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Relaciones entre derecho estatal y mundos indígenas: Hacia la descolonización en el poder judicial guatemalteco
Get PDFLa colonialidad explica un elemento en la red mundial de relaciones de poder que posee orígenes en la dominación colonial. En Guatemala, las prácticas coloniales pretendieron anular o reducir las filosofías, instituciones y formas de ser propias de los pueblos originarios; a pesar de ello, estas se han preservado a lo largo de los tiempos, gracias a la resistencia de los pueblos indígenas. Lo colonial sigue manifestándose actualmente en la sociedad guatemalteca y permite explicar la situación diferenciada que experimentan los grupos indígenas y no indígenas en el país. En ese contexto, el derecho oficial interactúa con las filosofías, instituciones y prácticas indígenas; los puntos de encuentro entre ambos mundos ponen en relieve las influencias mutuas, aunque también evidencian las asimetrías en las relaciones de poder. La recopilación de experiencias de actores relevantes y el estudio de casos judiciales procurarán determinar de qué formas la colonialidad del poder se expresa en la aplicación del derecho oficial, en el marco de las disputas judiciales que guardan relación con personas y pueblos indígenas; además, reflexionar sobre el papel que actualmente desempeña la justicia oficial en la continuidad de las hegemonías existentes.Máster Oficial en Estudios Avanzados en Derechos HumanosPresidenta: María José Fariñas.- Secretario: Ángel Llama
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
Review of The Challenge of Legal Pluralism. Local dispute settlement and the Indian-state relationship in Ecuador, by Marc Simon Thomas
Get PDFThe Challenge of Legal Pluralism. Local dispute settlement and the Indian-state relationship in Ecuador, by Marc Simon Thomas. Routledge, 201
Dealing with the legacy of gross human rights violations in Guatemala: grasping the mismatch between macro level policies and micro level processes
Get PDFThis article addresses the important nexus between macro level responses and micro level processes when dealing with the aftermath of gross human rights violations. It focuses on the case of Guatemala and the issue of financial compensation for people affected by the internal armed conflict. One of the key mechanisms of the horror of the counterinsurgency war was the forced mass involvement of the civilian population through the imposition of the Civil Defence Patrols in rural indigenous communities. This raises the thorny question of who is victim in a micro reality of blurred lines between victims and perpetrators. Several socio-political parameters ensured that two distinct compensation programmes were created: one aimed at compensating the ex-civil patrollers; and a National Reparations Programme for the victims. Ethnographic accounts from Maya Q’eqchi’ victims and ex-civil patrollers reveal that these two state initiatives expose frustration and incomprehensiveness among the beneficiaries towards both programmes and reveal a mismatch between macro initiatives and micro reality, which undermines the fragile process of rebuilding community trust
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
Indigenous Water Ontologies, Hydro-Development and the Human/More-Than-Human Right to Water: A Call for Critical Engagement with Plurilegal Water Realities
Get PDFWater conflicts across the world are bringing to the fore fundamental challenges to the anthropocentric boundaries of the human rights paradigm. Engaging with the multi-layered legal ethnographic setting of the Xalalá dam project in Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, I will critically and empirically unpack not only the anthropocentric boundaries of the hegemonic human rights paradigm, but also the ontological differences between indigenous and Euro-Western legal conceptualizations of human-water-life. I argue that it is necessary to pave the way for urgent rethinking of the human right to water and, more broadly, human rights beyond the modern divide of nature-culture. International law and human rights scholars should therefore not be afraid of plurilegal water realities and should start engaging with these ontologically different concepts and practices. Embarking on a bottom-up co-theorizing about human and beyond-the-human water rights will be imperative to avoid recolonization of indigenous knowledges-ontologies by non-indigenous scholarships and public policy
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