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The urban-rural distinction in the analysis of the depopulation of inner areas - The “Sicani area” in south Sicily
No full textItaly's negative demographic balance worsened following the 2008 recession, with a discernible migration flow from the southern to the northern regions. Sicily is a representative case in this regard, but it also exhibits significant internal variation on a local and regional level that is scarcely covered in the currently accessible literature. Furthermore, most of the current analyses on depopulation in Italy are conducted at the regional or municipal level, producing intersections with other variables such as the degree of rurality, which, either using the Degurba-Eurostat typology or the Italian Rural Development Plan (PSR) one, show significant association between rurality and depopulation. This contribution seeks to complement the available analyses on depopulation by addressing the increasing urban-rural contradiction, by incorporating intra-communal demographic data to distinguish between demographic variation in small inhabited centres and in sparsely populated or uninhabited areas. The comparison will be drawn from census data from the 2011 and 2021 series. Specifically, data will be analysed for the inner area “Sicani” in the south of Sicily, part of the SNAI, which has decreased its population by 19% between 2001 and 2021
Participatory incubator of cultural initiatives within a local development strategy in the Sicani area in Sicily
No full textThe inner area "Sicani" in Sicily, made up of 12 municipalities of the "Agrigentino", with an important rural, hilly and mountainous component, is characterised by a high rate of depopulation, a high ageing population, lower income levels compared to nearby urban areas and difficulties in accessing public services and road mobility networks. Despite the social and functional problems of the territory, the resident communities of these small urban centres still have deep-rooted traditions and cultural and festive expressions that socially and economically activate the area by attracting emigrants and tourists at certain times of the year.
The project aims to identify cultural events and festive manifestations with roots and positive impact at the local level that need to be promoted; convene the different associative actors, organisations and local administrations that manage cultural and festive events; set up monitoring and incubation tables for the development of permanent and integrated cultural initiatives; develop participatory project management models that integrate associations and territories; manage funding and collaborate in the implementation of projects.
This initiative is expected to incubate one project per municipality per year, seeking the territorial integration of initiatives, inter-institutional partnership and collaboration between associations, for the management of cultural and festive events with local roots and with identity and heritage implications
Despoblamiento rural en Chile: análisis de tendencias demográficas a escala local
Full text linkEn la actualidad el despoblamiento asume magnitudes dramáticas en contextos como el área mediterránea, en especial en las zonas interiores en España y en las denominadas “áreas internas” en Italia. En América latina este fenómeno, que emerge en las últimas décadas, está siendo estudiado principalmente en su relación con las dinámicas de urbanización y desagrarización, que afectan sobre todo a los países que han experimentado transformaciones sociales y económicas importantes en los territorios rurales, como Chile. Cambios culturales, de expectativas de vida, pero también transformaciones en la estructura económica y productiva en contexto rural, son relevantes para comprender la pérdida de población. En el artículo se aborda esta problemática a través de análisis de datos cuantitativos con referencia geográfica, a nivel nacional y a escala comunal, buscando identificar un área suprarregional donde la pérdida de población en zonas rurales se evidencie con mayor claridad. Posteriormente, se desarrolla un método de construcción de perfiles de comunas con despoblamiento rural, tomando como referencia datos del Sistema de Indicadores de Calidad de Vida Rural SICVIR y datos censales del período 2002-2017
Valutazioni sociodemografiche
No full textIl contributo propone un'analisi sulle dinamiche demografiche dei comuni dell'ara del Gal Sicani, con particolare riferimento alla distribuzione della popolazione stranier
Il coinvolgimento degli attori territoriali e della comunità
No full textIl contributo restituisce l'approccio e il quadro generale delle pratiche partecipative condotte nell'ambito dell'azione 1.3.2. “Sostegno alla generazione di soluzioni innovative a specifici problemi di rilevanza sociale, anche attraverso l’utilizzo di ambienti di innovazione aperta come i Living Labs” (Regione Siciliana, 2022a). Quest’azione prevede interventi territorializzati mediante l’impiego dello strumento di base comunitaria e partecipativa Community Led Local Development (CLLD), attivo dal periodo di programmazione 2014-2020 al fine di estendere il campo di applicazione dell’approccio LEADER nelle zone rurali, urbane e di pesca, consentendo l’accesso a diverse fonti di finanziamento europee
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
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