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| Title |
The mandacaru did not blossom: Positivist science at the service of drought control in 1877-1879
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| Published in |
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702018000200012 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Paulo Cesar Gonçalves |
| Abstract |
The article surveys the "scientific solutions" proposed to address droughts in Brazil's semi-arid sertão and frames them within a historical context characterized by scientificism, which then governed Brazilian and Western intellectual thought. It investigates how "men of science" devised theories and practices regarding the region's nature and sertão society. From this perspective, the article examines the process by which the semi-arid sertão was settled; droughts since the colonial period; the social, political, and economic impact of the great drought of 1877-1879; debates and projects related to the scourge of drought; and the construction of the discourse of drought as a regional and national problem. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 11 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 11 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 2 | 18% |
| Professor | 1 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 1 | 9% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 45% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 4 | 36% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 18% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 4 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 July 2018.
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#6,757,283
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#659
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#109,131
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#13
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Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,629 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one is in the 17th percentile – i.e., 17% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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