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From Female Morality to Human Dignity: An Evolutive Interpretation of 'Honour' Under Article 27(2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention
Full text linkThis article suggests a new interpretative framework for Article 27(2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits sexual violence against women in armed conflict. One specific aspect of this norm is particularly controversial: the notion of 'honour' has often been criticised as an obsolete concept linked to an outdated view of female morality. In the absence of a definition of the term, this article examines whether the gendered limitations of the norm can be overcome and the extent to which an evolutive interpretation of the concept is feasible. It argues that the concept of 'honour' can be treated as a generic term that is subject to evolutive interpretation, allowing for a renewed and gender-sensitive understanding to be developed, aligned with the concept of human dignity
La contestazione delle norme in materia di responsabilità degli Stati rispetto agli abusi coloniali: le proposte del Sud del mondo
Full text linkNegli ultimi decenni, le cause legali intentate dalle ex colonie
contro le loro ex potenze coloniali hanno evidenziato le profonde e durevoli
implicazioni del colonialismo sul diritto internazionale. Ad oggi,
si rinviene una certa tensione tra la riluttanza delle ex potenze coloniali
a riconoscere e affrontare le ingiustizie coloniali, da un lato, e la
volontà di riconciliarsi con il passato coloniale, dall'altro, che genera
frustrazione nelle ex colonie per l’impossibilità di ottenere giustizia attraverso
gli strumenti giuridici esistenti. In tale contesto, il contributo
si propone di esaminare la contestazione del Sud del mondo delle
norme internazionali vigenti in tema di responsabilità degli Stati per
abusi coloniali. La disamina si concentrerà in particolare sulle critiche
mosse dal Sud del mondo rispetto all’interpretazione e
all’applicazione del principio di intertemporalità, alla scelta
dell’(ipotetica) forma di riparazione per abusi coloniali e ai metodi per
quantificare l’ammontare del risarcimento dovuto in ipotesi di crimini
storici. S’intende in tal modo rilevare il potenziale impatto che le prospettive
del Sud del mondo possono avere sulle categorie e sui principi
giuridici del regime della responsabilità degli Stati, al fine di verificare
se, ed eventualmente in che misura, si possa configurare uno spazio
per una riconcettualizzazione delle norme sulla riparazione per i crimini
coloniali
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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