La incorporación del cacao ecuatoriano al mercado mundial entre 1840 y 1925, según los informes consulares (Estudios)

Este artículo ofrece una reinterpretación del proceso de incorporación del cacao ecuatoriano al mercado mundial, entre 1840 y 1925. Esta revisión se realiza a partir de los conceptos desarrollados por el economista italiano Giovanni Arrighi: incorporación nominal, incorporación periférica e incorporación no-periférica. Por medio de estos, el ensayo analiza la variedad de enlaces que se desarrollaron entre el centro y la periferia, y dentro la periferia misma. Se estudian especialmente dos momentos de este proceso: 1840-1890 y 1890-1910. El análisis de las articulaciones externas e internas que se dieron en cada una de estas fases y los factores de producción que los sustentaron permiten caracterizar al primer momento como ‘incorporación nominal’ y al segundo como ‘periférica’. Esta distinción permite una mejor comprensión del auge cacaotero ecuatoriano en el largo siglo XIX. El trabajo se basa en los informes consulares extranjeros, un tipo de documentación que no ha sido suficientemente estudiada todavía.

Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. 37 (SOLO LIBROS/Reseñas)

Presenta las reseñas de los libros: Óscar Almario García, Castas y razas en la independencia neogranadina, 1810-1830. Identidad y alteridad en los orígenes de la nación colombiana, Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia/Comisión para la celebración del Bicentenario, 2012, 280 pp. -- María Elena Bedoya, Prensa y espacio público en Quito 1792-1840, Quito, FONSAL, 2010, 153 pp. -- Enrique Muñoz Larrea, Albores libertarios de Quito de 1809 a 1812. El principio del fin del Imperio español, tomo I, y Cuenca del Rey. Los últimos presidentes de la Real Audiencia de Quito, tomo II, Quito, Academia Nacional de Historia/Atlantic International University, 2012, tomo I, 384 pp., tomo IIII, 483 pp.

The publication of Catherine Carswell's novels

This article draws on new documentary evidence to discuss in detail the publishing history of the novels of the Scottish writer Catherine Carswell.

Experimental analysis of the Reynolds flocking model

The classic Reynolds flocking model is formally analysed, with results presented and discussed. Flocking behaviour was investigated through the development of two measurements of flocking, flock area and polarisation, with a view to applying the findings to robotic applications. Experiments varying the flocking simulation parameters individually and simultaneously provide new insight into the control of flock behaviour.

Trans/national dis/connections: silenced networks and strained belongings with reference to Albinia Catherine MacKay and Una Marson

This paper seeks to examine the particular operations of gender and cultural politics that both shaped and restrained possible 'networked' interactions between Jamaican women and their British 'motherlands' during the first forty years of the twentieth century. Paying particular attention to the poetry of Albinia Catherine MacKay (a Scots Creole) and the political journalism of Una Marson (a black Jamaica), I shall seek to examine why both writers speak in and of voices out of place. MacKay's poems work against the critical pull of transnational modernism to reveal aesthetic and cultural isolation through a model of strained belonging in relation to both her Jamaica home and an ancestral Scotland. A small number of poems from her 1912 collection that are dedicated to the historical struggle between the English and Scots for the rule of Scotland and cultural self-determination, some of which are written in a Scottish idiom, may help us to read the complex cultural negotiations that silently inform the seemingly in commensurability of location and locution revealed in these works. In contrast, Marson's journalism, although less known even than her creative writings, is both politically and intellectually radical in its arguments concerning the mutual articulation of race and gender empowerment. However, Marson remains aware of her inability to articulate these convictions with force in a British context and thereby of the way in which speaking out of place also silences her.