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Towards justice and human development in the South Pacific: how Australia can do better
No full textStewart Firth argues that while Australia\u27s policies towards the Pacific are generally on the right track, we need to rethink our aid program and consider new initiatives, including seasonal work programs for unskilled islanders
Australia and the South Pacific: Rising to the challenge
No full textAustralia\u27s vital interests are involved in the South Pacific: the stability of the region is an important factor in our own security, and this translates into on-going defence, security, economic, aid, environmental and humanitarian activities. The island states of the South Pacific face severe challenges to the security needs of their peoples. At the same time they also have advantages that can be leveraged with the right policies. Australia\u27s vital interests are involved in the South Pacific: the stability of the region is an important factor in our own security, and this translates into on-going defence, security, economic, aid, environmental and humanitarian activities.
This report offers a range of suggestions that should be considered in the development of Australia\u27s regional strategy. Authors are: Stewart Firth, Satish Chand, Andrew Goldsmith and Bob Lowry, Bob Breen, Sam Bateman and Anthony Bergin, Graeme Dobell and Richard Herr
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, 1997, Donald Denoon avec Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisa et Karen Nero éditeurs
No full textNaepels Michel. The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, 1997, Donald Denoon avec Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisa et Karen Nero éditeurs. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 107, 1998-2. p. 236
BOOK REVIEW: Donald Denoon with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero, eds., The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders
Get PDFDonald Denoon with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero, eds., The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 518, index, maps. US$79.95 cloth.
Reviewed by Joel Robbins, University of California, San Dieg
The 2009 Australian defence white paper: analysis and alternatives
No full text John Langmore, Calum Logan and Stewart Firth of the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University assess the 2009 Defence White Paper, starting from “its failure to adequately recognise changes in international paradigms of security and defence” and its over-reliance on “the assumption of recurrent great power conflict”. Langmore and his colleagues argue that “there is a strong case for Australia’s defence planners to temper their realist assumptions with the greater sophistication and complexity inherent in contemporary approaches to security that should play an influential role in the way Australia approaches the world.” “The White Paper”, they argue, “makes a fundamental misjudgement in treating defence as a silo remote from other aspects of foreign policy.” They conclude that “the appointment of a new Defence Minister after the 2010 election will create an opportunity for evolution of military strategy as priorities, constraints and opportunities become clearer.
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
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