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Ripensare le politiche di sviluppo locale in Italia: un approccio territoriale-relazionale
No full textRileggendo i dibattiti recenti negli studi regionali critici di lingua inglese, l’articolo propone un approccio “territoriale-relazionale” alle politiche di sviluppo regionale in Italia, muovendo dall’assunto del polimorfismo delle configurazioni e relazioni socio-spaziali. L’articolo offre evidenza di tale apparato concettuale, proponendo un modello di politica regionale incentrato sull’idea di “coalizioni transregionali per lo sviluppo locale”, alla luce della situazione di profonda crisi economica che affligge l’Italia in questa faseDrawing on recent debates in Anglophone critical regional studies, this article proposes a ‘territorial-relational approach’ to regional development policy in Italy, which starts methodologically from the assumption about the polymorphism of socio-spatial configurations and relations. The article offers an illustration of this conceptual framework at the public policy level, by putting forward a proposal concerning the formation of ‘transregional coalitions for local economic development’ in a context of deep recession affecting the Italian economy
City-regionalism as a constellation and re-positioning of discourses, practices and actors: insights from post-territorialist Italy.
No full textFrom the rise and subsequent fall of local economic development policies and visions, between the 1990s and the early 2000s, to the recent wave of urban strategic plans, the discoursive construction of urban and regional policies in southern Italy and beyond has been driven, on the one hand, by the evolution of geographical imaginaries about the role and meaning of regional spaces in the national and the world-economy (from new-localism to new-regionalism and then to the currently emerging city-regionalism) and, on the other hand, by the need to accommodate changing interests, claims and regional identities in times of disillusionment toward the virtues of 'territorialism' and the local scale. The paper offers a critical review of this evolution, focusing on how socio-spatial relations (Jessop, Brenner and Jones, 2008) have been dealt with in scholarly and public debates about urban and regional development in southern Italy. In doing so we draw on different and at the same time related theoretical strands in critical urban and regional studies, including cultural political economy (Jessop 2004, Uitermark 2005), governamentality studies (Rose-Miller 1992, Huxley 2007), discourse theory (Laclau-Mouffe 1985, Muller 2008) and post-structuralist network analysis (Law 1994, Latour 2005). The aim is to challenge conventional pluralist ontologies of 'actors', 'networks' and 'regions' and to offer a methodological examination of alternative interpretive frameworks centred on the critical analysis of discourse and the ethnography of the local State
Deconstructing and reconstructing the potential of local and regional development strategies and policies: an internal critique.
No full textLast decades have witnessed the rise of the ‘local’ as an increasingly hegemonic dimension within regional development discourses and strategies. Because of its paradigmatic role in the post-Fordist transition, Italy has been regarded as a strategic field for experimentation of cooperative efforts at promoting local and sustainable development, as well as an arena for place-based struggles and conflicts between different geographic scales. Using illustrative empirical material from both win-win and conflict-ridden multi-level planning initiatives, the paper conceptualises the local as a ‘quasi-object’ having the power of mobilising a variety of actors, representations, intellectual technologies and techniques of government and governance, whose achievements demonstrate not to be always consistent with the meanings and the qualitative features that have been originally associated with ‘local’ practices.
By drawing upon discourse analysis and Actor-Network theory the paper is intended as an attempt to go beyond the spatial fetishism that is dominant in contemporary local development studies. It does so, firstly, by deconstructing some influential ways of understanding the ‘local’ and, secondly, by exploring its reconstructing power in forging both institutions and actors, objects and subjects of regional development
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
Un sistema locale marginale tra cambiamento e continuità: il caso dei Quartieri spagnoli di Napoli
No full textVariations 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
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