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The Apartheid City and the Politics of Bus Transportation.
No full textJ. J. McCarthy & M. Swilling — L'apartheid urbain et la politique des transports en commun.
Cet article examine l'histoire des systèmes de transport semi-publics sud-africains et le réseau de contradictions qui sont à l'origine de la Commission d'enquête Welgemoed sur les services d'autobus réservés aux Noirs. Les mesures prises par l'Etat à la suite de cette commission sont analysées dans le contexte de la politisation croissante du problème des transports et de la multiplication des boycotts. L'exemple du boycott récent des autobus d'East London illustre l'interdépendance complexe entre accumulation capitaliste, politique d'État et réaction populaire.McCarthy Jeffery J., Swilling Mark. The Apartheid City and the Politics of Bus Transportation.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 25, n°99, 1985. Ségrégation spatiale, ségrégation sociale. pp. 381-400
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
Biodiversity conservation and land rights in South Africa : whither the farm dwellers?
Get PDFThesis (MPhil (Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is unique in that its globally significant biodiversity, which is under major threat,
coexists with an apartheid history of dispossession that produced a starkly unequal land
ownership pattern and widespread rural poverty. It is in this context that the post-apartheid
government must fulfil constitutional and international obligations to safeguard environmental
assets as well as undertake land reform benefiting the previously dispossessed. Consequently,
there is a continuous challenge of reconciling complex and often conflicting relationships
between poverty, inequitable access to resources, and the protection of biodiversity. Current
efforts to conserve the Cape Floral Kingdom emphasise partnerships between private
landowners and existing nature reserves to promote sustainable utilisation of biodiversity. This
paper explores the potential impact of this approach on farm dwellers, and how changing land
use may affect their land tenure rights and livelihoods. Primary research was undertaken in the
Baviaanskloof, where this model is in an early stage of implementation. The paper identifies
systemic and structural tensions in current attempts to reconcile biodiversity conservation and
farm dwellers’ interests, and documents issues of process and principle that could become
important in the future. In doing so, it highlights the influence of on-farm power relations and
highly complex institutional arrangements in determining the real extent of participation by
affected farm dwellers and the efficacy of social safeguard policies. Findings also caution
against an over-reliance on ecotourism as the major occupation and argues instead for support
to multiple livelihood strategies.Master
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
Transformational infrastructure for development of a wellbeing economy in Africa
Get PDFCITATION: Mebratu, D. & Swilling, M. (eds) 2019. Transformational infrastructure for development of a wellbeing economy in Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480419.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/zaAfrican countries face unprecedented challenges of defining a future development pathway in a resource- and carbon-constrained world. This book addresses this challenge, with special reference to the set of infrastructure that most African countries require to meet the sustainable development goals and fulfil the aspirations of Agenda 2063. Infrastructure is a key factor that determines how resource and energy flow and transform through socio-economic systems. Decisions made today by African countries on their infrastructural configuration will determine the inclusivity, resource intensity and climate resilience of their development pathways for decades to come. This book is a product of a two‑year research conducted by a group of African scholars who have an extensive academic and practical experience on the development of key infrastructure sectors in Africa.Introduction -- Executive summary -- Transformative leapfrogging to a wellbeing economy in Africa -- Ecological infrastructure as a basis for the African wellbeing economy -- Sustainable energy systems in Africa -- Inclusive and sustainable industrial development for Africa -- Sustainable urban development in Africa -- Lifecycle management for sustainable infrastructure planning and development in Africa -- Distributed renewable economy for Africa as a basis for wellbeing economy development -- Inclusive governance for sustainable development in Africa -- Indicators on transformational infrastructure for a wellbeing economy.https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/transformational-infrastructure-for-development-of-a-wellbeing-economy-in-africa/802540Publisher's versio
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