Conservation Conferences and Expert Networks in the Short Twentieth Century

Bont, Raf de; Schleper, Simone; Schouwenburg, Hans

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“…Briefly, participants in the boredom condition ( n = 136) watched one of two 25-minute videos 1 : SIGGRAPH 98: Computer graphics conference proceedings video tape , a video on advanced computer graphics (Rose & McDermott, 1998); or Easy English: Using numbers and money , a video on learning English as a second language (Video Tutor, 1995). Participants in the non-boredom condition ( n = 63) watched 25 min of the action video Speed (de Bont, 1994). To enhance participants’ feelings of boredom or interest, perceptions of choice and passage of time were also manipulated, both of which have been shown to influence state boredom (London & Monello, 1974; Troutwine & O’Neal, 1981).…”

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Exploring the Utility of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale

Hunter

Dyer

Cribbie

et al. 2016

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Abstract. State boredom – the experience of boredom in the moment – is related to a number of psychosocial issues. Until the recent creation of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS), research was constrained by the lack of a comprehensive, validated measure. However, the MSBS could benefit from further evaluation. To more thoroughly validate the MSBS. In two studies, participants were induced into a state of either boredom or non-boredom, and then completed the MSBS. Discriminant analysis showed that the full MSBS was able to correctly classify 68.1% (Study 2) – 84.1% (Study 1) of participants into their experimental condition. Based on further DA analysis, a subset of eight items (a potential short form) is proposed. Differential item functioning (Study 1) found only one item to which responding differed by gender. Use of the MSBS, including the full scale versus the short form, is discussed. Which experiential components of boredom may be particularly important for classifying bored individuals, and the issue of variability across boredom manipulations, are also considered.

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Exploring the Utility of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale

Hunter

Dyer

Cribbie

et al. 2016

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Before Biodiversity: Trajectories of National Parks in Latin America (1930s–1980s)

Freitas,

Leal,

Wakild

2024

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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Almost a century ago, long before biodiversity expressed a scientific value for nature, Latin American countries began establishing national parks. Today, they represent over 6 percent of Latin America’s landmass. By considering national park creation across a broad regional span and six crucial decades, this article explains a mode of state formation focused on caring for nature instead of just exploiting it. It examines how national parks expanded in the region by identifying three consequent trajectories: the use of these conservation units for frontier development in Argentina and as part of a broader project seeking social justice in Mexico; the formation of more haphazard park initiatives in various countries, taking Brazil and Chile as main examples; and the development of ecologically coherent park systems through the cases of Peru and Colombia. The article also addresses the role of science (especially forestry) and international cooperation in shaping national parks. In this manner, it uncovers the paths that faded from view after the idea that parks intend to protect biodiversity took hold and illustrates a rarely acknowledged aspect of state expansion.

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Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden

Beckman

2023

Br J Hist Sci

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This paper examines the crowded landscape of conferences and organizations within which the International Foundation for Science (IFS) was shaped in the early 1970s. The IFS aimed to support scientists from developing countries, circumventing the bureaucracy of established international organizations such as UNESCO and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The new foundation was a potential rival to such institutions, which ironically provided the conditions essential to its emergence. Their conferences, board meetings and assemblies, where scientists and policy makers convened, provided key infrastructure for the development of the IFS. This infrastructure appears simultaneously both as an almost invisible feature of international science policy, and as a political problem. The solution to this problem was Stockholm: a geographical place that was also placeless, occupying both national and international status, desirable in its political, scientific and geographical neutrality. In an organizational context, academies and scientific societies who found their role circumscribed by existing international institutions used the IFS to argue for their particular role and expertise in funding and promoting scientific development. Geographically and politically, neutral Sweden provided a setting which was located between East and West, and which added to the country's own reputation for championing the causes of developing nations.

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Conservation Conferences and Expert Networks in the Short Twentieth Century

Cited by 7 publications

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Exploring the Utility of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale

Exploring the Utility of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale

Before Biodiversity: Trajectories of National Parks in Latin America (1930s–1980s)

Niche development: the International Foundation for Science and the road to Sweden

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