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“Bugabug ang dagat” (Rough seas): Experiencing Foucault’s heterotopia in fish trading houses
Full text linkPlaces in the contemporary world are subjected to the workings of differentiating logics, foremost of which is globalization and to the other end, the counter-logic of localization, which results in, amongst others, the instantiation of differing spaces. These spaces, oftentimes co-existing and overlapping, are a result of contrapuntal forces, enacting their own colonization of places by people of varying interests. This article explores the other uses of kumisyunan (fish trading houses) by magririgaton (fish vendors) from a small fishing community in Quezon province that “simultaneously represent, contest, and invert” the very purpose and nature of the places’ rationale: fish trading. Heterotopia will be deployed in this article to further the ends of how a particular place could be inhabited by a number of spaces or exhibit alternate spatial possibilities and display a plethora of spatial practices within one singular location at different times in a particular spatial and temporal context. The article hopes to contribute to the further understanding of how everyday life and place is lived and reproduced in the variegated geographies of globalization in a developing economy like the Philippines. Keywords: auction, fishing community, fish trading, heterotopias, place, spac
Kumbatihan ng Lunan: Talabtaban ng Pag-iral sa Calvario ng Mauban
Full text linkIba’t iba ang gamit ng pook - pang-ekonomiya, lipunan, pulitika o ideolohiya, na maaari rin namang kumbinasyon ng dalawa o lahat na. Ang mga gamit ng pook, dapat namang mabatid, ay hindi nangyayari sa kawalan. Bahagi sila ng mahabang prosesong historikal. Ang kanilang gamit ay manipestasyon ng diskursibong pakikipagtalabtaban ng tao sa nag-iiba-ibang agos ng kasaysayan at mga materyal na pwersang panlipunan. Kasalikop din sila ng pagmamarka ng tao ng kanilang kairalang ‘panghabang panahon’ sa mundo ng di masupil na pag-inog at pagkilos, ng nakagugulantang na mga kapanandalian. Kaya naman,ang mga kapookan ay pagsuysoy din sa mga lunan na magkakasalikop at umiibabaw sa bawat isa - heterotopia. Sa madaling salita, proyekto ng artikulong ito na basahin ang Calvario, isang popular na pook-pasyalan sa Mauban, Quezon, sa katulad na pagpapalagay sa kairalan ng pook at lunan upang itampok ang kaniyang kakanyahang pangheterotopia at ugnayan sa mga prosesong historikal. Ang artikulong ito ay tungkol din sa kasasayan ng Mauban, na pinalutang mula sa pag-iral ng iba-ibang lunan sa iisang pook. Papaksain ng artikulong ito, kung magkagayon, ang pagsasalunan ng lokal na kasaysayan, pagsasapook ng samu’t saring naratibo sa iisang istrukturang pampubliko at kung magkagayon ay pakikibahagi sa pagigiit ng kritikal na perspektibong panlipunan sa kontemporaneong panlipunang teorya at pagsusuri. Mga susing salita: alamat, heterotopia, kasaysayang lokal, lunan, modernidad, pasyalang pangturismo, pook Places are used for various reasons whether they be economic, social, political or ideological or a combination of two or all of them. Such uses of place, however, do not happen in a vacuum. They are a part of long historical processes. Their uses are a manifestation of the people’s discursive engagement with differing currents of history and material forces and their ways of stamping their ‘permanence’ in an otherwise world of unmitigated flux, of unsettling impermanences. Thus, places are also about spaces that overlap each other or present some alternate ordering called heterotopias. This paper reads Calvario, a popular town landmark in Mauban, Quezon, along that vein to highlight its heterotopic qualities and engagement with historical processes. In a number of ways, this article is about the town’s history, evoked through the presences of multifarious spaces in one place made by the town’s inhabitants through the years. This article therefore is all about spatializing local history, emplacing varied narratives into one material structure, and thus, contributing to the reassertion of critical social perspective in contemporary social theory and analysis.   Keywords: heterotopia, legend, local history, modernity, place, space, tourist spo
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
Knowledge Sits in Places: The Vernacularity and Emplacement of Fish Markets in Southern Philippines
Full text linkMarkets sit in places and knowledge produced in these places also constitute the very foundation of markets’ viability and market actors’ performative competitive edge. However, not all markets are created equal primarily in the context of their importance in the global economy. Thus conceived, we imagine a world economy or markets populated by people in front of wide computer screens making sense of financial algorithms and derivatives. In a way, here, we see a market that is run by codified knowledge, or scientific knowledge that transcends boundaries. But what about a conception of market that recognizes the production of knowledge in the periphery, and this instance, fish markets, where place-based knowledge marks the contours of engagement of fishmongers to their wider world and yet, concomitantly, also underscores their attachment to place? In this article, in an ethnographic study of four fish markets in a small coastal town in southern Philippine, fishmongers engage with market processes via their production and deployment of vernacular knowledge which is performed in the form of public specialized knowledge, tacit knowledge and network knowledge. In these forms of vernacular knowledge, we become cognizant of the complexities of market processes even in places that are relegated to the margins, where knowledge plays a crucial role in sensing the world and making it lived and real
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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
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