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Alternatives to Green Growth?:Possibilities and contradictions of self-managed food production
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No full textLessons from Dharnai, “India’s First Fully Solar-Powered Village”: A Case Study
Full text link: This case study is of “India’s First Fully Solar Powered Village”2
—Dharnai. It is a case of the promises of
and challenges facing the realization of “energy democracy”—the idea that distributed renewable energy systems
have the potential to democratize the economy and society. This case study offers the reader three takeaways.
First, it locates the project at Dharnai in relation to the theoretical framework of energy democracy and the
national and global renewable energy policy regimes. This is based on the academic literature on energy-society
studies, documentation and outreach material about the project and interviews with individuals involved in the
life of the project. Second, the case study details how the project was conceived and implemented in Dharnai. Third,
it records how citizens of Dharnai experienced the microgrid, as well as their interpretation of what it means for
them. The latter two takeaways are based on interviews with the villagers of Dharnai conducted in December
2017 and March 2020 as well as interviews with individuals associated with the project as representatives of its
external proponents. This case study ends with some considerations about the realization of energy democracy;
specifically, the proposal of devolving sovereignty to the grassroots through participatory governance enabled by
the ability to devolve ownership of energy infrastructure. The challenge illustrated by this case study, to the idea
of energy democracy as an alternative path to energy transition, is two-fold. First, the relatively low capacity of
solar photovoltaic systems to convert energy, i.e., “power density,” was perceived to be at odds with the aspired
to levels of energy availability. The citizens of Dharnai tended to associate the more expansive availability of
electricity from the grid, as “real electricity,” that was more closely matched to meeting their aspirations. Low
power density limits the possible economically productive applications, which further undermines the financial
viability of the project. Second, somewhat surprisingly, some of the citizens’ of Dharnai tended to disavow their
capacity for participatory governance, presumed in the energy democracy literature, insisting instead that an
external, powerful actor, whom they “feared,” was better suited to manage the affairs of the microgrid. This
could be understood as suggesting that prior to, or at least in parallel with investments in decentralized energy
technology, significant commitment is needed to understand and foster the social and cultural infrastructures for
participatory democracy and local governance. Such an engagement may have to grapple with deep-seated caste
divisions and the resulting undermining of civic community
Towards sustainability as justice? A global context of the emerging critical mineral value chains
No full textGoing 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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