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DOSSIER: REFRAMING AFRICAN MONETARY HISTORY: A SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
Full text linkThe articles presented in this dossier of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History result from a workshop held at the University of the Free State on 13 and 14 September 2022 themed “Money and Monetary Institutions in Africa”.1 The workshop aimed to bring together early career scholars in Africa with an interest in the monetary history of the continent. Three mentors — Lyla Latif, Tinashe Nyamunda, and Ayodeji Olukoju —gave feedback on the research papers presented and sparked a lively and thought-provoking two-day discussion.2 Our workshop also aimed to enrich the contemporary debates regarding money in Africa, moving the first steps towards an analytical framework for studying money in Africa developed by scholars based on the continent. The objective of the workshop was ambitious, as it placed itself in the tradition of studies originating from the seminal book edited by Jane E. Guyer, Money Matters, which laid new approaches for the study of money in Africa and its specificities, overcoming the narration of a “primitive” African monetary system that had been forcibly replaced with the introduction of “modern” money. Before Money Matters, the history of money in Africa was polarised around the debate among those embracing a formalist approach (extending the principles of neoclassical economics to African societies) and the advocates of a substantivist approach, according to whom the study of economic exchange in societies without “the market” required the development of different tools, closer to the cultural specificities of the societies to which they were applied.3
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
‘Chakachenjedza Ndochakatanga (Once Beaten Twice Shy)!’: Zimbabwe and the Economics of Mistrust
Full text linkThis article details Zimbabwe’s enduring monetary crisis by using the concept of trust in economics. It posits that mistrust between citizens and the state and the mistrust among citizens themselves significantly accounts for Zimbabwe’s never-ending economic malaise. In the economy of mistrust, actors operate on the belief that monetary policy will unceremoniously change as has happened many times before — hence, the ChiShona idiom chakachenjedza ndochakatanga, which encourages one to stand guard, aptly describes the prevailing economic scenario. In making its arguments, the paper historicises monetary developments in Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980 to 2022. During the period under review, money became the primary commodity bought and sold on the local market, forcing every individual and entity to trade in money. Relying on monetary and fiscal policy statements, newspapers, statutory instruments and interviews, the article concentrates on the overt actions of the state in creating and sustaining the economics of mistrust and how economic players navigated it. It reveals three aspects of Zimbabwe’s monetaryhistory that are veiled or absent in the literature. First, it demonstrates the politics of money and monetary institutions, arguing that the ruling ZANU-PF uses the monetary system as a tool for regime survival. Secondly, it describes the impact of monetary policy pronouncements on the day-to-day practicalities of navigating Zimbabwe’s economic landscape.Finally, it questions aspects of economic orthodoxy, particularly the spirit and consequences of central bank independence and how the regulation has manifested in Zimbabwe’s monetary system
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