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Conversation with... Wendy Larner
No full textProfessor Wendy Larner is an internationally acclaimed social scientist whose research sits in the interdisciplinary fields of globalisation, governance and gender. She graduated from Carleton University in 1997 with a PhD in Political Economy and has since worked at the University of Auckland (1997-2005) and the University of Bristol, where she became Research Director, then Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (2005-2015). In December 2015, Professor Larner assumed her current role as Provost of the Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Larner visited the University of Warwick in June 2017 at the Institute for Advanced Studies’ invitation.
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Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
No full textVaughan Higgins and Wendy Larner. Assembling Neoliberalism Expertise,
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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
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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Critical Dialogues: Thinking Together in Turbulent Times
Full text linkThis book argues that thinking dialogically is a vital foundation for critical intellectual work. The book offers recorded conversations with people who have helped me to think: Wendy Brown, Allan Cochrane, Davina Cooper, Larry Grossberg, Wendy Larner, Gail Lewis, Tania Li, Jeff Maskovsky, Janet Newman, Anu Sharma, Paul Stubbs, Fiona Williams
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