SOURCING CHIHUAHUAN POLYCHROME CERAMICS: ASSESSING MEDIO PERIOD ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Triadan ◽  
Eduardo Gamboa Carrera ◽  
M. James Blackman ◽  
Ronald L. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Casas Grandes ◽  
New Information ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Ceramic Sourcing

Traditionally, the wide distribution of distinctive Chihuahuan polychrome ceramics has been interpreted as evidence for the extensive interaction sphere of Casas Grandes, or Paquime. The role of the major center of Paquime in the political and economic system is a crucial question in defining the nature and intensity of interactions in the Casas Grandes region and the extent of intraregional social and political integration. A large-scale, regional sourcing project using Chihuahuan polychrome ceramics provides new information on their production and distribution. It also demonstrates the limitations of ceramic sourcing analyses and presents a strong case for the fact that the underlying geology of a region determines the resolution at which ceramics can be attributed to production loci or resource procurement zones.

The People

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Pines
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Political Culture

This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of Chinese political culture, such as monarchism and intellectual elitism. Moreover, the chapter looks at why the rebellions serve to support rather than disrupt the empire's longevity. These issues are then related to the broader issue of the political role of the “people,” here referring primarily, although not exclusively, to the lower strata, in the Chinese imperial enterprise. In answering these questions, this chapter focuses on ideological and social factors that both legitimated rebellions and also enabled their accommodation within the imperial enterprise.

Addressing Contextual Influences During ICT Innovation for Public Sector Reform

2013 ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elpida Prasopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Technology Project ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information Technology Project

In recent years, ICT innovation is explicitly linked to deep structural reforms in public administrations. In this chapter, I examine the role of context, during the establishment of a minimal and accountable government apparatus, using the concept of negotiation space as my theoretical lens. The process of imbricating ICT innovation within the local context is viewed as a clash between local institutions and the ones carried by new Information Technologies. This clash is empirically examined in the case of TAXIS, the flagship Information Technology project of the Greek government in the mid 1990s. TAXIS’s implementation has been strongly supported by both the political system and Greek society. Nevertheless, ICT innovation did not trigger radical changes in taxation. Instead, it was infused by strongly engrained political practices which resulted in the implementation of an Information System functional yet unable to support radical tax reform.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 697-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Korsgaard ◽  
Richard A Hunt ◽  
David M Townsend ◽  
Mads Bruun Ingstrup
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

Given the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of space in the global economic system has emerged as critical in a hitherto unprecedented way. Even as large-scale, globally operating digital platform enterprises find new ways to thrive in the midst of a crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nestled in local economies have proven to be fragile to shocks, causing countless local economies to unravel in the face of severe challenges to survival. Here, we discuss the role of entrepreneurship in re-building local economies that are more resilient. Specifically, we take a spatial perspective and highlight how the COVID-19 crisis has uncovered problems in the current tendency for thin contextualisation and promotion of globalisation. Based on this critique, we outline new perspectives for thinking about the relationship between entrepreneurship, resilience and local economies. Here, a particular emphasis is given to resilience building through deeply contextualised policies and research, localised flows of products and labour, and the diversification of local economies.

Fronteras y literatura: El perióódico La Patria (El Paso, Texas, 1919-1925)

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Blanca Rodrííguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production And Distribution

This essay examines the contributions of the newspaper La Patria, published in El Paso, Texas, from 1919 to 1925, to the formation of a literary culture. Based on research in the archives of the paper's founder, Silvestre Terrazas, the essay discusses the political identity of the newspaper, its production and distribution, as well as various literary and journalistic genres given voice in the paper. The author also assesses the role of the Mexican press in the United States in establishing the foundation for the Spanish literary boom on both sides of the border. The study also attempts to rescue Mexican journalism born beyond our border. Sustentado en el archivo de Silvestre Terrazas y en el perióódico La Patria, este ensayo examina principalmente sus contribuciones a la formacióón de una cultura literaria. Se ofrece una semblanza de su filiacióón políítica y datos sobre su produccióón y distribucióón; informa sobre la difusióón de algunos gééneros literarios y periodíísticos para concluir con una valoracióón de la prensa mexicana en los Estados Unidos, que sentóó algunas bases para el auge literario en españñol en ambas fronteras.

scholarly journals MODERN FORMS AND METHODS OF BİBLİOGRAPHİC ACTİVİTY İN LİBRARİES

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
SOLMAZ AZAY GIZI SADIGOVA
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The article discusses modern forms and methods of bibliographic activity in libraries. The role of modern information and communication technologies is explained. The information society places new demands on all social and communication institutions, including the activation of the formation of electronic document space, libraries and bibliographies. It is noted that the information society, the activation of the formation of electronic document space, puts new demands on all social and communication institutions, including libraries and bibliographies. New information technologies allow to significantly expand, deepen and diversify all forms of information and bibliographic services, which makes them faster, more efficient and more convenient. At the same time, it is explained that with the application of digital technologies, the category of information and bibliographic services is becoming a daily information service used by any reader of any library. Electronic catalogs are becoming powerful information systems to support the work of libraries and perform large-scale tasks.

