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Foreword
Get PDFIn the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often focus on the abstract city level with marginal attention given to particular local contexts. Moving away from loosely defined urban theories and contexts, this book argues it is time to start learning from and compare across different 'contested cities'. It questions the long-standing Euro-centric academic knowledge production that is prevalent in urban studies and planning research. This book brings together a diverse range of international case studies from Latin America, South and South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to offer an in-depth understanding of the worldwide contested nature of cities in a wide range of local contexts. It suggests an urban ontology that moves beyond the urban 'West' and 'North' as well as adding a comparative-relational understanding of the contested nature that 'Southern' cities are developing. This timely contribution is essential reading for those working in the fields of human geography, urban studies, planning, politics, area studies and sociology. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Jonathan Rokem and Camillo Boano; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved
Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics: Inhabiting Violence
Get PDFThis introduction to the special section explores geopolitical dimensions of conflict and violence in cities, pointing at the need to continue learning from marginal urban settings. It broadens the scope across differentiated approaches, such as the francophone and anglophone urban geopolitical traditions. By opening up a wider perspective, the emphasis is not on cities as part of a matrix of global hierarchies of geographical power but on the multiscalar relational significance of urban geopolitical inquiry. The introduction positions the special section articles within a wider review of urban geopolitical provocations outlining a new political vocabulary of urban conflict and violence. It concludes with a general call for a methodological and empirical broadening of the field of urban geopolitics as part of a broader de-colonial social and spatial science research agenda bridging the disciplines of political geography, urban studies, architecture and planning
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
Exploring the Roots of Contested Public Spaces of Cairo:Using Self-organization as Alternative Lens
No full textFor decades, public space as a concept in Egypt has been systematically deprived of its essential symbolic functions. Upon integrating the country into the global model of neoliberalism, the state has adopted public policies on various scales which resulted in a deep-rooted crisis of participation and identity, materially manifested in the public spaces of metropolitan cities. In this chapter, I utilize the notions of complexity to explore the roots of this crisis. This approach allows for understanding this crisis as a result of path-dependent shifts in society, stemming from thresholds that stretch back from the post-colonial condition to the rise of social media
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
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
Contested meanings of the Deptford Creekside Arches [DCA] urban art palimpsest
No full textThe research's purpose was to gain insight into the processes and practices of urban art at Deptford Creekside Arches (DCA). There has, to my knowledge, been no other research completed on this topic. My aims and objectives were based on discovering the artists motivations and intentions on getting the urban art 'up' at DCA. I employed mixed research methods, consecutively; including a spontaneous telephone interview and a structured, remote interview for two professional and academic artists, a spontaneous wall interview with a single painter, an observation of a small group and a semi-structured interview with a lone urban artist, a formally structured public on-site public interview (with thirty-eight participants), an e-mailed questionnaire with one other public interviewee and a structured remote interview with the British Transport Police (involving two officers). The results revealed that the urban art walls; are tolerated and that the activity is more meaningful than the art itself, with the walls a focal point of interest for walkway users. The authorities were generally benign and understanding, only removing images if controversial, or offensive, in terms of messaging with urban art activity tolerated. The main take-home message is the meaning of the urban art movement. Additional findings of note are the use of the walls as a designated, practice palette. The main implication for the future: is the potential for increasingly draconian and punitive approaches by the authorities from a legal enforcement perspective
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
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