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Queer Memory in (re)constituting the trans lesbian 1970s in the UK
Full text linkTrans life, experiences and bodies raise important challenges for the constitution of queer memories. Working from archive sources and a conversation between the author and writer Roz Kaveney, this chapter approaches problems in (re)constituting queer memories of trans lesbian lives, political organising and desires in 1970s Britain. Studying materials and memories from the London Gay Liberation Front’s Transsexual, Transvestite and Drag Queen Group (GLF TS/TV Group) and the publication Lesbians Come Together, I consider the desires and politics articulated by trans lesbians, and the intersection of trans and lesbian sociality in the early ‘70s.
The GLF TS/TV group provide a glimpse into the possibilities for trans liberation at the time, articulating a counter-narrative to psychiatry and individual narratives of trans people from the period that have tended to focus on surgery and social transition. The counter-narrative of trans lesbians provides the opportunity to address the effects of legal and illegal drugs, healthcare, and trauma on the memory of trans lives and experiences.
I detail how accounts and oral histories of the London GLF have framed and denounced the role of trans people in gay liberation. These accounts eschew the social and material conditions of trans lives, encoding cis-normative readings of the gay liberation movement that have lasting implications for trans lives and bodies. The essay considers how trans activists and scholars – including Carol Riddell and the journal Radical Deviance – worked to document and unearth the lives of trans people during the 1970s. I attend to the deeply affective forms of labour demanded in processes of remembering and forgetting, inscribing, un-archiving, and imagining across separations in the archive
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
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
Stirred in the dance, light upon appliqués: Debjani Banerjee’s Jalsaghar
Full text linkExhibition Text for Debjani Banerjee's Jalsaghar, Glasgow CCA, September - November 2024.
The text discusses Banerjee's practice, situating it with historical framings and concerns of Bengali diaspora in the UK (such as nostalgia), and in the context of contemporary Bengali feminist struggles in India and in diaspora (including Reclaim the Night, Reclaim the Rights 2024). It discusses everyday dreaming and Banerjee's feminist refocusing of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. It considers referencial gazes, materials, threads, agency, gendered forms of violence, representations and community
Breaking ground, cripping mirrors; or lesbians don’t waltz by themselves: on Jacqui Duckworth’s A Prayer Before Birth
Full text linkThe third film of Jacqui Duckworth, A Prayer Before Birth (1991), shot in 16mm and running twenty minutes, might have gathered dust in the context of LGBTQ (sub)cultures and experimental British cinema in the years between it’s completion and the recent revival of interest in it’s director. In the space that emerges between fiction, personal experience and surrealism, A Prayer enacts an avant-garde lesbian aesthetic working to come to terms with being in a disabled body, that places the emotional turbulence of this experience front and centre while confronting affects through which ableism coheres. The film directly addresses the troubles of producing a (crip) lesbian gaze, a perspective that emerges via breakups, the deployment of melodramatic horror, and sitting at the table with emerging challenges of undertaking essential activities in life. It’s also in the space between crip embodiment, emotional turbulence and confronting ableism in which Duckworth’s synthesis of a crip lesbian visual language, through the character of Marsha as played by Adjoa Andoh, seems to encode a disabled black lesbian desire that diverges from Duckworth's autobiography – but more on that later. Centring the film, this essay discusses the substance of this synthesis, alongside the affective possibilities that are carried through it by the Director
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