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CIMAV and the Weaving of Global Knowledge Networks

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In this chapter, I explore an alternative perspective for analyzing power nodes in knowledge networks, building on actor-network theory insights where power is executed and in constant motion and that those who connect, translate, enable, and distribute it act as power nodes. The chapter claims that the formation of nodes is dynamic and multisituated. That is, the power of actors varies according to the dynamics of particular research projects and their global and local links. The chapter states that the movement of asymmetries in networks seems to offer a better understanding of current scientific engagements between the Global South and North as a complex, fluctuating, contradictory, and increasingly important phenomena. Evidence of CIMAV’s shifting nodes of power will be presented.

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    See Foladori (2006) for a critical analysis of this initiative in Latin America.

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    In relation to this idea, an historical document refers to the characteristics of this program by stating that “it is not, in fact, an ‘assistance’ program at all in the usual sense: it is, rather, a program in which Latin Americans assist the United States and simply receive payment for services rendered” (Bushnell 1965, 161).

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Suárez Estrada, M. (2018). CIMAV and the Weaving of Global Knowledge Networks. In: Nanotechnology, Governance, and Knowledge Networks in the Global South. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69514-3_5

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