scholarly journals Discourses of sustainability and imperial modes of food provision: agri-food-businesses and consumers in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Hirth ◽  
Theresa Bürstmayr ◽  
Anke Strüver
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Food System ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Consumer Sovereignty ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Food Provision ◽  
And Control

AbstractIt is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on the question whether those ‘great efforts’ towards sustainability require systemic changes or merely systematic ones. Drawing upon Brand and Wissen’s concept of “imperial modes of living” (Rev Int Polit Econ 20:687–711, 2013; The imperial mode of living: everyday life and the ecological crisis of capitalism, Verso, London/New York, 2021), we ask whether the lively debates about sustainability and ‘ethical’ consumption among producers and consumers in Germany are far reaching enough to sufficiently reduce the imperial weight on the environment and other human and nonhuman animals. By combining discourse analysis of agri-food businesses’ sustainability reports with narrative consumer interviews, we examine understandings of sustainability in discourses concerning responsible food provision and shed light on how those discourses are inscribed in consumers’ everyday food practices. We adopt Ehgartner’s discursive frames of ‘consumer sovereignty’, ‘economic rationality’, and ‘stewardship’ to illustrate our findings, and add a fourth one of ‘legitimacy’. Constituting the conditions under which food-related themes become sustainability issues, these frames help businesses to (1) individualise the responsibility to enact changes, (2) tie efforts towards sustainability to financial profits, (3) subject people and nature to the combination of care and control, and (4) convey legitimacy through scientific authority. We discuss how these frames, mirrored in some consumer narratives, work to sideline deeper engagement with ecological sustainability and social justice, and how they brush aside the desires of some ostensibly ‘sovereign’ consumers to overcome imperial modes of food provision through much more far reaching, systemic changes. Finally, we reflect on possible paths towards a de-imperialised food system.

Historical Crucifixion: A Liberationist Response to Deep Incarnation

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 892-912
Author(s):  
Michael E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross

In light of the social-ecological crisis facing Puerto Rico, this article offers a response to deep incarnation theologies. Though it notes that deep incarnation offers a helpful account of divine presence and solidarity with all suffering creatures, the essay draws from liberationist theologians to argue that equating the cross with evolutionary death obscures the sinful causes of crucifixion. Ultimately, the essay insists that the notion of deep incarnation that addresses evolutionary suffering must be linked to a similarly “deep” notion of crucifixion rooted in historical reality.

Impact of Advertising and Public Relations on Tourism Development in Da Nang, Vietnam

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Xuan Tran ◽  
Minh Nguyen ◽  
Ha Kieu Tan Luu ◽  
Ny Ngo ◽  
My Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Structure Equation Modeling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Destination Brand ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

An exploratory study was conducted to determine the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang, Vietnam. In 2015, Trip Advisor and New York Times selected Da Nang, Vietnam as one of the top Asia tourist destinations. This study sought to address the relationship between advertising or public relations and tourists' intention to visit based on the theory of planned behavior. Structure Equation Modeling was conducted to predict the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang. Findings indicate that an increased favorable attitude and control of advertising would increase tourist arrivals. Surprisingly, an increased positive attitude and control of public relations did not significantly affect tourists' intention to visit. Instead, the social norms of public relations were effective in driving the decision to visit but the social norms of advertising were not. The findings have contributed to destination brand through advertising and public relations. Implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Transformative Journalisms: How the ecological crisis is transforming journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brüggemann ◽  
Jannis Frech ◽  
Torsten Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Independent Observer ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Advocacy Journalism ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Ways Of Life

