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Feminist and queer aesthetics in Tove Jansson’s Moomin comics
No full textThis chapter examines the Moomin comics written and illustrated by Tove Jansson between 1954 and 1957. Focusing on the central themes of gender and sexuality, the family, women’s emancipation, masculinity, and femininity, the chapter argues that gender politics are already at the forefront of the Moomin comics written and illustrated during this period. I explore the overlapping themes between Jansson’s Moomin comics and novels in order to show how the comics developed themes that would be elaborated in the later novels. Beginning with the context for the publication of the comics, the chapter analyses Jansson’s satire of the bourgeois family and the emancipation of Moominmamma through acts of rebellion that question ideals of homes and family. I conclude by examining representations of masculinity and femininity in the romance between Moomin and Snorkmaiden, in which the constraints of normative gender appear increasingly untenable over the course of the comics.</p
Efter unionsupplösningen. Nation och genuspolitik i Hjalmar Söderbergs Den allvarsamma leken
No full textSammendrag
Denna artikel undersöker nationalism och genuspolitik i Hjalmar
Söderbergs Den allvarsamma leken (1912). Jag fokuserar
på romanens skildring av unionsupplösningen som skedde 1905 mellan
Sverige och Norge för att analysera intersektionen av nation och
genus i sekelskiftets liberala diskurser. Ellen Key (som skildras
i romanen som ”Ellen Hej”) är en nyckelfigur både i feministiska
debatter och i egenskap av aktivist som förespråkade en fredlig
unionsupplösning. Jag lyfter Keys och Söderbergs syn på nationen
som ett stadium i den progressiva utvecklingen mot en kosmopolitisk
gemenskap, samt Keys kontroversiella kärlekslära. Jag visar dessutom
hur romanen naturaliserar det heterosexuella begäret genom huvudpersonen
Arvids obotliga begär till Lydia. Slutligen menar jag att den melankoliska
stämning som genomsyrar romanen är ett uttryck för liberalismens
ofullständiga emancipationsprojekt gällande såväl kvinnor som nationen
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
Comics Anthropocenes: visualizing multiple space-times in Anglophone speculative comics
No full textComics and graphic novels have not typically been foregrounded in accounts of Anthropocene fictions. This article argues that speculative comics are particularly suited to visualizing the Anthropocene through their verbal-visual strategies for representing multiple scales of space and time. Defined as the era in which human-driven processes have become detectable in the Earth’s geological record, the concept of the Anthropocene has also been challenged by postcolonial and Indigenous theorists for presuming an undifferentiated humanity responsible for ecological crises. Speculative comics offer strategies for representing multiple scales of space and time that call into question the ‘human’ as a geological force. While autobiographical and documentary comics represent the scale of individual human experience, speculative comics feature nonhuman spaces and times on multiple, asynchronous scales. This article first contextualizes the representation of space and time in speculative Anglophone comics from early superhero comics to the contemporary period, then focusing on three case studies drawn from contemporary Anglophone comics: Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s Nameless (2015), Warren Ellis and Jason Howard’s Trees (2014–2016, 2020), and Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (2021).</p
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
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
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