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Living in a Limbo. Eritrean Refugees in Kampala
Full text linkIn Uganda, there are about 15.000 Eritrean refugees and most of them live in the capital Kampala. The majority are young people, both men and women, who fled Eritrea to avoid the national service imposed by a despotic regime. Indeed, the Eritrean government, led by Isaias Afewerki, imposes a period of conscription that can last for an unspecified period of time, annihilating the possibility for young people to plan their future: the only alternative is to flee to exile. Some Eritreans try to reach Europe passing through Sudan and then Libya; some others go to Israel. Quite a large number travels to Kampala passing through Sudan and Kenya. In Kampala, they apply for refugee status and try to move to Canada or USA. This process can take up to three years, but sometime even more. This paper focuses on the Eritrean refugees in Kampala and tries to shed light on the strategies they use to cope with life and reconstruct a quite closed and self-referential diasporic community. Moreover, it focuses on the ambivalent relationship between the Eritrean diaspora and the Eritrean state. The latter forces many young people to leave the country but, at the same time, exploits them as a source of income. On their part, most of refugees display an ambiguous and ambivalent attitude towards the Eritrean regime, a mix of disapproval and reverential nationalism. Nostalgia and dreams for the future shape the diasporic life in Kampala, a limbo characterized by paradoxes and ambiguities: even though Eritrean refugees live in a closed community, their internal relationships are pervaded with mistrust, divisions and paranoia. The Eritrean refugee community embodies all the contradictions of a despotic state, which is perceived as an autocratic enemy as well as a symbol of presumed superiority of the Eritrean natio
Congo. La grande guerra africana
No full textLa guerra nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo, ex Zaire, è la più violenta e mortifera che il mondo abbia conosciuto nell'ultimo mezzo secolo. Sono ormai trent'anni che questo Paese immenso, ricco di risorse naturali, è piombato in un conflitto che ancora non conosce fine. Il traffico di minerali preziosi alimenta un’economia di guerra ramificata a livello globale. Il Ruanda e l’Uganda continuano a interferire nelle regioni orientali, dove sono ancora attivi oltre cento gruppi armati in cui militano migliaia di giovani e bambini. L’intervento delle nazioni Unite non ha portato a una cessione delle ostilità e i negoziati di pace procedono a rilento. Milioni di morti e sofferenze indicibili: la guerra in Congo segna un fallimento per tutta la comunità internazionale
FRA FUTURI PASSATI E ANTROPOLOGIA DEL FUTURO. QUALCHE RIFLESSIONE A MARGINE SU ANTROPOLOGIA E TEMPO
No full textAll’inizio del Novecento la nostra nozione di tempo è entrata (ancora una volta) in crisi in un processo di ripensamento che ha coinvolto la fisica, l’arte ma anche l’antropologia culturale, allora in via di affermazione nelle accademie. Questa svolta ha portato, fra le altre cose, a una polverizzazione dell’idea di presente e di linearità del tempo. Queste ‘sfide del tempo’ non possono che riverberarsi sulla riflessione antropologica contemporanea. In particolare, la ricerca etnografica nel quotidiano deve dar conto del modo in cui i soggetti fronteggiano regimi temporali diversi e si collocano in un presente dilatato che incorpora, senza confini netti, le memorie del passato e gli orientamenti per il futuro
Parlare d'Africa. 50 parole chiave
No full textDi Africa, in Italia, si parla poco e male. Le ragioni sono molteplici. Da un lato è evidente una lacuna culturale nella formazione scolastica italiana. Dall’altro, quando se ne discute, lo si fa spesso in modo approssimativo, sulla base di stereotipi e semplificazioni che portano a una rappresentazione distorta. Lo scopo del volume è di introdurre categorie interpretative e concetti chiave necessari per muoversi nella complessità del continente africano. Il libro vuole essere una sorta di bussola per orientarsi nella storia e nell’attualità dell’Africa e per presentare – anche a chi per la prima volta vi si avvicina – le questioni fondamentali di un continente così denso e dinamico. Strutturato in forma di glossario, il testo propone le parole più utili a comprendere un’area del mondo che verosimilmente avrà in futuro un’importanza sempre maggiore nei rapporti di forza globali e fornisce gli strumenti per parlare dell’Africa con un lessico storicamente e culturalmente informato
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
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