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Center in periferija na kulturni poti Sveta Evrope
No full textNotions of social, economic and cultural development often posit a dynamic relation between developed areas and less developed ones, conceived of not as autonomous units but as ‘centres’ or ‘peripheries’ in a larger global context. But there may be blind spots to this conceptual framework, with its assumptions of strong dichotomies of hegemonic, dominant centres and subaltern peripheries. The implicit valorisation of a centre as the prime mover with respect to an essentially passive and receptive periphery may not successfully describe all forms of development, particularly in the area of culture. This brief article looks at this problem in relation to a cultural route recognized by the Council of Europe, ATRIUM (Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Europe’s Urban Memory). It proposes that the ‘dissonance’ of the cultural experience taken forward by the members of the cultural route, rather than being peripheral, cannot be considered marginal to cultural transmission. Likewise, the historical experience of small towns under totalitarian regimes may only appear to be marginal and peripheral but instead can be interpreted as central to the developmental procedures of regimes. Finally, to consider the cultural activities of these apparently peripheral provincial towns is to underrate their significance
Sociabilità e radicalismo politico: il Partisan Coffee House a Soho (1958-1963)
Get PDFFrom 1958 to 1961, Soho (London) witnessed an interesting experiment in radical sociability, the Partisan Coffee House. Founded by a number of socialists and radicals, it aimed to become a place where like-minded radicals could freely congregate and socialise over coffee, chess and food. The Partisan saw the active involvement of intellectuals associated with what was to become the New Left such as Raphael Samuel, Eric Hobsbawm, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and many others. It closed due to financial issues in 1963, but remains an interesting example of a physical site of radical discourse
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Get PDFIn recent years there has been increasing interest in the connection between translation and politics, with a number of publications providing an initial mapping of a territory that is still to a large extent neglected especially from a diachronic perspective. The issue of TTR (34.1) to which this essay is an introduction, has a marked diachronic focus, with papers ranging from the early modern period until the early nineteenth century in Europe. The essays presented share a view of translation as a particular form of political doing and thus a perspective that highlights the performative aspect of translation. As an act which involves the shifting of meaning from one linguistic and cultural environment to another, translation relies on a particular translating subject with an agency which invalidates any supposed neutrality. The choices made in the act of translation involve, in other words, a conscious positioning and commitment on the part of all those involved, and as such inevitably carry with them a political dimension.
The political act of translation, in these contributions, emerges in a number of different ways and through different methodological approaches. The standard comparison of source and target texts enables critics to focus on the ways in which lexical choices and the amplification or cutting of the original contribute to the political orientation and objectives of the translator. Paratextual apparata used to frame texts (prefaces, notes and such like) are also clearly a conduit for the political aims of translators. This presentation provides an overview of some views of translation as a political act as they emerge in the essays in the edited volume
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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