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Studi di genere, saperi femministi e emancipatory social sciences: appunti per un possibile dialogo
No full textParlare di genere e di emancipatory social sciences può suonare quasi come una tautologia. La genesi del concetto di genere e degli studi che nel corso dei decenni hanno preso il suo nome sono emancipatori di nascita. Chiamare “di genere” le differenze tra uomini e donne, infatti, è servito a dare il via al processo di liberazione dell’umanità, delle donne in primis, dal presunto destino naturale del sesso. È in base alle differenze sessuali tra i corpi, infatti, che nel corso dei secoli si sono costruite aspettative differenziate sul maschile e sul femminile (che spaziano dal vestiario adeguato all’espressione delle emozioni), sono stati assegnati agli uni e alle altre ruoli diversi nella sfera pubblica e in quella privata, ed è stato distribuito in maniera diseguale il potere. Ma, soprattutto, per secoli sono state proprio le differenze tra i corpi – prima fra tutti il diverso ingaggio di uomini e donne nel processo riproduttivo – ad essere utilizzate dal punto di vista euristico per spiegare la diversa posizione di uomini e donne nella società e, sostanzialmente, per naturalizzare sia le differenze che le diseguaglianze. Obiettivo di questo contributo è discutere come e in che misura gli studi di genere possano contribuire agli emancipatory studies e inquadrarne il contributo sia dal punto di vista analitico che di ricerca
The Use of Violence and Gender Dynamics within Camorra Clans
No full textIn the literature dedicated to mafia criminality, violence appears almost exclusively as a male act. Women are the victims, or collaborators, of fathers, husbands and brothers. This is a model put forward by the men belonging to the clans themselves to defend their women, but also to ensure their support coming from outside of prison. Wives, sisters and mothers, according to this version, are never directly involved in the group’s organisation, not to mention committing violence. Influenced by the codes and values of the Sicilian mafia, whose own statutes limit positions in centralised management to men, this model was accepted for years by investigators and judges among others. Turning our attention to the Camorra, instead, leads us to the heart of a violence managed by women who may also take on a commanding role.
In this chapter we will consider gender violence within Camorra clans, based on an analysis of a series of cases from the ’90s to the present day. An initial part will consist in drawing a few parallels with women who appear as protagonists in literary portraits and trials in 19th-century Naples. This comparison will allow us to retrace a few elements showing a historical continuity in female roles within Neapolitan criminal milieus and illegal markets. The second part will analyse the events surrounding a few women who held a position of command within clans and others who, in managing criminal and illegal activities, have directly committed violence, exercising a despotic control over these territories no less than their men
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
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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