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Editors’ preface:Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World
No full textAs explained in the Series Editors' Preface, this series is a result of workshops bringing together public and international lawyers. From the second volume onwards, the topics revolve around the International Association of Research Universities ('IARU') thematic research topics. When Kim Rubenstein began thinking about organising the fourth workshop around the theme of Movement of People, she was enthusiastic about inviting her ANU colleagues Fiona Jenkins from Philosophy and Mark Nolan from Law to join her in running it as the three of them had already been collaborating on related work. This fourth workshop 'Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World' was inspired by interesting interdisciplinary work Kim and Fiona and Mark were developing assessing membership issues from the perspectives of citizenship law, political philosophy and social psychology. Our workshop took place on 19-21 July 2010 at the Australian National University. The thirty three paper presenters and a further group of participants, who had read all the papers, enjoyed vigorous discussion, engaging fully with each other and the material. We thank Matthew Zagor, then Deputy Director of ANU's National Europe Centre, for providing us with a dynamic venue. We thank Giovanni Di Lieto, Jacqui Field, then undergraduate student in the ANU College of Law, Kevin Boreham from the ANU College of Law, John Milfull from the University of New South Wales, Anne Macduff from the ANU College of Law, Tim Soutphommasane, then from Monash University, and Fanny Thornton from the ANU College of Law for presenting stimulating papers at the workshop even though their papers were not developed for the resulting book. We thank the National Europe Centre for funding Vito Breda's visit through their Visiting Fellowship series and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship for support in running the workshop by sending along participants for the discussion from their ranks.</p
Introduction: allegiance and identity in a globalised world
No full textInterrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves challenging long-standing attempts to describe, recognise and regulate membership, connection and participation within and beyond the nation-state. On the one hand, concepts of allegiance and identity can be used quite simplistically to define a singular national identity and common connection to a nation-state. Yet, on the other hand, allegiance and identity are notions that can help us understand the capacity for nation-states, and members of nation-states, to maintain diversity, and to build allegiance with others outside of the border. For example, in forging transnational entities that share norms, values, laws and social practices transcending singular national concerns, the sphere of national identity and allegiance becomes far more complex than traditional figures of commitment and belonging can encompass. Indeed, understanding how allegiance and identity are being reconfigured helps us understand diversity and social (dis)harmony within and beyond nation-states. Controversies surrounding allegiance and identity are both similar and different for domestic public lawyers and international lawyers. While each of these legal perspectives, the domestic and the international, involve viewing the nation-state as fundamental to concepts of allegiance and identity, they also see the world slightly differently, depending upon the frame of public law or international law. Indeed, scholars contributing to this volume, in addition to thinking from both the public law and international law vantage, have used multiple disciplinary perspectives to examine allegiance and identity in a range of socio-legal contexts. Some have examined the tensions created by the legal description, recognition and regulation of national (public law) citizenship or nationality, regional identity and constitutional identity. A central set of questions here is the extent to which law can and should help constitute identity as a basis for engendering a form of allegiance that includes indentity to the polity. Other contributors have sought to understand indigenous identity and customary law in contrast to the identity and laws of a dominant public law culture co-existing with the indigenous peoples.</p
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
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