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Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming Berne and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. (pp. 345).
No full textUtopia Method Vision makes a unique contribution to international debates in cultural, literary, sociological, and political studies of utopian theory, texts, and practices. The collection addresses the ways in which the international group of contributors approaches their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work in general and their research perspectives in particular. In so doing, each contributor develops a larger, self-critical look at the limits and potential of the entire paradigm by which utopianism is known, studied, critiqued, created, and received.
Utopian projects seek, to use Seamus Heaney’s words, the rhyming of hope and history; but in existing societies, where hopes are abridged, baffled, or denied, the words merely alliterate. The orientation of hope is towards future plenitude, a prophetic imagining of alternative selves and societies. The contributors to this volume also see that time future is contained in time past and that coming events cast their shadows before them. One of the volume’s strengths is its focus on utopia as a process, as a means of both understanding the world and changing it. This work is splendidly interdisciplinary, international in its contributors and focus, theoretically accomplished, and analytically discerning. The essays are characterised by a productive transgression of discourses, genres, styles, and registers, as their authors reflect not only on utopia as method but also on the genesis of their own intellectual practice. In sum, they give us illuminating and moving expressions of the personal, intellectual, and political in a utopian key.
– Professor Tadhg Foley, Department of English & Chair of the Board, Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
To read Utopia Method Vision is to plunge into an exhilarating conversation. Writing from multiple disciplines and methodologies, the contributors share a common passion for a better world: a re-imagined political and social future. The essays are accessible and rich. They address a range of utopian objects, from Renaissance and enlightenment utopias to experimental poetry, from intentional communities to anti-globalization activism. The depth of theoretical sophistication will offer a new generation of scholars a foundation and inspiration for future work. Along with cutting-edge theory, the contributors offer stirring intellectual autobiography, tracing their evolution as utopian thinkers, activists, and participants in the field of utopian studies. The study and search for utopia is revealed as both personally and politically transformative.
– Dr. Carrie Hintz, English Department, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and President The Society for Utopian Studie
Ralahine Utopian Studies
No full textRalahine Utopian Studies is the publishing project of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, and the Department of Intercultural Studies in Translation, Languages and Culture, University of Bologna at Forlì.
The series editors aim to publish scholarship that addresses the theory and practice of utopianism (including Anglophone, continental European, and indigenous and postcolonial traditions, and contemporary and historical periods). Publications (in English and other European languages) will include original monographs and essay collections (including theoretical, textual, and ethnographic/ institutional research), English language translations of utopian scholarship in other national languages, reprints of classic scholarly works that are out of print, and annotated editions of original utopian literary and other texts (including translations).
While the editors seek work that engages with the current scholarship and debates in the field of utopian studies, they will not privilege any particular critical or theoretical orientation. They welcome submissions by established or emerging scholars working within or outside the academy. Given the multi-lingual and inter-disciplinary remit of the University of Limerick and the University of Bologna at Forlì, they especially welcome comparative studies in any disciplinary or trans-disciplinary framework.
Those interested in contributing to the series are invited to submit a detailed project outline to Professor Raffaella Baccolini at Department of Intercultural Studies in Translation, Languages and Culture, University of Bologna at Forlì, Forlì, Italy or to Professor Tom Moylan or Dr. Joachim Fischer at the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
E-mail queries can be sent to [email protected].
Series editors:
Raffaella Baccolini (University of Bologna, at Forlì)
Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick)
Tom Moylan (University of Limerick)
Managing editor:
Michael J. Griffin (UL)
Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick.
See: http://www.ul.ie/ralahinecentre
Ralahine Utopian Studies
No full textRalahine Utopian Studies is the publishing project of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, and the Department of Intercultural Studies in Translation, Languages and Culture, University of Bologna at Forlì.
The series editors aim to publish scholarship that addresses the theory and practice of utopianism (including Anglophone, continental European, and indigenous and postcolonial traditions, and contemporary and historical periods). Publications (in English and other European languages) will include original monographs and essay collections (including theoretical, textual, and ethnographic/ institutional research), English language translations of utopian scholarship in other national languages, reprints of classic scholarly works that are out of print, and annotated editions of original utopian literary and other texts (including translations).
While the editors seek work that engages with the current scholarship and debates in the field of utopian studies, they will not privilege any particular critical or theoretical orientation. They welcome submissions by established or emerging scholars working within or outside the academy. Given the multi-lingual and inter-disciplinary remit of the University of Limerick and the University of Bologna at Forlì, they especially welcome comparative studies in any disciplinary or trans-disciplinary framework.
Those interested in contributing to the series are invited to submit a detailed project outline to Professor Raffaella Baccolini at Department of Intercultural Studies in Translation, Languages and Culture, University of Bologna at Forlì, Forlì, Italy or to Professor Tom Moylan or Dr. Joachim Fischer at the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
E-mail queries can be sent to [email protected].
Series editors:
Raffaella Baccolini (University of Bologna, at Forlì)
Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick)
Tom Moylan (University of Limerick)
Managing editor:
Michael J. Griffin (UL)
Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick.
See: http://www.ul.ie/ralahinecentre
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
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