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Feminist Movements and the Gender Economic Agenda in Latin America
Full text linkIn Latin America, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing represents a milestone in the history of the feminist and women's movements. Twenty years have passed and despite important achievements in gender equality, for issues of economic equality the results are still meagre and there remains a long road ahead in the fields of employment, access to resources, and social protection for women. Unsurprisingly, it is in economic matters that the feminist and women's movements have renewed their themes and strategies. This article identifies a gender economic agenda that is broad in its transformative scope and in its determination to challenge core aspects of the current economic and social organisation. This broad perspective is a direct legacy of the Beijing Platform for Action but expands a step beyond as it incorporates new challenges for bringing gender justice by questioning the current ways of production and consumption.Fil: Rodríguez Gustá, Ana Laura. University of Notre Dame; Estados Unidos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Madera, Nancy Verónica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentin
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
Beyond the legislative chamber - collective strategies for a gender agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean
Full text linkBajo la concepción 'densa' de la representación sustantiva de mujeres y un enfoque relacional de las organizaciones, este artículo examina cómo las legisladoras articulan estrategias colectivas para debatir asuntos de género. Se analizan dos estrategias de acción colectiva: la creación de institucionalidad legislativa de género nacional y la conformación de redes supranacionales, mediante el uso una base de datos original sobre la institucionalidad legislativa de 18 países de la región y los contenidos de debates de encuentros parlamentarios regionales entre 2007 y 2013. Una perspectiva sociológica de la representación sustantiva, aplicada a América Latina y el Caribe, muestra que las legisladoras realizan un profuso trabajo de vinculación con diversos actores nacionales y globales y, al construir lazos con el Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, introducen un lenguaje de derechos humanos de mujeres en la agenda. Además, se identificó un conjunto elevado de encuentros regionales en materia de género, propiciados por legisladoras, que sugieren una red temática cuyos resultados tienen un valor simbólico y, en ocasiones, normativo. Por ende, la agenda legislativa de género no debe analizarse únicamente a partir de dinámicas endógenas del Parlamento.Under the 'thick' conception of women's substantive representation and a relational approach towards organizations, this article examines how (mostly) female legislators articulate collective strategies to debate gender issues. With an original dataset about the national legislative institutions in 18 countries of the region and the content of debates within regional parliaments between 2007 and 2013, this article analyzed two collective strategies of action: the creation of national legislative gender institutions and the emergence of supranational networks. Applied to Latin America and the Caribbean, a sociological perspective on women's substantive representation shows that female legislators conduct dense networking with diverse national and global actors and, when constructing ties with the United Nations System, they introduce the language of women's human rights in the agenda. Also, this research identified a high number of regional meetings on gender issues, promoted by female legislators, which suggests a policy network with results that have symbolic value but, in some instances, put normative pressures on the States. Therefore, the legislative gender agenda should not be examined, solely, considering endogenous parliamentary dynamics.Fil: Rodríguez Gustá, Ana Laura. Universidad Nacional de San Martin. Escuela de Politica y Gobierno. Area de Politicas Publicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Madera, Nancy Verónica. Universidad Nacional de San Martin. Escuela de Politica y Gobierno. Area de Politicas Publicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Collective, relational and supranational dimensions in the construction of a legislative agenda on women’s human rights in Latin America
Full text linkEl objetivo del artículo es comprender cómo las dimensiones colectivas y relacionales de la institucionalidad legislativa de género nacional influyen en la tendencia regional de enmarcar la legislación relacionada con “asuntos de mujeres” en un lenguaje de derechos humanos. Utilizando el enfoque de “concepción densa” de la representación sustantiva, este artículo examina cómo los actores legislativos interesados en los derechos humanos de mujeres desarrollan y se insertan en entramados nacionales y regionales que involucran a actores sociales, estatales y entidades globales (particularmente las agencias del Sistema de Naciones Unidas) en el intercambio de ideas y articulación de iniciativas de agenda. De todas maneras, la agenda legislativa de género resultó concentrada en ciertos tópicos pero omite otros.This article seeks to understand how the collective and relational dimensions of gender legislative machinery influence the regional tendency to frame “women’s issues” within the language of human rights. Using the “thick conception” approach towards women’s substantive representation, this article examines how legislative actors interested in women’s human rights develop and get involved in national and regional networks that incorporate social and state actors as well as global entities (such as the United Nations System) in the exchange of ideas and articulation of legislative initiatives. Our findings show that, in terms of content, the legislative gender agenda is centered on certain topics while omitting others.Fil: Rodríguez Gustá, Ana Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Política y Gobierno; ArgentinaFil: Madera, Nancy Verónica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Política y Gobierno; Argentin
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
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