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CRÓNICAS DEL PUEBLO Y DEL PAÍS: CUÉNTAME CÓMO PASÓ Y LA TRANSICIÓN ESPAÑOLA A LA DEMOCRACIA
No full textPh.D.The “Spanish model” of Transition from dictatorship to democracy continues to provoke controversy in political and academic circles, as well as in the media, and to raise questions on strategies for consensus. My dissertation “Crónicas del pueblo y del país: Cuéntame cómo pasó y la Transición española a la democracia,” analyzes the ideological construction of memory of the Spanish democratic Transition in a highly popular series of Spanish public television. Through the lens of daily life experiences of a middle-class Spanish family, Cuéntame cómo pasó re-writes national history from the last years of Franco’s rule up to the transition to democracy and the first decade of Spain as a democratic state. Using the dynamics of family relations as a metaphor for the process of political change, I explore how the democratization of a rigid patriarchal order in Spain results from the pact-making strategies of a political class unaccustomed to doing “politics”—that is, to reach consensus among a large number of antagonistic voices for an adequate governance of the country. I argue that similar to the pact-making operating model of political reform, the democratization of the Spanish family in the years of the Transition does not imply a clean break with patriarchal order but a gradual transformation of this structure by opening spaces for negotiation and liberation.In this project, I examine how Cuéntame cómo pasó articulates the memories that were pushed to the margins by the official narrative—based on the idea of a consensus between the political elite and the general population of Spain—by addressing the interests of less-represented social groups, including dissidents and other minorities. I conclude that, by virtue of the diversity of its characters and their experiences, the series offers heterogeneous versions of the historical memory of the Transition, thus challenging the official discourse on pact and consensus. In doing so, Cuéntame cómo pasó reveals a number of issues unresolved during the Transition such as the absence of reparation for the victims of the Francoist repression, the lack of candor during the political pact-making, and the failure to eradicate the major institutions of the old regime
Longing for Return: An Existential Search and Identity Formation in Almodovar’s Volver
No full textThis essay explores Almodovar’s construction of female characters in his film Volver (2006), in which the strength of the protagonists’ maternal instinct foments their willpower and vital energy leading them to come to terms with past experiences of emotional and sexual abuse. At the center of interpretation of this cinematographic work is the Nietzschean term of the eternal return, developed in his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, according to which, all the events of the past and present have already occurred at some time, will repeat themselves in the future ad infinitum and can be visually represented by a kind of incessant wheel or circle with no beginning or end formed by the past and future. In this vein, my reading of Volver examines how “the unconditional and infinitely repeated circular course of” events (Nehamas 1985, 146) forges the existential search and self-realization of Almodovar’s characters. The analysis concludes that such reoccurrence of the traumatic events allows the female protagonists to unfold the secrets of their past, and by virtue of discovery, redemption, and reconciliation, to recover the lost family bond ultimately reviving the fractured symbiosis between these women and reasserting their will to improve their individual and collective future
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
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
Voces en Disensión: la Articulación de Archivos Silenciados
No full textLa iniciativa «Voces en disensión» tiene comoobjetivo recopilar y poner a disposición en formato digitaltestimonios, cartas y otras narrativas producidas por víctimasde la opresión política de diferentes espacios geográficos através del Atlántico. Al recuperar las voces silenciadas detrásde las narrativas oficiales, esta base de datos en línea de accesoabierto proporcionará herramientas indispensables para reescribirla historia de los regímenes autoritarios desde los márgenes.Al proporcionar una extensa base de datos de discursos nohegemónicos en una variedad de contextos políticos y sociales, elproyecto complementará los estudios europeos y latinoamericanosexistentes e invitará a más investigación interdisciplinaria ytransnacional. «Voces en disensión» ofrece un primer estudioexhaustivo de relatos personales de persecución y represióncontra determinados antecedentes históricos y su impactoen la formación de la memoria colectiva en las sociedadescontemporáneas. La digitalización de estos textos permitirárealizar análisis de metadatos y adoptar enfoques comparativospara una amplia gama de esfuerzos de investigació
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