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Signs of Grace: Protestant Pro-slavery Rhetoric of Disability in the 19th Century
No full textThis archival analysis of 19th-century Protestant pro-slavery rhetoric shows that positive evaluations of disability concealed debilitation practices on plantations. The examination complicates a narrative in disability histories that associates Christian teaching with only a negative evaluation of disability as indexing a state of sin. Instead, the article explains how positive and negative evaluations of intellectual deficiency coalesced within a theological imaginary to shore up white Christian consciences, allowing for and encouraging the violence perpetrated against the enslaved. The article concludes, following Jasbir Puar and Julie Avril Minich, to query whether re-inscribing a positive evaluation of disability does disability justice
Crip Conversion: Narratives of Disability and Grace
No full textTheologians tell stories about disability. Crip Conversion: Narratives of Disability and Grace analyzes the stories theologians tell about intellectual disability in particular. Although Disability Studies critiques Christianity for deploying disability as a sign of morality or as demonstrative of divine power, this dissertation shows that the function of disability in theological narratives is in no way reducible to these two options. The dissertation departs from Disability Theology, and so makes an additional contribution, because it does not take intellectual disability as its object but rather theological talk about disability. In the end, the dissertation contests the oft-repeated claim that one should never functionalize intellectual disability in theology. Instead, the dissertation suggests that deploying intellectual disability as narrative metaphor allows one to come at the Protestant tradition from a helpful vantage point—such that the significance of sensation for the reception of grace comes to the fore. By attending to tendencies towards reduction, generalization, and transvaluation, this dissertation shows that reducing intellectual disability to its symbolic function oversimplifies the complexities of human existence. In contrast, the dissertation suggests an alternative strategy, treating stories of intellectual disability as an orientation for reading theological texts. This methodological experiment leads to a constructive proposal for a Protestant view of grace that pushes the current scholarly conversation towards more expansive understandings of the modes of interaction that the gift of Christ’s own life makes possible. By engaging intellectual disability through narrative metaphor, the emphasis within Protestantism shifts away from intellectual activity as necessary for the reception of grace and towards the role that sensation plays in carrying the individual to the divine Word. Interactions with objects, sounds, and sights are thought of as manifestations of Christ’s formative activity on the whole person. The spiritual freedom grace empowers, then, is not dependent on human relationships within the world, a concept of God, or any contribution on the part of the individual. Instead, the Spirit shapes the form of our interactions, breathes on us new possibilities, and opens us up to enjoy Christ’s life as our own. A Protestant account of grace, this dissertation argues, needn’t absent the intellectually disabled from participation
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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