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Sari Hanafi, professeur de sociologie, Université américaine de Beyrouth — 06-15/01/2014
No full textSari Hanafi est professeur de sociologie à l'Université américaine de Beyrouth (AUB) et rédacteur en chef de Idafat : la revue arabe de sociologie et membre du comité exécutive de l’Association international de Sociologie. Docteur de l’École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales de Paris, il est spécialisé en sociologie politique, en sociologie de la connaissance et en sociologie de migration appliquées sur les réfugiés Palestiniens. Il a co-édité avec A. Ophir et M. Givoni l’ouvrage The Pow..
Parution : Sari Hanafi, Studying Islam in the Arab World. The Rupture Between Religion and the Social Sciences, Routledge, 2024
No full text Studying Islam in the Arab WorldThe Rupture Between Religion and the Social SciencesBy Sari Hanafi Addressing the rupture between religious and social sciences in Arab universities, this book provides a critical assessment of the curricula of Shariah and Islamic Studies departments across the Arab World, arguing for increased interdisciplinary dialogue. Based on over 250 interviews with university students and teachers, this study is the sum of five years of field research observ..
Arab Higher Education and Research post–2011. An Interview with Sari Hanafi
No full textThe upheavals of 2011 and subsequent developments in the MENA region have had substantial effects on universities and research centers within Arab world and in other neighboring countries where similar developments are taking shape (security issues, stricter political control/lesser levels of political control and repression, changing levels of funding, changing focus of donors etc.). META had the opportunity to talk with Sari Hanafi about the repercussions of these developments for scholarly work within the MENA region.Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology and chair of the department of sociology, anthropology and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is also the editor of Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology (Arabic). He is the Vice President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and Vice President of the board of the Arab Council of Social Science. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the political and economic sociology of the Palestinian diaspora and refugees; sociology of migration; transnationalism; politics of scientific research; civil society and elite formation and transitional justice. His last book is Arab Research and Knowledge Society: New Critical Perspective (with R. Arvanitis) (in Arabic, Beirut: CAUS and forthcoming in English with Routledge)
"No Bread, No Freedom, No Social Justice. How EU–Egyptian Human Rights Discourse Undermines Democracy"
No full textConventional approaches to democratization in the Middle East take for granted the priority of some civil–-political rights (e.g., voting) over others (e.g., rights of association or protest, socio-economic rights). The discursive structure of these approaches has framed both the promotion of democracy by the EU European Union and regional governments’ counter--conductive re-framing against that effort. But this pas de deux is part of a broader dynamic in which the common ground shared by both these two efforts frames democracy so as to deny and delegitimize both the conception of democracy held by Middle Eastern and North African MENA populations themselves and the political and socio-economic demands of those same populations. Governments, in short, are engaged in “counter--conducting” their own populations. Drawing on critical discourse analysis of key documents, public opinion survey data, and activist interviews, an analysis of the Egyptian case shows that the discursive competition between governments is (also) a dance around democracy which seeks to avoid the more radical, egalitarian demands by populations
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
The Pen and the Sword: The Narrow Margin of Academic Freedom in the Arab World
No full textBy Sari Hanafi “Those who are afraid do not innovate.” (Zewail, 2005: 166). Sari Hanafi. Photo: private. By academic freedoms, I mean the freedom of thought and of creating new ideas and the freedom of expression through teaching, conferences, research, and publications. I also refer to the right to protest against the public educational institution; the right to regulate and manage the university without government or security interference; and the right to protect the university from ..
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