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Episode 84: Bearing Witness with Alex Lockwood
No full textIn this episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by Alex Lockwood. Alex is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland. We discuss Alex’s article ‘Bodily Encounter, Bearing Witness and the Engaged Activism of the Global Save Movement’ which appeared in the journal 'Animal Studies' in 2018
Creative writing and global animal protection [Creative writing collection]
No full textWriting collection comprising:
Lockwood, Alex (2019) H is for Hypocrite: reading 'New Nature Writing' through the lens of vegan theory. In: Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism (Cultural Ecologies of Food). University of Nevada Press, Nevada, pp. 205-222. ISBN 9781948908108
Lockwood, Alex (2017) The Collaborative Craft of Creatural Writing. In: Beyond the Human-Animal Divide Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture. Palsgrave McMillan, London. ISBN 9781137603098
Lockwood, Alex (2016) The Pig in Thin Air: An Identification. {Bio}graphies . Lantern Books, New York, New York. ISBN 9781590565353
The submission comprises two book chapters, and a book published by Lantern Books (New York). This research explores various impacts of how creative writing has shaped narratives around global animal protection. In a period requiring urgent attention to human interaction with animals and their habitats, made more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic, the research traces how writers and editors engage in representing human-animal relations and the natural world. Conducting original interviews and engaging in novel textual analysis as well as the production of new creative non-fiction, this research responds to the industrialisation of our relationships with the nonhuman and offers novel approaches for how writers can craft more responsible and intersectional narratives.
Produced through a process of embodied investigation, The Pig in Thin Air is a work of creative non-fiction exploring participation in contemporary animal advocacy. This includes a record of Lockwood’s involvement in slaughterhouse vigils, a restaurant ‘die-in’, as well as a consulting to one America’s oldest and largest farm animal advocacy organisation, Farm Sanctuary. His insights into the role of embodied encounters are woven into explorations of new craft techniques for how the writing of these encounters can shape our ability to respond to and absorb different narratives about those relationships. The Pig in Thin Air has become a primary point of reference for animal protection organisations thinking strategically about their uses of creativity in storytelling.
The publication ‘H is for Hypocrite’ is a critique of new nature writing picked up in the national media (e.g. BBC Radio 4’s Front Row). This chapter offers the insight that most nature writing remains mired in anthropocentric practices of domination, even as it demands people to ‘love’ the natural world, and so reinforces those destructive modes of cultural behaviour. The second chapter ‘The Collaborative Craft of Creatural Writing’ provides original research in interviews with writers and editors engaging in innovative editing practices in ecological writing. The research demonstrates that many writers are drawing upon indigenous cultures and spiritual practices to restore relationships in and through their creative outputs with nonhuman life.
Together, these pieces of work have established Lockwood’s reputation as a narrative expert, leading to roles shaping the communications strategies of welfare and education outreach organisations; for example, as commissioned author on the Vegan Society’s new Food Systems Report
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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