Transnational Knowledge Projects and Failing Racial Etiquette

Abstract: This essay calls upon Chicana/o Studies scholars to interrogate some of the assumptions underwriting the transnational turn. Chief among these is the implicit supposition that in order to produce transnational scholarship, one simply (but necessarily) must cross a national border. On the one hand, in taking the concept “transnational” far too literally, this simplistic assumption ignores far more substantive and compelling questions about transnational capitalism’s affects on subjectivity, desire, and resistance. On the other hand, the (sole) crossing-borders criterion suggests that those scholars who work on racial formations within the U.S. (Chicana/o Studies scholars, for instance) have no responsibility to think and work transnationally. Why should people, culture, racializations, literatures, produced within the U.S. not be studied within the larger context of transnational capitalism? Soto also critiques the fetishization of international difference and visibility politics. Queer theory, she argues, provides a helpful set of tools for negotiating these challenges of the transnational turn. Queer theory’s healthy poststructuralist skepticism of empiricism and positivism—together with its commitment to social justice and keen awareness of the power differentials within knowledge production—makes it poised to help us out of the temptation to simply shine a light on the global south

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Index de les obres ressenyades: Jaume BUSQUETS ; Albert CORTINA, Gestión del paisaje. Manual de protección, gestión y ordenación del paisaje. Barcelona: Ariel, 2009

Solving a locational distribution problem of non-toxic solid waste on the island of Puerto Rico

The island of Puerto Rico is confronting a crisis in waste management due to inadequate management from the local government, the decreasing number of landfills available, high population density, and paucity of places for waste disposal. This research develops a least-cost model for the disposal and transportation of non-hazardous solid waste. Location-allocation (LA) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software are used to analyze the efficiency of the present pattern of waste allocation and to identify a near-to-optimal assignment of waste for the landfills in operation today and the landfills that will be open by 2008. The “near-to-optimal” models obtained from the LA analysis are compared to a regional system that has been proposed by the Autoridad de Desperdicios Sólidos (ADS) for the management of waste and with other waste-related infrastructure. The LA analysis revealed that the present allocation of waste is not efficiently distributed. The total cost of the present allocation of waste is 99,011.5 tons (miles) per day, while the least-cost model cost would be 83,201.5 (tons) miles per day. The least-cost model for 2008 allocated only seventy-two of the seventy-six municipios on the main island, leaving highly populated regions and 2,207.5 tons of waste generated per day out of the analysis. Most of the waste coming from the northeast would be transported to Humacao’s landfill (east). These results appear to be more economically efficient than other scenarios considered by the ADS. By 2008 most of the regions will be facing greater demands than landfill capacity. The scenario that presents the biggest savings is the LA model with twenty-seven landfills, while the model developed for 2008 provides better results than predicted by ADS, but the total distances values and cost are higher than the other scenarios evaluated. This suggests that more landfills might be needed by 2008 in order to save in operating costs. Based on these results recommendations are posed in relation to the location of waste-related infrastructure and possible regional make-ups, among others

Integration as a source of conflict. Clash between hegemony and cooperation

El conflicto como expresión de las relaciones sociales ha sido abordado por diversos autores, toda vez que se trata de un fenómeno inherente a la vida de los seres humanos. Sin embargo, no es suficiente hacer un estudio de conceptualización, pues las relaciones entre individuos están en constante evolución y se encuentran influenciadas por diferentes contextos económicos, culturales y tecnológicos, entre otros. El proceso de globalización vivido desde finales del siglo XX ha traído consigo nuevas fuentes de conflicto, determinadas por aspectos como la multiculturalidad y la internacionalización de la política, los negocios y la información y además ha generado el surgimiento de procesos de integración económica que evidencian la existencia de relaciones hegemónicas entre actores, con una dicotomía entre conflicto y cooperación.Conflict as an expression of social relations has been approached by various authors, since it is an inherent phenomenon in the life of human beings. However, it is not enough to carry out a study of conceptualization, since relations among individuals are constantly evolving and are influenced by different economic, cultural, and technological contexts, among others. The process of globalization experienced since the end of the twentieth century has brought with it new sources of conflict, determined by aspects such as multiculturalism and the internationalization of politics, businesses, and information, in addition to generating the emergence of economic integration processes that demonstrate the existence of hegemonic relations among actors, with a dichotomy between conflict and cooperation

Gestió de les espècies exòtiques invasores a Catalunya : paper dels centres de recuperació de fauna salvatge

