The Latin American Plant Sciences Network: a collaborative regional effort in science training

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Kalin De Arroyo ◽  
S. Dietrich ◽  
E. Forero ◽  
S. Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Plant Sciences ◽  
Science Training ◽  
Regional Effort

Latin American plant sciences: from early naturalists to modern science

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Stoll ◽  
Francisco A. Squeo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Plant Sciences

scholarly journals Global Plants: A Model of International Collaboration 

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e28233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Ryan
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Financial Model ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Plant Sciences ◽  
African Plants ◽  
The Impact

Global Plants (http://plants.jstor.org) is a community-contributed database that features more than two million high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of more than 300 herbaria in 70 countries. Complementing the high resolution specimen images are extensive flora and other reference materials, collectors' correspondence and diaries, and tens of thousands of paintings, photographs, drawings, and other images. Global Plants is the outcome of the African Plants Initiative (API), the Latin American Plants Initiative (LAPI) and the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) which was funded generously by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for over a decade. The vision of creating a digital library of type specimen images and related material available to students and researchers around the world has largely been realized. What has the impact been on herbaria? What is the status of digitization across the partner institutions such as NYBG? How can we continue to keep the network flourishing and ensure all partners can continue to contribute? How has/has the financial model worked to achieve the correct balance between accessibility and sustainability? Looking to the future, we are interested in exploring how the foundation established by Global Plants can be built upon to explore future digital projects that both support and expand upon the existing field of researchers. Existing initiatives include “Global Plants in the Classroom: Botany 101” (http://botany101.jstor.org/), an open teaching resource that introduces botany and the plant sciences to a new audience, and “Livingstone’s Zambezi Expedition (beta)”, a project built with the JSTOR Labs team that explores a different approach to bringing together specimens and historic materials around a specific botanical expedition. Other initiatives in progress include a partnership with Dumbarton Oaks and a new digital collection from JSTOR called Plants & Society, both of which seek to create a space through which scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities can come together in the study of plants and their relationships to humanity.

Alejandro Álvarez Situated: Subaltern Modernities and Modernisms that Subvert

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARNULF BECKER LORCA
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political History ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
American Character ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Regional Effort

Alejandro Álvarez's professional trajectory forces us to rethink the traditional modes of reading and writing the history of international law. Álvarez was central to the development of modern international law. He also happened to be a Latin American international lawyer. Should we interpret his work and life against the background of the intellectual and political history of Europe? Are the contexts that relate to the crisis of the European balance of power or the rise of nationalism the only ones that explain the emergence of a modern international legal discourse? This article situates Álvarez's scholarship within the intellectual, economic, and political history of Latin America. Interpreting Álvarez in the context of a genealogy of modernist Latin American thinkers illustrates the extent to which his work was part of a broader regional effort to appropriate European cultural artefacts in ways that granted them both a cosmopolitan and a distinctively Latin American character. Álvarez's modernism reinvented the meaning and uses of international law as a strategic foreign-policy tool in the interest of Latin American countries, a reinterpretation that contributed also to the construction of a Latin American identity and thought.

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