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Modernizzazione e primitivismi. Il caso della rappresentazione della Mulatta Cubana
No full textThe article concerns processes of cultural resistance and colonialism in late modernity, specifically in Cuban contemporary culture. In this context, in which the transculturation process between the old world (Europe) and the local culture are a fundamental part of identity, the occidental primitivist vision is elaborated and readapted in Cuba. This ability to play with the exotic is analyzed by the author focusing on the representations of the Cuban mulatto woman, a central figure in Cuba's culture and a connecting link between black and white cultures. The study of iconographic and literary sources on the Cuban mulatto woman enables reflection on the conquering logic of a triumphant modern Europe, as well as on the various answers and narrations opposed to this same modernity
Mulier ludens. Bellezza e immagini della mulatta cubana
No full textThis study of the aesthetics of the mulatez focuses on reifying sexualising representations, pervasive visual registers and the perspectives of women who call themselves mulata. The narrative reiterated of the appeal of the sensual Cuban mulata, dangerous because she is 'almost white', is explored as an antiphon with contradictory functions: on the one hand, being a warning against attempts to racially contaminate the dominant order of blancura and masculinity; on the other hand, being a metaphor for the possibility of the rupture of this same order and of a liberal ethos, claiming new forms of citizenship within colonial society.
The author concentrates on the habitus of an ostentatious vanity: a tactic of making oneself visible in order to guarantee one's existence in the slave system of forces through the irruption of beauty. Mulier ludens, the mulata must negotiate her own subjectivity with the oppressive weight of a visuality that fixes her as available and passive: woman of sugar, made from the cane cultivated by her black slave ancestors, sweet, to be eaten. What do women describing themselves as mulatas make of this bitter history? How is beauty being 'made' in Havana today? Narratives of menear - the body technique of hips -, of the aesthetic practices of caring for the frizzy hair disparagingly called 'pasa' and of the quality of 'sandunga' reveal beauty as a doing rather than a being; a performative style critical of the tragic and passive representational tradition of the mulata built into the colony's system of forces
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
La dimensione religiosa: problemi di metodo
No full textLa sociologia delle religioni presenta, come poche altre, dei problemi notevoli sul piano della ricerca. La stessa posizione della dimensione religiosa nel contesto della società moderna apre due fronti di problemi sia per il soggetto credente, sia per il ricercatore che si definisce a partire dalla sua stessa esteriorità rispetto al proprio oggetto. Al soggetto credente, proprio a partire dal momento in cui la dimensione religiosa è privata e interiore, l’osservazione del sociologo come quella dell’etnologo appaiono inevitabilmente intrusive e implicitamente provocatorie. Al ricercatore invece, ogni singola manifestazione dell’agire religioso – sia sul piano delle pratiche, sia su quello delle credenze che le attivano – appare rilevante solo per le conseguenze che provoca più che per le verità che dichiara di veicolare. Riuscire a fare ricerca in un tale contesto diventa problematico, ma ciò spiega anche l’interesse di questo working papers nel quale diversi giovani ricercatori, ciascuno con un proprio specifico percorso di ricerca, hanno affrontato e risolto i problemi metodologici connessi agli specifici oggetti di indagine che, di volta in volta, sono emersi nel corso del loro lavoro. Obiettivo del presente testo è pertanto quello di alimentare la riflessione sui problemi connessi all’analisi dei fenomeni religiosi e riguarda sia quanti operano in questo settore, sia quanti sono comunque interessati ai problemi metodologici che questa disciplina deve affrontare
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
«Politiche vaccinali cubane e scommesse sulla sovranità. Risposte al virus, politicizzazione della salute globale e mutamenti accelerati»
No full textThe article explores the changes introduced in Cuba by the impact of the pandemic and by vaccination and virus control policies. It considers the habitus of preparedness and response to risk from the beginning of the Revolution to the present day, and the public and cost-free health system in its intimate relationship with the population. Observing these specificities allows us to delve into the production of the five national vaccines and the bet behind the approval of the Soberana vaccine. The article analyses cultural and national constructions, meanings and urgencies of Cuban health policy. Inscribed in the precariousness exacerbated by the pandemic, it faces accelerated changes and an increasing politicisation of global health
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