scholarly journals Containing climate change: The new governmental strategies of catastrophic environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862090238
Author(s):  
Nicholas Beuret
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change

The only existing plans to arrest dangerous climate change depend on either yet to be invented technologies to keep us below 2°C or on crashing the world economy for decades to come. The political choice appears to be between doing what is scientifically necessary or what is politically realistic; between shifting to an entirely different kind of global socio-economic system or suffering catastrophe. We are thus in a moment of governmental impasse, caught between old and still-emerging political rationalities. Working through the liminal governmental role of environmental non-governmental organisations, this paper explores the shift from governmental regimes centred on biopower to ones that work through the register of geopower, from governing life to governing the conditions of life. Confronted with climate change as an irresolvable problem, what we find emerging are techniques that aim to contain the worst effects of climate change without fundamentally transforming the global economy.

scholarly journals The role of infrastructure efficiency in economic development—The case of underused highways in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
José Pedro Pontes ◽  
Joana Pais
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Aggregate Productivity ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Productivity Level ◽  
The One

In this paper, we establish a two-way causality between the phenomenon of infrastructure which is underused (the so-called “white elephant case”) and the aggregate productivity level (TFP) of the economy. On the one hand, the fact that a transport infrastructure is not used as much as it could be is itself a cause of low TFP because it represents low productivity for an important item of social capital. On the other hand, low aggregate productivity makes firms’ strategies founded on large scale of production and exports riskier, given the possibility that the political decision to build the required transport infrastructure may never be taken.

scholarly journals The role of the patient: from spectator to active player in the path of personal prevention and healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Nava Tiziana
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Active Player ◽  
New Information ◽  
Real World Evidence ◽  
Care Models ◽  
New Vision

The scientific, technological, cultural, and social transformations occurred during the last two decades have pushed the role of patients beyond a paternalistic relationship with the doctor. With the explosion of digital and new information tools available to all, and a growing consumerist view of healthcare service delivery, patients have developed a new vision of themselves in their care pathways. Expertise is increasingly shared and care models are shifting the patient to the centre, allowing a two-way information flow where both patient experience and scientific or medical information have the same value to reach the final outcome. The creation of "expert patient" positions and the involvement of patient interest groups into scientific research and large-scale real-world-evidence projects are further consolidating the involvement of patients into the healthcare paradigm. In this scenario, rethinking and designing interdisciplinary clinical and operational work will be crucial for a well-coordinated management in which patients and their caregivers are an active part of the process.

The Role of Research in the Unification of a Discipline

1981 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Science Major

Large-scale complex research project designs are providing a new impetus to the elimination of subfield boundaries within political science. Major projects are taking advantage of the methodology and technology of contemporary social research to include comparisons among institutions, across cultural boundaries, and extending through time. As a consequence, traditionally narrow field and subfield concentrations on segments of the political process are giving way to intellectual interests that bring together hitherto separate concerns. The full potential for discipline-unifying research will, however, not be realized until there is a strengthening of the organizational infrastructures for research, a broadening of training in research design and administration, and an increase in funding for large-scale projects. The execution and subsequent intellectual exploitation of large research projects will carry additional problems that will be solved only with substantial changes in the workways of the political scientist, but those problems are greatly outweighed by the positive contribution that such research will make to the future of the discipline.

scholarly journals Powering the state: The political geographies of electrification in Mozambique

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Power ◽  
Joshua Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
The Political ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Discursive Power

This paper explores the role of electricity infrastructures in helping to create, expand or limit the contours of the state in post-colonial Mozambique. Through a focus on recent electrification campaigns and attempts to improve sustainable energy access, we argue that the extension of electricity infrastructures helps to counter the state’s ‘blindness’ and to provide a more permanent visibility for the state whilst potentially enhancing its capacity to order, arrange and ‘read’ its territory and citizenry (particularly in contested rural peripheries). We argue that the material and symbolic work of large-scale infrastructural works around rural electrification and grid extension constitute an important means through which the state performs and narrates its presence and role in order to gain meaning and importance in the lives of rural residents and to forge connections with them. Aside from extending the power and reach of state institutions and their territorial authority, we contend that the development of electricity infrastructures also helps to create neoliberal subjectivities and advance neoliberalisation whilst creating lucrative opportunities for elite accumulation. We examine the different forms of institutional, material and discursive power that influence why some ways of organising energy are privileged over others and reflect on the resulting implications for energy access inequalities and state–citizen relations.

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