanding of the constituents, and costs, of moving in the present age
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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