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Contropolitiche
No full textCosa è successo al conflitto? Su questo tema c’è ampio dibattito. C’è chi sostiene che il conflitto si è esaurito, per altri è più vivo che mai, per altri ancora le grandi fiammate conflittuali dell’ultimo ventennio hanno fatto spettacolo, senza tuttavia modificare le relazioni di potere. In questo numero abbiamo provato a guardare al conflitto da un’altra prospettiva. Non c’è potere che non incontri qualche attrito, che non susciti qualche resistenza, che non paghi qualche costo. Quali reazioni suscita la diffusione ormai planetaria del neoliberalismo? A quali tecniche di autodifesa ricorre la società?
Il cantiere del cambiamento è sempre aperto. Per i dominanti, per i dominati e per gli studiosi che lo osservano. Sono cresciute le forme individuali di protesta e di autodifesa. Ma se ne sono sviluppate anche altre a carattere collettivo. Sono apparse in primo piano forme di azione che val la pena guardare in maniera più ravvicinata. Stanchi di bussare, i dominati, che sono un universo oltremodo composito, si accampano ove possono. Si difendono dal potere e lottano per il potere da luoghi convenzionalmente situati in basso o all’esterno. Istituiscono enclaves, talora provvisorie, altre volte durevoli. A volte progressive, ma a volte pure regressive. Se spesso insorgono nuove forme di socialità, in altri casi si consumano quelle già esistenti. In ogni caso, le forme di azione politica e di resistenza al potere, tanto dello Stato, quanto del mercato, sono meritevoli di osservazione, documentazione e, se possibile, interpretazione.
Questo numero non propone racconti edificanti. Non c’è una società buona in lotta contro la politica cattiva. O viceversa. Società e politica sono plurali e, in un mondo diventato diffusamente instabile, reagiscono e interagiscono in molti modi.
Parlando di «contro-politiche» abbiamo inteso sottolineare un aspetto specifico delle vicende raccontate in questo numero: non si tratta solo di forme di opposizione alle azioni di governo condotte dalle autorità politiche ufficiali, di manifestazioni di protesta, di tentativi di contrastare o di deviare quelle azioni. Non è solo contro-politica. Sono anche forme di controgoverno, veri e propri tentativi, non necessariamente consapevoli, dei governati di elaborare autonomamente contromisure di governo, di farsi governo essi stessi. Storicamente non è una novità. La storia del movimento operaio, ad esempio, è stata per lungo tempo una storia di contro-policies (oltre che di contro-politics e perfino di contro-polity). Da quando questa storia si è esaurita, avevamo perso di vista questa possibilità. Che è alfine ricomparsa
Mafie e gioco d’azzardo. Filiera imprenditoriale e dinamiche criminali
Get PDFThe article investigates the role of mafias in the gambling sector in Italy. The gambling sector is a field of business that has recently undergone radical and decisive changes, affected above all by a process of accelerated legalisation that has made it one of the most dynamic legal gambling markets in the world in terms of volume of money gambled. Although gambling has become legal, the demand for illegal gambling services has not definitely disappeared. In the article we first reconstruct the business chain of the gambling industry, identifying both the most relevant aspects of its recent development and the various actors working in this business sector. Based on some judicial documents, we then offer a picture of the role of the mafias in the gambling sector, focusing on the aspects that most attract mafia interests or make it vulnerable to predatory action by mafias. Finally, we present a particularly significant case study of the action of an entrepreneur close to the mafias in the field of gambling activities relying on the consultation of court documents and interviews with qualified witnesses. The emerging picture highlights how the criminal rise is being combined with the process of “regulated opening” of the gambling market, which is being transformed relatively quickly from a black market to a fully legal one
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
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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