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History, Enterprise, and Reform: Honduran Zede Regimes and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
No full textFor decades, the situation of Indigenous peoples in Honduras has been closely monitored by the international community. With the passage of legislation in 2013 by the Honduran Government authorizing the creation of Zones of Economic Development and Employment (ZEDE), the renewed interest in Indigenous peoples’ rights in this relatively remote corner of the globe is not without merit. According to current United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the situation of Indigenous peoples in Honduras is at a critical juncture – one beset by threats to “their rights over their lands, territories and natural resources,” which are “not protected,” and can even provoke acts of violence when Indigenous peoples lay claim to their rights. Given that Indigenous peoples comprise only seven percent of the total population of Honduras, and that roughly 80 percent of Indigenous peoples still live on their traditional lands, the observations of former Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, S. James Anaya, seem prescient. The situation of Honduras’s Indigenous peoples is complex precisely because of their ancestral relationship with their lands. When this ancient relationship to the land is coupled with the efforts of Indigenous peoples to maintain an identity as a people in the face of the most “powerful sectors of society,” it is not difficult to see why legislation aimed at economic development in Indigenous lands such as the ZEDE organic law would be so controversial. Nevertheless, according to 2016 figures gathered by the World Bank, Honduras is a very poor country facing “major challenges with more than 60.9 percent of the population living in poverty.” In addition, the country faces rampant economic inequality, soaring rates of crime and violence, and an economy that is particularly vulnerable to the whims of export prices which tend to have a disproportionate, adverse impact on the country’s poor. Far from the corridors of power in Tegucigalpa, rural Hondurans tend to rely upon agriculture to make ends meet, and it is exactly this reliance that places them in such a precarious economic situation. While many other scholars and economists (not mutually exclusive terms) have addressed the former question, Given these observations, it stands to reason that economic development would be a key priority for the Honduran Government. Indeed, it would be quite difficult to imagine any functional government in the world that would ignore such fiscal dire straits. The resulting question, then, is not whether economic development needs to occur in Honduras. The situation in Honduras, instead, leaves us with two questions: whether laws creating special economic zones (SEZ) like the ZEDE can actually address these economic issues, and whether they can be made to work for the country’s Indigenous peoples in such a way that their culture, identity, land rights, and natural resources are protected. this paper will seek to address the latter, exploring what some of the best practices related to Indigenous governance might look like within the context of a ZEDE regime: 1) Section I will provide a brief hhistorical overview of Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Honduras; 2) Section II will explore some of the key provisions of the ZEDE regime, and discuss international comparative approaches that have been implemented in other jurisdictions, including other Indigenous jurisdictions; 3) Section III will seek to outline key criticisms of the ZEDE legislation; 4) Section IV will evaluate contemporary best practices for strengthening Indigenous governance, and explore ways that a ZEDE regime can maintain consistency with international law and international norms with respect to Indigenous peoples.This material published in Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy is made available by the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, and the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact the AJELP Editorial Board at https://ajelp.com/contact-us
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A Libertarian Framework for Indian Rights
No full textThis dissertation outlines a new vision for Indian rights, drawing from the fields of libertarian political philosophy and critical race legal theory. The goal is to develop a framework for federal Indian policy that provides for a true realization of tribal self-determination, that maximizes the liberty interests of American Indians, and that promotes lasting economic development in Indian Country.Digitized from a Special Collections copy at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona.This item is part of the IPLP Dissertations collection. For more information about the collection or the program, please contact Justin Boro, UA College of Law, [email protected]
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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