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Elements of logistics: Along the line of copper
No full textExamining the conduits of production and circulation that link the extraction of copper in Chile to its storage and use in China, this article explores the political dimensions of the logistical techniques and technologies that enable these processes. We approach copper as a material element that due to its capacity to conduct electricity provides conditions of possibility for contemporary digital capitalism. At the same time, we consider the elements that constitute logistics as a political force by asking how logistics operates in parallel, partnership, and rivalry to forms of state and international order themselves in uncertain transformation. Empirically, the article stems from research conducted in Chile, specifically in the port of Valparaíso, the Andina mine run by the country’s state owned copper mining company CODELCO, and the copper smelter run by the same company on the coast at Ventanas. On this basis, we ask how the production and circulation of copper has mutated with shifting logistical arrangements that respond to the geopolitical position of China, the financialization of trade in base metals, the rise of business models based in data extraction, and workers’ struggles in times of labor precarization
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
Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor
Full text linkThe book was translated into Italian as Confini e frontiere: La moltiplicazione del lavoro nel mondo globale by Il Mulino in 2014 and into Spanish as La frontera como método. O la multiplicación del trabajo by the Buenos Aires-based publisher Tinta Limon. The Italian translation has been reviewed by philosopher Roberto Esposito in Italy’s largest circulation newspaper, La Repubblica, and by the political thinker Antonio Negri in Il Manifesto. The original edition in English had 1400 copies sold in first year, special review forum in Dialogues in Human Geography, 636 Google Scholar citations (February 2017) and around 20 reviews (among other journals in "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research", "Geographical Review", "Choice", "City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action", "Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy", "Historical Materialism", "Migration Studies", "Polar", "Political Studies Review", "Radical Philosophy", "London Review of International Law", "Journal of Multicultural Discourses", "Labour/Le Travail", and "Geopolitics".The relevance of borders and borderlands to an understanding of current globalization processes has been increasingly recognized in the last decade. As Étienne Balibar has written, ‘Whereas traditionally, and in conformity with both their juridical definition and “cartographical” representation as incorporated in national memory, they should be at the edge of the territory, marking the point where it ends, it seems that borders and the institutional practices corresponding to them have been transported into the middle of political space’. Consequently, the border has not only become a crucial site of empirical and theoretical investigation in a number of disciplines. It has also become a site of intensified artistic and political investment. The purpose of this book is twofold. On the one hand, it explores the material conditions that underlie the production of many different kinds of borders (conceptual, geographical, political, cultural, anthropological, and so on) to map the proliferation of borders in the world today. On the other hand, it critically analyzes the role played by this proliferation of borders in the restructuring of labor relations and processes.
Building upon and questioning images of an international division of labor, the book argues that the division and redivision of global space by borders not only explodes established nation-state geographies but also forces seemingly discrete territories and actors into unexpected connections that facilitate processes of production and labor exploitation. To track and analyze these processes and links, we introduce the concept of the multiplication of labor. This describes not only the intensification of the labor process and the tendency for work to colonize life but also the growing complexity that characterizes the constitution of labor markets and relations of hierarchization within and between them. Due to these changes, the subjective positions of both citizens and workers no longer coincide with that of the dyadic figure of the citizen-worker. The multiplication of labor signals the emergence of practices of discipline and control that can be fully explained neither by reference to sovereign power nor by theories of governmentality. But it also registers the production of new forms of subjectivity. There is thus a moment of political potential in the proliferation of borders.
The primary contribution of the book is synthetic and critical. There are many recent studies that examine the material transformations to borders in particular geographical sites. Works on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘external frontiers’ of the EU have been prominent. Yet there is a lack of serious research that juxtaposes practices of border crossing and border reinforcing across these sites to identify patterns of connection and disconnection. Encompassing the study of the aforementioned borderlands, the text adds considerations of the Israel-Palestine wall, China’s internal borders, the Bengali-Bangladeshi borderland, Australia’s Pacific Solution, present and historical borders in Africa, just to name a few. We are well aware of the many differences in history and geography that shape these situations. Despite these differences, however, we argue that the epistemic perspective provided by the border supplies, in all these cases, a privileged point of entry for the critical analysis of the mutations of capital and labor in the current global transition
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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