Treball presentat a l'assignatura de Deontologia i Veterinària Legal (21223

Hyperfine splittings of heavy quarkonium hybrids

In the framework of the Born-Oppenheimer Effective Field Theory, the hyperfine structure of heavy quarkonium hybrids at leading order in the 1/m Q expansion is determined by two potentials. We estimate those potentials by interpolating between the known short distance behavior and the long distance behavior calculated in the QCD Effective String Theory. The long distance behavior depends, at leading order, on two parameters which can be obtained from the long distance behavior of the heavy quarkonium potentials (up to sign ambiguities). The short distance behavior depends, at leading order, on two extra paramentes, which are obtained from a lattice calculation of the lower lying charmonium hybrid multiplets. This allows us to predict the hyperfine splitting both of bottomonium hybrids and of higher multiplets of charmonium hybrids. We carry out a careful error analysis and compare with other approaches.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables, matches journal versio

Fisheries-aquaculture sector in Mexico and Chile: comparative case study to reflect on their internalization

El objetivo de este artículo es comparar la importancia económica internacional del sector pesquero-acuícola en México y en Chile; resaltando las aportaciones en la producción de alimentos, la obtención de divisas por concepto de exportaciones y la función social en los empleos generados. Lo anterior se debe a que tanto México como Chile tienen una adecuada ubicación geográfica, suficientes recursos acuáticos, calidad en la fuerza de trabajo y experiencia ganada por empresarios, técnicos y académicos durante décadas, así como capital fijo acumulado en flota, puertos, industrias y actividades de mercadeo; lo que permite junto con una política económica de tipo neoliberal contar con un sector pesquero acuícola explotable y redituable, con amplias oportunidades de crecimiento económico. Para alcanzar el objetivo señalado, se aplicó el método comparativo, ya que primeramente se explicó que partes componen el funcionamiento del sector pesquero-acuícola de cada uno de estos países, que elementos influían en su comportamiento y problemática; para posteriormente por el método sintético unir los elementos heterogéneos de dicho fenómeno con el fin de analizar el comportamiento del objeto observado, y extraer los elementos más importantes para generar reflexión sólida sobre el tema

¿Nuestra carrera profesional influye en nuestro nivel de egoísmo?: estudio aplicado en el Perú

This study examines the existence of the paradigm of the human being as an egoistic individual, within the empirical plane. The possibility of variation of the degree of altruism in people’s behavior is explored according to their careers. For this analysis, we have applied experimental economics in students of the last year of their education, in Business Administration, Economics, Medicine and Sociology; all of them within a similar socioeconomic position. Other researchers have found evidence that the professional careers have, to a certain extent, some influence on the altruistic behavior. In this context, we have found that the economists would be the professional group that presents less altruistic behavior within our sample. On the other hand, by the elaboration of this study, we pretend to analyse if the gender differences are a determining factor in the degree of altruism; nevertheless, we did not find any important differences. In addition to this, our work also explores the possible influence of the geographic factor. For this, we used as a sample the department of Ica, where we made the necessary investigations for the case. On this, the individuals from this zone present a superior index of mutual cooperation, in comparison with the individuals from Lima.El presente estudio examina la existencia del paradigma que plantea al ser humano como un individuo egoísta, dentro del plano empírico. Se explora la posibilidad de variación del grado de egoísmo en las personas según sus carreras profesionales. Para dicho análisis, se ha aplicado como método la economía experimental en alumnos de los últimos ciclos de las carreras de Administración, Economía, Medicina y Sociología; todos ellos ubicados dentro de una posición socioeconómica similar. Se ha encontrado evidencia de que las carreras profesionales tienen, en cierta medida, alguna influencia sobre el grado de egoísmo que presentan las personas. En este sentido, los economistas serían el grupo profesional que más egoísmo presenta dentro de nuestra muestra. Por otro lado, mediante este estudio se buscó analizar si el género es un factor determinante en el grado de egoísmo presentado en las personas; sin embargo, en el caso de los peruanos no se encontraron diferencias importantes. Adicionalmente, el presente artículo explora también la posibilidad de la influencia del factor geográfico, en el caso del Perú, sobre el nivel o grado de egoísmo en las personas. Para esto, se utilizó como muestra el departamento de Ica, donde se realizaron las investigaciones necesarias para el caso. Sobre esto, los iqueños presentarían un índice más alto de colaboración mutua con respecto a los limeños. El estudio cobra una importante relevancia en cuanto busca y logra sustentar la idea de que los individuos no son del todo egoístas al tomar decisiones, tal como plantea la teoría económica. Asimismo, que la carrera profesional puede ser un factor que manipula e influye sobre el aumento del grado de egoísmo

Deconstructing Evolutionary Programming with ELISOR

The understanding of object-oriented languages is a confirmed obstacle. After years of confusing research into massive multiplayer online role-playing games, we disconfirm the development of scatter/gather I/O. ELISOR, our new heuristic for RAID, is the solution to all of these problems