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Social innovation as an alternative narrative
No full textIn a world threatened by several crises, including collapse of ecosystems, hegemony of market thinking over the economy, rolling back of the state, diminution of democracy to moments of election and consensus, concentration of wealth,
predominance of global corporative conglomerates, rapidly changing identities and loss of socio-cultural diversity, there is an urgent need of an alternative and persuasive
narrative. Although threatened (and often plagued) by various economic-centred instrumentalizations, the theory of social innovation provides such an alternative. This theory combines a critical, profound and holist understanding of societal dynamics with a focus on socially innovative practices, responding to unaddressed needs, empowering
the deprived, and changing the social relations. Social innovation encompasses collective action that succeeds in changing the world for the better, by mutually embedding social, economic and ecological systems, recreating solidarity-based community relations, stimulating a fair distribution of resources, establishing regenerative economies, and supporting socio-cultural, discursive and cognitive diversity
Transformations and eco-territorial governance innovations: The case of the Chaparri Nature Reserve, Peru
No full textOver the past two decades, the expansion of Peru’s agro-export sector has driven agricultural frontiers into the
Lambayeque region, leading to the criminalization of local peasant communities that advocate for nature con-
servation. In this paper, we examine the Chaparri Nature Reserve, the first private protected area created by a
peasant community in Peru. We develop the concept of “eco-territorial governance innovations” to analyze how
Chaparri’s collective action restores dry forest ecosystems and provides new socio-economic and socio-ecological
development venues for peasant communities facing criminalization. Our findings show that eco-territorial
governance innovations play a crucial role in reconstructing nature-culture relations and addressing socio-
political gaps related to nature conservation and other socio-environmental causes. Through their governance
innovations, the historically oppressed Chaparri community is developing alternatives to counteract adverse
conditions, recover from marginalization, reaffirm their identities, and strengthen both local and trans-local ties.sponsorship: VLIR-UOS|PE2019TEA489A101status: Published onlin
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
Building Eco-Territorial Movements in Private-Community Conservation Areas: The Case of the Chaparri Nature Reserve in Lambayeque
No full textNature conservation is an urgent issue globally, particularly regarding its integration with sustainable socio-economic development. In Latin America, countries like Peru face increasing tensions between nature conservation and neoextractivist models. The eco-territorial turn of socio-environmental movements in the region reflects a critique of this economic model and seeks collective governance of the territory. In this context, Private Conservation Areas (PCAs) have proliferated in recent decades, with the Chaparri Nature Reserve pioneering as the first private-community PCA led by a peasant community. The case of Chaparri illustrates the struggle between local conservationists and proponents of extractivist development. This article explores the eco-territorial movement generated in Chaparri from the activist research that brought together efforts with Belgian and Peruvian academics and students. The eco-territorial movement in Chaparri has not only catalyzed transformations in community dynamics but also collaborations with a wide range of actors. The scholars from the activist research managed to integrate into the landscape of actors and institutions revolving around Chaparri, opening new and innovative opportunities for collaboration
Terraced landscapes. The significance of a living agricultural heritage for sustainable regional development
No full textVariations 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
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