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In the National Interest
No full textNeoliberalism has not always ruled the world. In Latin America the wholesale privatization of state companies, from water supplies to electricity grids, from manufacturing to telecommunications, is of recent origin. Thirty years ago Latin American governments were nationalizing, not privatizing, key economic sectors
Dore, Elizabeth. How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution
No full textReview of: Dore, Elizabeth. How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023
Patriarchy from above, patriarchy from below, debt peonage on Nicaraguan coffee estates, 1870-1930
No full textUna historia no modernizadora en la Nicaragua rural: Granada, 1860-1920
No full textThe orthodoxy in modern Latin American history is that fundamental social and economic transformations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were all part of the region’s capitalist transition. Drawing on a case study from a municipality in the Department of Granada, one of Nicaragua’s prime coffee-growing zones, the article argues that coffee production unleashed major socioeconomic changes, but these did not hasten the country’s transition to capitalism, defined as a society in which major social interactions are regulated by buying and selling. Based on an analysis of labour contracts and transcripts of court cases between planters and peons, the article examines the nature of labour relations on coffee estates. It concludes that the women, men and children who worked in the region’s coffee sector were debt peons. They were forced by national laws, underpinned by planters’ local power, to pick coffee during the harvest season. Coffee pickers in the Granada region were forced labourers embedded in a non-capitalist society, not free wage labourers within a capitalist economy
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
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