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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

On Whether It Is and What It Is

This dialogue, taking place between Prof. Whether and Prof. What, focuses on the nature of the relationship between ontology, conceived as the branch of philosophy concerned with the question of what ... the complementary part of philosophy that seeks to explain, of those entities, what they are. Most philosophers claim that it is not possible to address the first question without at the same time

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

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

Three Kinds of Arguments for Panpsychism

known from the history of philosophy mainly due to the fact that the former is often combined with so-called Russellian monism. According to Russellian monism, the intrinsic properties of physical things ... Terminological Preliminaries Within the last 100 years, the analytic philosophy of mind has been dominated by materialism, a view that one can fully account for mental phenomena in purely physical terms, such as

Replies to the Critics of Knowing and Checking: an Epistemological Investigation

Investigation (Routledge 2019), hereinafter abbreviated as KC. These papers resulted from a workshop organized by the department of philosophy of the University of Maribor. I am very thankful to the organizers of ... . Admittedly, there is some plausibility to claiming that we can check by using Newtonian physics. However, this is a general problem within the philosophy of science and not a problem for checking in particular

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

Tricky Truths: How Should Alethic Pluralism Accommodate Racial Truths?

Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University , Stellenbosch , South Africa 2 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University , North Ryde , Australia Some alethic pluralists maintain that there are two ... accommodate such a notion. Philosophy of truth; Determination Pluralism; Douglas Edwards; Crispin Wright; Michael Lynch; Metaphysics of race 1 Introduction The important question of whether we should

Justified Evidence Resistance

to Mylan Engel, Thomas Grundmann, Paul Silva Jr, Mona Simion, Tom Sorell, and Luis Rosa. I have benefitted from being a Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy ... an intellectual virtue? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement , 84 , 23 - 45 . Bernecker , S. ( 2021 ). An epistemic defense of news abstinence . In S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree , & T. Grundmann (Eds

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

Virtue, Self-Narratives, and the Causes of Action

Journal of Philosophy , 13 ( 1 ), 11 - 20 . Ulatowski , J. , & Lumsden , D. ( 2023 ). Do political convictions infect every fibre of our being? Social Epistemology , 1 - 17 . https://doi.org/10.1080 ... of moral value are caused by virtues cultivated by a person over time. This is a notion that not only has relevance to popular thinking about virtues but also, within academic philosophy, has currency

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

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

In the shadow of state-led agrarian reforms: smallholder pervasiveness in rural China

mountainous regions of Hubei province and the local political economy. An analysis of data from a 2019 survey of 266 households and interviews with villagers, agribusiness executives, cooperative leaders, and ... , we analyse the livelihood strategies of the orange growers in our study villages, particularly their engagement with local NAOs. Next, we analyse the impact of rural reforms on the local political 4

Assembling agroecological socio-natures: a political ecology analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina

Program), Municipalidad de Rosario UA Urban agriculture UPE Urban political ecology 1 International Studies and Spanish, University of North Carolina at Charlotte , 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC ... assemblages. Agroecology; Argentina; Assemblages; Urban political ecology - Accepted: 15 July 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 Introduction Urban agriculture needs

“Whose demand?” The co-construction of markets, demand and gender in development-oriented crop breeding

using perspectives from political agronomy and feminist science and technology studies. By conceptualising the market as an ongoing, relational performance made up of discourses, practices and human and ... , but also to the nonhuman actors, such as the crops and traits falling outside the market sphere of interest. By putting political agronomy and feminist science and technology studies into conversation