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Introduction: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Emotions
No full textThe study of emotions in international relations, understood in a broad sense, has become a vibrant field over the past 15 years. A brief overview of the growing number of publications shows a variety of (conflicting) ontological, epistemological and theoretical positions on the nature and role of emotions in world politics. Methodological issues have not yet gained as much attention, despite calls to address the challenges and opportunities associated with emotion research in IR. After sketching the general methodological trends in current scholarship, we present six key methodological issues that need to be considered for the empirical study of emotions. The volume’s rationale focuses on plurality—by presenting diverse methodological approaches—and practicality—by providing research-practical insights from the authors’ own experience. The volume can be read in various ways depending on the reader’s interests in a specific ontological position or in a concrete methodology. Two overview tables provide further orientation and present the limits and advantages of each approach according to its author(s)
Krieg ohne Heimatfront?
No full text„Der Krieg findet nicht statt“ – Baudrillards Diktum zum Ersten Irakkrieg im Jahr 1991 scheint eine durchaus zutreffende Charakterisierung westlicher Kriege nach dem Kalten Krieg zu sein. Militärische Konfrontationen, so scheint es, haben sich in den zwei Jahrzehnten nach Ende des Kalten Krieges zunehmend von der Oder-Neiße-Grenze an den Hindukusch verlagert. Doch es ist nicht nur die geographische Distanz, durch die der Krieg in den westlichen Gesellschaften immer mehr aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein rückt. Vielmehr tragen zunehmend diffuse Feindbilder, die Transformation der medialen Kriegsbilder vom blutigen Heldenepos hin zu einer sterilen Technologiedemonstration, oder auch die verschwindend geringe Zahl von „eigenen“ Gefallenen zur Wahrnehmung bei, dass heutige Kriege vor allem die „Anderen“, bisweilen „Andersartigen“ betreffen. So beteiligte sich Deutschland zwischen 2003 und 2014 an einem Krieg, der mehr als doppelt so lange dauerte wie der Zweite Weltkrieg – und trotzdem schien die Gesellschaft diesen Krieg erst dann als solchen wahrzunehmen, als mehr als 100 Zivilisten infolge des Befehls eines deutschen Offiziers bei einem Luftangriff starben.-- Editorial : Krieg ohne Heimatfront? Die Präsenz des Krieges in westlichen Gesellschaften
-- Udo Tietz : Auschwitz und die Moderne. Über die geschichtsphilosophische Bedeutung von Katastrophen
-- Pascal Vennesson : Krieg ohne die Bevölkerung
-- Michael Daxner : Abzug aus Afghanistan – Vorschau auf ein neues Narrativ
-- Paul Dixon : Die Militarisierung der britischen Demokratie
-- Eric Sangar : Strategisches Denken in Deutschland nach Afghanistan. Die Renaissance der Technokraten der Gewalt?
-- Mathias Delori : Was ist aus den „Rittern der Lüfte” geworden? Asymmetrische Kriege und das Ethos des Militärs
-- Roland Benedikter : „Fuck the EU“. Die USA und die Ostpolitik der EU
-- Frank Adler : Postwachstumsvisionen. Zu einer neuen Tendenz in der wachstumskritischen Debatte
-- Besprechungen und Rezensionen :
-- Camilla Warnke : „An der ideologischen Front“. Zur Edition von Wolfgang Harichs. Schriften aus dem Nachlass
-- Wladislaw Hedeler : Die späte Rückkehr der Exilanten aus der UdSSR
-- Christopher Clark : Die Schlafwandler. Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog. Rezensiert von Alexander Reichwein
-- Ulf Faller : Der Kruzifixstreit oder Warum Schule säkular sein muss. Rezensiert von Christoph Hors
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
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