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Building animal nations: industrial animal agriculture in the making of Catalonia and Scotland
No full textWhile the social sciences have explored intertwining ideas and practices relating to nature,
development, and the nation, the role of nonhuman animals in the making of less conventional
varieties of the nation has received less attention. By looking at industrial pig farming in
Catalonia (Spain) and salmon aquaculture in Scotland (United Kingdom), this thesis analyses
the ways in which industrial animal agriculture economically fuels the aforementioned stateless
nations’ state-building projects and materially grounds the nation-building imaginaries that
legitimise them. Combining perspectives from more-than-human geographies and political
ecologies, this thesis examines the productive contradictions of industrial animal agriculture
through its three main structural characteristics: integration, concentration, and confinement.
Focusing on these three qualities, this research explores the reinvention of animal agriculture
as a catalyst for economic development; the global circulations of nature rendered into animal
feed, food, and waste; and the biosecurity interventions concerning nonhuman animals’
movement and disease. By viewing farmed animals as resources embedded in multiple layers
of extraction and remaking, the thesis examines the often-unacknowledged spaces they occupy
in societal structures and national imaginaries. Via this tripartite analysis, the thesis
demonstrates (i) the mobilisation of animals, both materially and symbolically, to advance
state-building in the context of the nation-building ambitions of stateless nations; (ii) the
intersection and reinforcement of state-building projects of different nations, conventional and
stateless, despite adverse cross-border socio-ecological and animal impacts; and (iii) the
prioritisation of these industries’ demands over those of the nation, evidenced by the
contradictory biosecurity processes sustaining these agricultural activities. Attentive to animals
as more than resources, the thesis concludes by considering the ways in which animals could
become not only ‘the what’, but ‘the who’ of the nation. These findings suggest that, despite
being often seen as radically different from their host states, the building of these stateless
nations through industrial animal agriculture takes analogous forms by reproducing growth-oriented development and linked notions of multispecies belonging and value. Consequently,
to understand and advocate for alternatives to current configurations of industrial animal
agriculture in Catalonia and Scotland, we need to consider the critical role of nation- and state-building projects in establishing, shaping, and, most significantly, safeguarding them in the
first place
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
1093, abril 1. Donació
No full textDonació que fan Ramon Guillem, Tomàs Sesmundi i Guillem Gaubert, marmessors de Pere Guifred, a Santa Maria de Vilabertran de l'alou que aquest tenia al comtat de Peralada, a les parròquies de Santa Eulàlia de Noves i Sant Martí de Peralada, exceptuant-ne una possessió deixada al seu germà Ramon Guillem, situada a Mated i Palol, i a Reixach o Coma Durabilem, i una altra possessió llegada a la seva tia Sicardis,situada a Mated i Camp d'Elie
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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