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Archive and place: In Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's Scorpionic Sun
No full textThis paper examines the processes through which the Moroccan poet and revolutionary Mohammed Khäir-Eddine (1941-1995) transforms his poetry into a subversive literary archive of memories and places, by accentuating his indigenous Amazigh identity and employing various surrealist genre devices. Centring the dialectic of postcolonial troubles and ethnonationalist discourse in post-independence Morocco, the analysis wishes to explore the competence of literature as a tool for the decolonisation of language and the articulation of anti-authoritarian resistance. The paper concludes that the chosen poems attempt to engender resistance through the social dissemination of untold stories and forgotten memories: Not by constructing a new, coherent historical narrative, but precisely by diverging from structural and formalised approaches to the production of national history
Double Exposure: Poscards from Ifrane
No full textThis thesis explores how a colonial era postcard collection visually narrates place, identity and belonging in Ifrane, Morocco. Established in 1928 as a French hill station in the Middle Atlas, Ifrane emerged as a topographically ambiguous space, mimicking an idealised French aesthetic with ski chalets, timber-frame houses, wide boulevards, as well as a strict spatial separation between the indigenous and colonial populations. This study examines how the postcards’ visual codification of the hill station as “a corner of France” legitimised empire in the region and contributed to the construction of Ifrane as a site of nostalgia; and what role their circulation might have had in affirming national identity for their intended European audience. Through a multidisciplinary photographic analysis, the thesis demonstrates how the collection of mass-produced ephemera from Ifrane has contributed to long-lasting orientalist spatial imaginaries – but also enables further critical engagement with their complex legacy
Between Narratives and Stories: Marrakech International Storytelling Festival
No full textThis research project aims to analytically conceptualise the collaborative creation in the meeting between the tourist gaze, colonial logics in the production of historical locations, and the performative aspects that emerged at the second edition of Marrakech International Storytelling Festival (MISF) in 2023. In the first part of a two- part analysis, the section "Production of Locations" examines the colonial and postcolonial logics that have shaped Marrakesh as a tourist destination and provided the historical context for the festival. The second part, "The Good Story," analyses the performative aspects of the city's tourism industry, local storytelling tradition as well as the role of the storyteller. This part also deals with the issues of power and authority ingrained in the notion of authenticity. Drawing on postcolonial tourism literature, ethnographic tourism studies and performance theory, this study contributes to the ongoing discussion on the role of tourism in shaping historical narratives and the importance of recognising the performative dimensions in constructing locality. Finally, the project concludes that MISF can be conceptualised as a scene of place- making, facilitating the practice of storytelling, but doing so through a prism of colonial narratives as a result of its geo-historical emergence
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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