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Race, Religion and Counter-Hegemonic Practice in Empson, Williams and Freire
Get PDFThis chapter explores the place of race and religion in the work of Raymond Williams and Paulo Freire. Beginning with a discussion of William Empson’s Structure of Complex Words (1951), it argues that the work of Empson was a greater influence on Williams’s work than has previously been realised, especially in using social linguistics to analyse culture. However, there are also two key elements in Empson for which there are no equivalent in Williams: a Christian sensibility and a Eurocentric perspective which fails to incorporate racial diversity. Williams’s Culture and Society (1958), Keywords (1976) and Marxism and Literature (1977) are all rooted in the work of Empson but say virtually nothing about either religion or race and the jettisoning of these things has a series of very precise effects. Positively, it enables Williams to move away from the Eurocentric racial politics of Empson so that his work can be read as a corrective to his predecessor’s in this regard. On the other hand, the opportunity to identify forms of counter-hegemonic relationships that a sociology of religious organisations can provide is missed – and Williams interprets organisations of religion solely as organs of the dominant ideology. The problem with this assumption is that it fails to account for how the kinds of relationship that typify faith-based communities (of all kinds) are inflected by experiences of race and can provide instances of counter-hegemonic solidarity. This, the chapter argues, is why it is worth reading Williams alongside his exact contemporary Paulo Freire, because in Freire’s work a connection between a critical racial politics and an acknowledgement of the contribution certain religious communities can potentially make to that politics can be re-established
Cem anos de Amílcar Cabral: lutas e memórias
No full textNo centenário de Amílcar Cabral, nascido em Bafatá em 1924, na atual Guiné-Bissau, a Editora Expressão Popular, dentro da série “Marxismo do terceiro milênio”, lança em comemoração uma coletânea de discursos proferidos por ele, tendo em vista manter vivas as frentes de trabalho e de interesses desse importante revolucionário e pensador, também conhecido por “pedagogo da revolução”, que liderou a luta armada e diplomática contra o colonialismo explorador e o capital imperialista em África. On the centenary of Amílcar Cabral, born in Bafatá in 1924, in present-day Guinea-Bissau, Editora Expressão Popular, as part of its “Marxism in the Third Millennium” series, is launching a commemorative collection of speeches given by him, with a view to keeping alive the work and interests of this important revolutionary and thinker, also known as the “pedagogue of the revolution,” who led the armed and diplomatic struggle against exploitative colonialism and imperialist capital in Africa.No centenário de Amílcar Cabral, nascido em Bafatá em 1924, na atual Guiné-Bissau, a Editora Expressão Popular, dentro da série “Marxismo do terceiro milênio”, lança em comemoração uma coletânea de discursos proferidos por ele, tendo em vista manter vivas as frentes de trabalho e de interesses desse importante revolucionário e pensador, também conhecido por “pedagogo da revolução”, que liderou a luta armada e diplomática contra o colonialismo explorador e o capital imperialista em África. 
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
PAULO FREIRE
Get PDFNesta entrevista concedida ao Jornal “Nô Pintcha”, de Guiné-Bissau, no ano de 1977, Paulo Freire fala das suas ideias em torno da educação vinculada à revolução. Inscreve-se no tempo presente, refletindo a luz da problemática contemporânea. Entre os temas abordados: alfabetização, militância, Forças Armadas Revolucionárias do Povo (FARP), educação e revolução. A publicação da entrevista, por meio da transcrição e do ineditismo da fonte, inaugura pontes com a atualidade, na perspectiva Freireana capaz de alargar o entendimento das suas propostas para a libertação, emancipação e conscientização humanas
Fases do exílio, sob as faces do tempo - Processos da pesquisa (em andamento) sobre Elza Freire
No full textEste trabalho integra pesquisa sobre Elza Freire, constituindo-se por resultados parciais de doutoramento. O escopo compreende o recorte temporal 1964/ 1980, e objetiva pensar o exílio brasileiro a partir de Elza Freire e sua família. Justifica-se tanto pelo caráter histórico ao discutir fatos passados, quanto pela ponte que estabelece com o presente/futuro na construção de sociedades mais igualitárias. O cenário nacional e internacional é parte de um processo que acometeu homens e mulheres brasileiro(a)s exilado(a)s, as experiências de Elza Freire se entrelaçam à essa realidade. O foco é discutir o exílio como experiência social, coletiva e ao mesmo tempo individual, que guarda relação com a dimensão histórica, sociocultural e político-pedagógica das situações vivenciadas. O caminho teórico-metodológico em construção se fundamenta nos aportes da abordagem qualitativa, estruturados segundo uma lógica indutiva. Diversos instrumentos de coleta de informação foram mobilizados, no intento de articular o conjunto de fontes: primárias, documentais e não documentais, destacando os manuscritos produzidos por Elza Freire, as décadas expostas cronologicamente para a composição histórica, bem como produzir conexões de sentido para o que denomino diáspora brasileira. Acreditamos que recuperar memórias, investigar processos, é também uma forma de impedir a repetição de governos ditatoriais e terrorismos de Estado, é recusar situações sociais de opressão, exclusão e violação de direitos, é fortalecer princípios de liberdade e de vida, ideais que coadunam com a construção de sociedades mais justas, dignas, humanas e amorosas
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