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Book review: The impact agenda: controversies, consequences and challenges by Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer
No full textIn The Impact Agenda, Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer bring together research about the impact agenda and its policies into one critical discussion to highlight why it creates the controversies, consequences and challenges of the book’s subtitle. Calling on the UK academic community to seize the opportunity to reshape the impact agenda in more positive and sustainable ways, the book’s valuable synthesis and analysis is worthwhile reading for anyone interested in this topic, recommends Jane Tinkler
Book review: The impact agenda: controversies, consequences and challenges by Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer
No full textIn The Impact Agenda, Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart and Richard Watermeyer bring together research about the impact agenda and its policies into one critical discussion to highlight why it creates the controversies, consequences and challenges of the book’s subtitle. Calling on the UK academic community to seize the opportunity to reshape the impact agenda in more positive and sustainable ways, the book’s valuable synthesis and analysis is worthwhile reading for anyone interested in this topic, recommends Jane Tinkler
Muslim civil society organisations in Britain negotiate accusations of sectarianism when they engage in democratic politics
No full textJan Bobbernack, Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood comment upon Muslim civil society organisations in Britain
Reminder - Plenary speakers ESA Conference 2019
No full textManuela Boatca; Sari Hanafi; Michèle Lamont; Nasar Meer; Françoise Vergès and Michel Wieviorka. You can read their short biographies here
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
Race and premodern epistemology
No full textEpistemology means «theory of knowledge». It aims at defining what knowledge is, separating true knowledge from what is not. Epistemology designs which objects are knowable and analyzes how the subject can know the object, thereby establishing what modes of knowledge production are legitimate and valid. As such, the language wherein epistemology is articulated informs the content of epistemology itself. Even the modern term «epistemology» which is current in global English-speaking world, results absent in pre-modern Europe. The Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier introduced «epistemology» in XIX century: it corresponds to a premodern transversal field of knowledge, wider than the one that the same term designs in modern philosophy. In Latin-speaking world, from late antiquity to late medieval times, such a wider space extended across philosophy, natural science, ethics and metaphysics, and it licked theology to which it inextricably related. Premodern epistemology underwent transformations in response to the mobilization of institutional racism by European Catholic elites, due to political, geopolitical and ideological reasons. In the Mediterranean, between XII and XV century, four factors of instability intervened in shaping the historical context for premodern epistemology. First, the shifting balance of power between Christendom and Islam due to the alternate military fortunes in the Crusades. Second, the challenge to the Catholic secular power raised by the Latin Christian Empire and kingdoms. Third, the mounting threat that heretic movements launched to the established doctrinal orthodoxy of the Church; forth, the circulation of Aristotle’s texts through Arab commentaries, whose relevance Christian intellighentsia had ignored for centuries. These four factors of instability conjured to led the Roman Church to produce a different hierarchical system of racial classification for people, their cultures and knowledges, in the Mediterranean world and beyond it. This system was grounded on the stigmatization of whatever idea associated with Islamic intellectual influences. Epistemology was the pillar of such a system, which proved less cosmopolitan and flexible than the Christian philosophy in use since late antiquity, that is, Augustinian theology, as well as its late medieval reformulation, that is, scholasticism. Both Augustinian theology and Scholasticism had attempted to accommodate ancient knowledges and cultures in a non-conflictual way with Christendom: «pagan» knowledges before Christ, such as Greek philosophy or Babylonian astrology, enjoyed respect even though considered less true than revealed Truth. At the turn of XII century, missing texts from the Corpus Aristotelicum were translated into Latin from Greek through Arab language but Catholic religious authorities opposed their diffusion to learned elites through universities. For their content conflicted with the official doctrine of the Church under crucial respects and their Arab imprint provoked fear and suspicions of external pernicious intrusions into the realm of thinking. Fear and suspicion became xenophobia as much as Islam appeared to grow in power both politically and intellectually along XIII century. The most unacceptable thesis for the Church was Ibn-Rushd’s (Averroè) idea that human intelligence is not an attribute of the single individual but a general collective immortal substance, therefore separated by the single individual soul. There logically followed that the single individual soul would be mortal, thus not susceptible to be eternally damned. For this reason, Averroè thought and taught that religion was useful for giving a horizon of sense to ordinary people while it was useless to whom embrace philosophy, whereas philosophy is not a discipline nor a field of knowledge but an intellectual tension to grasp the Cosmos through reason. This is why on the Islamic side of the
Mediterranean, Averroè and many of his followers Islamic authorities persecuted, while persecuted on the Christian side, his Christian followers, the so-called Latin Averroists. Thomas Aquinas elaborated the most sophisticated version of the attempt to find an equalizing balance between faith and reason in the middle 1250s, but even his scholasticism began to fall under political and ideological attack when it did not served the political needs of Christian European elites anymore. New needs emerged, organized around the principle of affirming white, Catholic, Western absolute primacy over whatever form of knowledge forcedly put under the rubric of «Eastern influences». Eastern influences were labeled «Arabism» in a pejorative fashion and associated with heresy and religious authorities at university La Sorbonne in Paris prohibited them in 1270 and 1277. Following this racist reactionary path that run across the borders between politics and knowledge, premodern epistemology passed to set forth the superiority of faith over reason and the ultimate supremacy of Revelatio (revelation) over Scientia (knowledge), thereby ideologically and unilaterally setting the universal boundaries that human mind should not trespass and the questions human being should not ask
Racialisation et religion
No full textFourni par Nasar Meer (Northumbria University), voici les accès vers les articles du numéro spécial de Ethnic and Racial Studies On-Line Early: ‘Racialization and Religion in the study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia’
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
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