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Constitutional patriotism as a form of citizenship for the European union: recognizing minorities
Full text linkContemporary political theory is focused on the question of common life of groups and
individuals with divergent axiological worldviews. The need for common life, social cohesion
and solidarity is sometimes in contradiction to the space of freedom that these groups and
individuals require by their very nature. Recognition stands in the nexus of this contradiction: we
need rules that will accept us as equal citizens of a polity but at the same time allow for the
expression of our difference. Political liberalism informs us with idea that constitutional rules
have to be legitimate for those to whom these are directed. What do these two streams of
normative reasoning tell us about existing and desirable constitutional orders of polities,
specifically postnational like the European Union, and what form of citizenship would account
for minorities?
I argue that liberal multiculturalism is to some extent just another reinterpretation of the
national state which legitimizes the intrusion of the concepts of the good in the sphere not only in
politics but in the constitutional outset of modern national states. National majority has always
come with various other forms of exclusion: patriarchal, white, heteronormative etc. Thus, with
the main discourse of national states that stays at the pedestal of modern European intellectual
history we have different kinds and types of minorities, phenomenologically distinctive, but all
united by the constitutional and political exclusion they experience within a setting of a national
state. Degrees and forms change both historically and geographically but the matrix of exclusion
in its essence remains the same: citizenship is used a strategy for social closure that gives
majority more of something, be it resources or status. If this is the nucleus of the normative
problem that lies in the heart of constitutionalism, democracy and citizenship what is the
theoretical solution of this conundrum?
In this thesis argue that constitutional patriotism is an optimal form of citizenship for an
emerging European polity. This notion is thoroughly analyzed and developed through a new
theoretical paradigm. The main idea is that European belonging is based on the allegiance to a
certain set of constitutional rights that stem from quasi-constitutional acts and practices of the
EU and allow for better recognition of those who I named identity minorities. To be legally equal
and recognized, in my understanding, means is to have the same point of reference, the basic set
of rules that govern us and give equal standing for our different conceptions of good life. In other
words, my thesis, in its philosophical core, is a story about the good and right and their mutual
interdependence. Though liberals are often criticized for their insistence on rights, forgetting
that rights themselves can be a form of particular good, I try to show that it is still the only
normatively acceptable form of establishing an order in which minimal common rights will
enable us to have the liberty to establish and achieve our conceptions of the good life. In other
words, primacy of rights over good is the only logical solution for the axiological clash that
might emerge between these two analytical categories. This conclusion stems from both lines of
reasoning applied in my dissertation: theories of recognition and political liberalism.
In final chapters I show that EU citizenship is being created in a deterritorialized and
postnational polity. These two features give a distinct identity to the EU polity making it more
open and inclusive for minorities and I explicate this through three normative arguments why
constitutional patriotism is normatively the most acceptable form of EU citizenship
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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