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Mon ami Diogène: La voie rapide vers le bonheur
No full textFigure emblématique de la philosophie cynique, Diogène de Sinope est un sage de l’Antiquité grecque qui incarne, à travers sa pratique, l’idée que le bonheur réside tout simplement dans la poursuite d’une vie vertueuse, en accord avec la nature. Il propose ainsi une « voie courte » vers l’épanouissement, où la simplicité de ses principes contraste avec la difficulté de leur mise en œuvre.
Diogène nous confronte à une réflexion des plus fondamentales : pourquoi vivons-nous, si ce n’est pour bien vivre ? Rejetant richesse, pouvoir et vanité, il opposa à sa société son franc-parler et un mode de vie radical.
Souvent critiqué pour la simplicité de son message, Diogène a longtemps été marginalisé. Pourtant, derrière son humour et ses provocations se cache une sagesse profonde, plus pertinente que jamais dans notre monde consumériste en crise
Is Radicalisation a “Good Concept”?
No full textOver the last two decades, numerous definitions of radicalisation have emerged, introducing ambiguities among scholars and leading to numerous debates. The discipline contends with these ambiguities as critics point out the lack of conceptual clarity. The persistent struggle to articulate a clear and comprehensive definition underscores the imperative for a rigorous conceptual analysis. This paper aims to address this issue by focusing on narrowing down definitions through specific criteria and establishing common attributes for conceptualisation. The methodology involves collecting unique radicalisation definitions from 48 English and French journal articles. These definitions were analysed using criteria for concept formation proposed by Gerring’s Framework. The study aims to establish a possible consensus and initiate discussions towards a more operational concept of radicalisation in social sciences
Unravelling Radicalisation
No full textRadicalisation has become a central concept in contemporary security studies, aiming to understand the process by which individuals adopt extremist ideologies or engage in extremist actions. The term has shaped international counterterrorism approaches and strategies aimed at preventing political violence. Nevertheless, it remains contested due to scholars' critiques of its utilisation, such as the conceptual ambiguity, securitisation impacts, or methodological weaknesses. To address the major challenges in radicalisation research, this chapter presents authors' contribution to this edited volume. By exploring the history, theories, concepts, and current practices within this field, this collection aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the subject. We believe that the volume will enhance scholarly debates and provide meaningful insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working in the prevention of political violence
Alien Registration- Mclaughlin, Gilbert R. (Caribou, Aroostook County)
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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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