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Different jars
No full textThere will be no return to the “salad days” of poetry, not because there is no longer an attachment between the great-ones that have lain along the worn road of poetry & those lucky few whom choose similar roads, but because we are unwilling to see what exists in our own jars of creativity. It seems that we either steal from our predecessors—making it so new poets are no different than the old—or feign growing & learning in our private, sealed jars. A jar is only what is inside of it. If left empty, it is no longer a jar. Too often, poets seem speaking to & taking from the same old jar. There is nothing wrong with old jars, but if we do not fill in old jars with new content, all is lost. Broken into five sections, Different Jars analyzes the place of the poet today through a lens of religion, family, war, city-life & our predecessors. While inspecting what was poetry & what has it done for us lately, the poems beg one question: What is poetry? Though similar themes & questions breathe in the manuscript, the use of portmanteaus (or cobbled-words) to comment on attachments made with poetry & words—both individually & as a society—was essential. If a jar is opened & used enough, some spills will occur. The beauty of it—the poetry—is in what is left on our countertops, a mix of many flavors. The question for the reader is what tastes best.M.F.A.by Scott Michael OliverPoem
Campbell County Cattlemen's Association Members Directory
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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
Replication Data for: Dropping off the bandwagon
No full textThis paper builds upon established elements of resource mobilisation theory to explain how civil society organisations (CSOs) react to politicisation. Its key theoretical innovation is to foreground the search for organisational maintenance that is an implicit assumption of the resource mobilisation hypothesis. It argues that as politicisation increases, most civil society organizations should be expected to defect from policy bandwagons because they do not have the capacity to offer purposive and solidary incentives to potential supporters. The argument is tested using measures of network centrality from an online forum (Twitter) as a predictor for ongoing participation in campaigns against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The findings show that once the decision to engage in outside lobbying has been made, the need to ensure organizational survival explains ongoing participation better than the increased salience and declining public support which encourages CSOs to get involved in the first place. This is especially evident in European Union member states where they do not have meaningful avenues for political participation. The findings contribute to the literature on politicisation, interest groups and the domestication of European politics
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 ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE SPATIAL STRATEGIES IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK OF PALESTINE
Full text linkThe ‘struggle over geography’ (Said, 1993, p. 6) which has defined the conflict between Israel and Palestine has had a comprehensively negative effect on the natural and social environment, architecture, and sustainability of the built environment of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). This protracted political context has created a built, social, and natural environment which Palestinian architect Omar Yousef refers to as a ‘forced ecology’. According to Yousef, this ecology is a reaction to the necessities of everyday life and is characterised by an environment of ‘crowdedness, instability, temporariness, destruction and improvisation’ (cited in Zandberg, 2010).
Since the Israeli occupation in 1967, the policies enforced by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) have created a spatial 'ethnocracy' in the OPT (Yiftachel, 2006), a system of spatial repression which is enforced via numerous architectural, environmental, and planning strategies (Weizman, 2004, 2007). However, this process is not without opposition and is countered by various spatial and environmental strategies instigated by the Palestinian population, NGOs, INGOs, and international activists including Israelis.
The research therefore aimed to analyse existing modes of strategic intervention undertaken by these groups in the occupied West Bank of Palestine which address issues of sustainability from the mitigation and challenging of the Israeli occupation, to the longer term shaping of the political process.
The research identifies sustainability within a Palestinian context as differing greatly from a traditional understanding of the concept, especially in terms of its political agency which is expressed through the concept of environmental justice.
It was identified that sustainability in the context of the occupied West Bank of Palestine (as expressed as environmental justice) is initiated via a triad of strategies relating to Conflict Transformation, Resilience, and Resistance.
These strategies were further investigated via a series of case studies in order to identify the obstacles, impact, opportunities, and shortfalls of these approaches.
Ultimately an investigation of sustainability within this ‘laboratory of the extreme’ (Weizman, 2007, p. 9), aimed to highlight the political and socially transformative nature inherent in the production of sustainable space
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