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Easier said than defined? Conceptualising justice in food system transitions

emerge from the literature related to food system initiatives and which principles of justice do authors use? We developed an initial framework for which we drew on political philosophy literature. We then ... of this paper is to operationalise justice in the context of food system transitions that are enacted in real life, building on existing work from political philosophy, politics of justice in food and

African indigenous vegetables, gender, and the political economy of commercialization in Kenya

distributive effects of commercialization, this study conducts a political economy analysis building on conceptual work in feminist economics. It focuses the interrelationship between gender and the economy and ... analysis of economic processes to the political economy of the household, including both gender inequalities and other social inequalities. It draws attention to the weaknesses of neoclassical economics by

Structured analysis of broader GMO impacts inspired by technology assessment to inform policy decisions

broader considerations in political decision-making become more and more relevant. Against this backdrop, we identified the requirements and suggest the main elements for such a broader assessment. We use ... procedure. Member States can consider broader political considerations, including SEC, to inform their voting on market authorisation in the Standing Committee (cp. Mühlböck and Tosun 2018) . However, it is

Jean Paul Gaultier: Diversidad e Inclusión

Today, diversity and inclusion issues are on almost in all world agendas, be they political, social or economic. This is because the world is moving forward, not always at the ideal speed, but it is

Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue: understanding the relationships between food and nutrition infrastructures along a continuum of contested and hybrid access

research and policy. We draw in particular on work within wider urban political economy and political ecology that can be classified as part of the ‘infrastructural turn’ that is influential with urban ... how food is implicated within infrastructure assemblages, we draw on urban political ecology and other critical studies of urban systems to understand how such urban infrastructures function, i.e., the

El diseño de servicios públicos: la experiencia del ciudadano como usuario de servicios

quality and the availability of technically selected equipment in contrast to the perception of quality when the equipment is selected for political agendas.In addition, the role of the media in

On heroines and the ethics of revenge: Emma Zunz and Borges’ metaphilosophy

; philosophy in Borges; retribution.. ... Philosophy (Brown University), with postdoctoral studies in Oxford University. His research interests have been mainly in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind, but they also include Latin American Thought and

What is culturally appropriate food consumption? A systematic literature review exploring six conceptual themes and their implications for sustainable food system transformation

main ways: either as a relatively static obstacle to be overcome, or as a dynamic and negotiated process. Both perspectives, we argue, entail different scientific, practical and political effects. Each ... , practical and political effects, and that both perspectives raise challenges and opportunities for efforts towards food system transformation. Rather than adjudicating between approaches we argue that both

Worldviews, values and perspectives towards the future of the livestock sector

The livestock sector is under increasing pressure to respond to numerous sustainability and health challenges related to the production and consumption of livestock products. However, political and ... , political and market barriers and conflicting worldviews and values across the environmental, socio-economic and political domains have led to considerable sector inertia, and government inaction. The

Genebanking plant genetic resources in the postgenomic era

further embrace the moral, ethical and ultimately political principles on which they were built. Repurposing genebanks as decentralised digital biocentres could help relocate capabilities and stewardship ... benefits from state-of-the-art tools of modern plant breeding may allow bridging the breeding divide. However, to accomplish such a paradigm shift, genebanks require a strong political mandate that must

La Imagen de la Política enPandemia: Cuando todo Comunica

, managing the political image becomes a huge challenge for advisers and specialists on the subject.With this work, the aim is to present the new reality to design, manage and manage the image of politicians

Construcción de la Pos-verdad en la Gráfica Política Latinoamericana

This article addresses the phenomenon of post-truth in the political graphic design of Latin America, in the last two decades. Although it is not a new phenomenon, it has emerged much more strongly ... strongly, on a regional scale, in the 21st century and with the rise of social networks. A large amount of the Latin American political graph campaign suffers from the Beck Effect, that is, a distortion of

Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India

farmers that lead to severe losses in yield and income. Using the vulnerability concept as a framework, we embed our findings in a political-economic context by drawing on Harvey’s notion of accumulation by ... provide such a reassessment by means of a political-economic discussion of the recent technological failure of Bt cotton in India. Therefore, we follow Flachs (2019a), who postulates a lack of critical

The art of Buddhist connectivity: Organic rice farming in Thailand

philosophy in the developing world and the governance of the GPNs of organic rice. ... to address the research question, this article draws on the literature on “food philosophy” ( Schösler et al. 2013 ). While Schösler et al. examine organic consumption patterns with an emphasis on

Encontros com a Civilização Brasileira e Coleção Primeiros Passos: edição, política e democracia no Brasil (1979-1985).

, themes, and new book formats in their catalogs. By building means of broadening the political participation of the Brazilian intelligentsia in new cultural spaces at the end of the civil-military ... the civil-military dictatorship, publishers such as Caio Graco Prado (Brasiliense) and Enio Silveira (Civilizacao Brasileira) continued their political-cultural practices of resistance to the military

Indumentaria indígena: ética, política y diseño. Una mirada sobre el artefacto vestimentario de la mujer chibuleo

Clothing, as a design artifact worn by indigenous women during the 1990s, has political inscriptions that transform the social body of these women into a political body, which denounces oppression ... transformed into a political body, whose clothing makes women visible in the urban public space, and with this, the existence of this same people in the framework of the fight and demand for rights of

Conexões com o mundo: verdade e representação na teoria política contemporânea

representations, images and tropes rather than on dogmas such as those of objective reality and self-evident truths of reason, which mark the development of Western political theory and practice. While a ... political theory. Keywords: Pictorial turn; Skepticism; Relativism. “Nada é tão traiçoeiro como o que é evidente”. Joseph Schumpeter O título deste ensaio remete à obra Connections to the World

Un aire de familia. Ley de Cine, recurrencias y aspectos comunes en el cine ecuatoriano del post-indigenismo

At the beginning of the 1980s, Ecuadorian cinema experienced a period of in-tense activity with very political and militant productions made from an indigenist point of view. 26 years later, after ... the adoption of the country’s first cinema law, it would, instead, lead to a cinema without interest in political matters, markedly hedonistic ¿What do the two moments have in common? That, in both of

A one-sided love affair? On the potential for a coalition between degrowth and community-supported agriculture in Germany

ideologies and political strategies of the two movements are not aligned, which manifests in their main frames and action repertoires, among other areas, which are articulated at different levels of ... compare both movements' ideological and strategic alignment, as well as the conducive and/or hindering factors for coalition building. We find that the ideologies and political strategies of the two

Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods

ends with a plea to better connect food democracy scholarship with the broader political sciences, as well as various suggestions for future research. ... liberalist assumptions may actually be at the root of many societal woes. Connecting democratic innovation scholarship with alternative schools of political philosophy, such as communitarianism or