Growing awareness of global ecological crises has provoked a set of new practices in journalism that we suggest labelling transformative journalisms. The term encompasses a diversity of new role conceptions and practices that converge around an explicit and transparent commitment to contribute to the social-ecological transformation of societies by doing journalism. It is thus a form of advocacy journalism that is special in being dedicated to the most common of common goods, preserving the eco-systems and natural resources of the planet. Transformative journalism challenges some aspects of objectivity, such as the idea of the neutral, distanced observer. Instead, it emphasizes the elements of relevant and factually correct coverage as well as values such as transparency about values and moderating the debates that enable society to develop more sustainable ways of life. While the tension between the poles of being a critical, independent observer and sharing a mission of ecological transformation is the source of criticism by proponents of more traditional role conceptions, we also see this tension as a productive source for creativity, complementing traditional journalism with new forms of content, production, and interactions audiences as well as increased awareness of the ecological footprint of doing journalism.

scholarly journals Innovative Regulation of Meat Consumption in South Africa: An Environmental Rights Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Tokyo Ndlela ◽  
Melanie Murcott
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
And Control

Meat production is a human activity driven by meat consumption, a human behaviour normalised in today's society. Human activity stems from particular psychological patterns (manifesting as human behaviour). It is argued that through regulating the human behaviour of meat consumption the environmentally harmful impacts of the human activity of meat production can potentially be mitigated. In particular, adopting an environmental rights perspective and a social ecological ethic, this article proposes the introduction of a meat tax in South Africa as an innovative means of regulating the human behaviour of meat consumption. In Section 1 we introduce our arguments and discuss the social, ecological, ethical and environmental rights perspective from which we make them. Next, in Section 2 we discuss some of the most significant environmental harms caused by meat production and thus, indirectly, meat consumption. Then, in Section 3 we critically evaluate the command-and-control regulatory measures that currently regulate the human activity of meat production and seek in no meaningful way to regulate the psychological patterns associated with that human activity, the human behaviour of meat consumption. Lastly, in Section 4 we propose a meat tax, a type of market-based mechanism, as a regulatory measure which we argue could serve to influence human behaviour in order to reduce meat consumption and give better effect to the environmental right.

Impact of Advertising and Public Relations on Tourism Development in Da Nang, Vietnam

2019 ◽  
pp. 1115-1131
Author(s):  
Xuan Tran ◽  
Minh Nguyen ◽  
Ha Kieu Tan Luu ◽  
Ny Ngo ◽  
My Tran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Structure Equation Modeling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Destination Brand ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

An exploratory study was conducted to determine the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang, Vietnam. In 2015, Trip Advisor and New York Times selected Da Nang, Vietnam as one of the top Asia tourist destinations. This study sought to address the relationship between advertising or public relations and tourists' intention to visit based on the theory of planned behavior. Structure Equation Modeling was conducted to predict the impact of advertising and public relations on the visit intention of tourists in Da Nang. Findings indicate that an increased favorable attitude and control of advertising would increase tourist arrivals. Surprisingly, an increased positive attitude and control of public relations did not significantly affect tourists' intention to visit. Instead, the social norms of public relations were effective in driving the decision to visit but the social norms of advertising were not. The findings have contributed to destination brand through advertising and public relations. Implications are discussed.

scholarly journals American Demographers and Global Population Policy in the Postwar World

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Emily Klancher Merchant
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Global South ◽  
World War ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Control ◽  
Development Agendas ◽  
Global Population

The twentieth century saw unprecedented efforts to measure, analyze, and control the world's population. Particularly after World War II, population control and demography—the social science of human population dynamics—developed in tandem and largely through the impetus of U.S.-based philanthropies. This article explains how U.S. actors exercised power over population in sovereign nations throughout the Global South and how demographic theory came to shape population policy worldwide. It contends that U.S.-based philanthropies gained global traction for their population control projects by developing demography as an ally and then leveraging its scientific authority to put population control on the foreign policy agenda of the U.S. government and on the nation-building and economic development agendas of countries in the Global South.

scholarly journals Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 104228
Author(s):  
Melissa Pineda-Pinto ◽  
Pablo Herreros-Cantis ◽  
Timon McPhearson ◽  
Niki Frantzeskaki ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Technological System ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Justice ◽  
The Social
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