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Land grabbing, power configurations and trajectories of China’s investments in Argentina
No full textThis paper analyses the display of the power relations involved in the trajectory of China´s land grabbing in Argentina. Through a study of the failed agri-food project of Beidahuang Group in Rio Negro, it shows the centrality of the dynamic configurations of material, discursive and institutional power surrounding Chinese investments to both facilitate land grabbing and condition its outcomes. Drawing on a neo-Gramscian approach, three configurations of power are identified in interaction with a logic of agricultural accumulation with hegemonic aspirations: the alignment of power relations; the challenges and the misalignment of these forces. Consequently, the project suspension results from a change in power relations caused by reactions from "below" and "above", although this does not affect the global primacy of agribusiness.Fil: Mora, Sol Yamila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Política y Gobierno; Argentin
Land Grabbing and International Political Economy: Towards a Critical Neo-Gramscian Theoretical Model of Land Governance in Latin America
Get PDFThe vigorous debate on global land grabbing within Critical Agrarian Studies contrasts with the incipient analyses from International Political Economy (IPE). This divergence has overshadowed the multi-scalar nature of the power relations that shape land governance, and consequently its effects on land grabbing. For this reason, this paper provides a critical theoretical model of land governance based on Robert Cox?s historical structures approach to understand the causes of land grabbing in Latin American countries. It is argued that this model renders visible the articulation of the local and global processes driving land grabbing because it foregrounds the power relations at multiple scales that shape decisions on land access, use and control, as well as the conflicts inherent to them. This demonstrates that, on the one hand, land governance structures in Latin America play a hegemonic role since they express and develop the global agricultural model that promotes land grabbing. On the other hand, social resistance highlights that land governance simultaneously possesses a potential for change. As a result, the knowledge about land grabbing is enhanced through dialogue between the two fields of study.Fil: Mora, Sol Yamila. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Política y Gobierno; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas. - Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas; Argentin
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
China’s Going Out agricultural policy: An analysis of its development in Argentina
Get PDFLa extraordinaria demanda de materias primas de la República Popular China provocó un inusitado incremento de las importaciones de commodities. No obstante, con posterioridad a la crisis alimentaria mundial de 2008, China privilegió la Inversión Extranjera Directa(IED) como mecanismo para garantizar su abastecimiento alimentario doméstico. Como resultado, la agricultura adquirió un lugar prioritario dentro de la estrategia de Going Out. A pesar del abrupto desembarco de IED chinas en sectores primario-extractivos en Argentina, la literatura académica dirigió limitada atención al avance de los capitales de China en la agricultura. Este artículo analiza la forma en que China ha desplegado su estrategia de IED agrícola en Argentina en el período 2010-2016. Para ello, emplea una metodología cualitativa a partir de un relevamiento de las iniciativas de China en Argentina sobre la base de la prensa, publicaciones académicas y fuentes gubernamentales. Ello permite distinguir tres modalidades dentro la estrategia, en las que las inversiones se dirigieron a la tierra, a los servicios agrícolas y a la cadena de valor agrícola.The extraordinary demand for raw materials from the People's Republic of China led to an unusual increase in commodity imports. However, after the 2008 world food crisis, China favored Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a mechanism for guaranteeing its domestic food supply. As a result, agriculture became a priority within the Going Out strategy. Despite the abrupt disembarkation of Chinese FDI into primary-extractive sectors in Argentina, the academic literature focused limited attention on the advance of Chinese capital in agriculture. This article analyzes the way in which China deployed its agricultural FDI strategy in Argentina between 2010 and 2016. A qualitative methodology is used based on a survey of Chinese initiatives in Argentina based on news coverage, academic publications and government sources. This has led to the identification of three modalities within the strategy in which investments were directed to land, to agricultural services and to the agricultural value chain.Fil: Mora, Sol Yamila. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Política y Gobierno; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
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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