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Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicising sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher
Get PDFJoanna Bourke’s career as a social and cultural historian span more than three decades. She is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, a Fellow of the British Academy and the current Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the prizewinning author of sixteen books, including histories of violence, modern warfare, medicine and science, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, pain and what it means to be human. Her ground-breaking 2007 book Rape debunked ‘theories’ espoused by academics, doctors, lawyers and scientists that it was women who were responsible for rape; she insisted that we place the responsibility for sexual violence firmly with the rapist. It catalysed a new and vibrant scholarship. In 2018, Bourke established the Wellcome Trust-funded Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SHaME) Research Hub at Birkbeck to explore the role of medicine and psychiatry in sexual violence. The reflections below are based on a conversation between Bourke and Ruth Beecher, a post-doctoral historian and applied researcher in the SHaME team. It took place on the publication of Bourke’s new book, Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence, published by Reaktion Books in July 2022. Disgrace explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, delving into the factors that facilitate violence and giving voice to survivors and activists. Ultimately, Bourke argues for a transnational feminism that will promote a rape- and violence-free world
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher
No full textRape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beeche
Interview with Ruth Beecher in Gipsy Hill, London, England 10.04.2018.
Get PDFRuth Beecher was interviewed by her eldest daughter Amy. Ruth was born in Cork in 1968, the elder of two children. She describes secondary school, holidays in East Cork, and her social life as a teenager which included drinking underage in pubs and having house parties. Ruth talks about her parents’ difficult relationship. She describes her mother’s depression (following her own’s mother’s suicide when she was in her twenties) and hospitalisation for ‘a breakdown’ after giving birth to Ruth. Ruth describes ‘glorious’ teenage years in Cork, the move to London at the age of twenty in 1989 and life as a new emigrant. Ruth describes her unplanned pregnancy and being an anxious and self-conscious new mother. She talks about her excitement at being higher education at Birkbeck, University of London in the early 1990s and wonders if she would have ever been able to take up those opportunities to self-fund a BA, MA and PhD had university fees been as expensive then as they are today
‘Why did you kill that person and not someone else?’: Sharing oral histories of restorative justice. Keeva Baxter in conversation with public history editor Ruth Beecher
No full textUndertaking oral history research with people who have engaged in restorative justice processes brings specific challenges, especially when the intention from the outset is to make the resulting testimonies public. Below, public history editor Ruth Beecher interviews Keeva Baxter of the charity Why me? Baxter led ‘Damage and Repair,’ an oral history project set up to record the memories of those who were central to establishing restorative justice practices in the UK, including the victims and perpetrators of crimes. They discuss the risks and benefits of providing access to these difficult histories
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
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