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What Is to Be Done?:Climate Crisis and Political Activism
No full textFrom a theoretical perspective, there seems to be widespread agreement about the extent, the causes, and the dire consequences of the climate crisis. Such consensus is absent, however, with regard to the practical-political question: what is to be done? Even if it seems obvious that a fundamental and global change of the economic and political system — a revolution of the whole mode of living — is necessary, it is unclear how exactly this can be achieved. What are the necessary and legitimate forms and means of such a transformation? To what extent are new forms of protest needed to respond to the urgency of the situation? What forms of disobedience and disruption or adaptation and moderation are necessary?
Andreas Malm is an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University. He is the author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (2016) and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (2021).
Rupert Read is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, a Green party campaigner and a former spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion. He is the author of This Civilisation is Finished (2019) and Parents for the Future: How Loving Our Children Can Prevent Climate Collapse (2021).
Eva von Redecker is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Verona. She is the author of Praxis and Revolution. A Social Theory of Radical Change (2018) and Revolution für das Leben. Philosophie der neuen Protestformen (2020).
Robin Celikates is professor of philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and co-director. He is the co-author of Sozialphilosophie. Eine Einführung (2017) with Rahel Jaeggi and co-editor of Analyzing Ideology (2019) with Sally Haslanger and Jason Stanle
On Rupert Read\u27s \u3ci\u3ePhilosophy for Life\u3c/i\u3e
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One of the tasks of a reviewer is to find and recommend the proper readership of a given book. Some books are highly specialized; some are introductory enough to be used in class, while others are for the general public. This relatively minor task is difficult to achieve with Rupert Read\u27s Philosophy for Life. As the subtitle indicates, this short manuscript is meant to apply philosophy in politics and culture. In recent years, we have seen a number of books – and entire series – dedicated to bringing philosophy to ordinary life. Such works usually flesh out and clarify a philosophical theme or a philosopher\u27s work in clear terms and proceed to apply it to more available issues – usually from popular culture. Read\u27s book does not choose this style, but I am not convinced his way leads to any further or better application of philosophy to life
DNV ICAEW Seminar recording 27-06-19
No full textThese videos were taken at a seminar hosted by ICAEW, as part of the Debating Nature's Project, on 27 June 2019. PI Dr Rupert Read introduces the seminar and format, followed by Co-I Prof Aled Jones, Chair of the seminar, talking about the series aims before introducing ICAEW partner, Richard Spencer, and the speakers.These seminars encourage those involved in accounting to engage in the debate around valuations of natural capital. Prof Richard Murphy talks about his paper on Sustainable Cost Accounting, followed by Prof Victor Anderson discussing his paper on the
concept of natural capital and the problems with it's inclusion in policy making.</div
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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