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The everyday consequences of hate crime for British Jews
No full textDespite the impact of historic antisemitism on the study of race and racism, and despite its ongoing discussion in the media and politics, there has been limited academic research of antisemitic hate crime in Britain. In particular, little is known about the consequences of antisemitism for British Jews today. Drawn from qualitative research examining Jewish experiences of contemporary antisemitism, this paper discusses the practical significance of hate crime for the everyday lives of Jews. It considers some of the ways in which personal experiences of victimisation, and fears of abuse and prejudice might affect the day to day decisions of those in the minority community. Some of the key issues discussed include the individual management of ‘safe space’, practices to control personal and communal public visibility as Jews in a desire to minimise risk, and the potential impact of antisemitic hate crime on socialisation habits and life choices
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
A question of faith? Prosecuting religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales
No full textGiven impetus by the backlash of incidents of violence and abuse against Muslims in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, provisions for religiously aggravated offences established by the 2001 Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act were aimed to provide protections against attacks on religious identity for believers of all religions. Attacks on faith or religious belief per se, or lack of religious belief, were to be managed by provisions against incitement to religious hatred enacted six years later in 2007. Yet a major and persistent concern in media commentary on religiously aggravated offences has been on violations of religion supposedly prosecuted as religiously aggravated crime. Alarm bells have been sounded about alleged infringements of rights to freedom of expression in such cases. Yet there has to date been no published systematic analysis to shed light on the question of whether indeed legitimate criticism of religion has been targeted in prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences. Hence, this is the core question that we address in this paper. We present an analysis of a complete year’s sample of prosecutions for religiously aggravated offences in England and Wales from the financial year 2012-13, enabled by unique access we attained to the Crown Prosecution Service Case Management System. We focus on the conduct and discourse of offenders, and in some cases offenders’ discursive acts, distinctively unfolding the foreground and everyday contexts of religiously aggravated offending. This permits an analysis of whether prosecutions have indeed stepped beyond the boundaries of the law by attacking lawful criticism of religion. Informed by our analysis we consider where the boundaries of the criminal law might be drawn between prosecuting against unlawful violations of religious identity and lawful violations of religious beliefs. The research for the paper is a core project in the ERSC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University
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
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