Traditional foods: a science and society perspective

In the first section of this paper I present a brief picture, using available data, of the current situation of UK women in scientific education and employment. I then discuss the need for new data and describe some of the initiatives which have been taking place, primarily at the European level, to redress this issue. In the third section, having listed the various arguments which can be found in the literature about why the ‘women and science’ issue matters, I focus particularly on a new development in European Commission thinking: the link with the ‘science and society’ perspective. Finally, I offer some thoughts about the limitations of gathering quantitative data only, arguing that qualitative research into the institutions of science is also required if we are to understand more about the cultural aspects of science that appear to be persistently alienating for girls and women.

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Disciplining Polenta: A Parody on the Politics of Saving Food

Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture ◽

10.1525/gfc.2020.20.2.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Zachary Nowak ◽

Bradley M. Jones ◽

Elisa Ascione

Keyword(s):

Food Products ◽

Social Value ◽

Traditional Food ◽

Traditional Foods ◽

Time And Space ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Identity Creation ◽

The Past ◽

The Social

This article begins with a parody, a fictitious set of regulations for the production of “traditional” Italian polenta. Through analysis of primary and secondary historical sources we then discuss the various meanings of which polenta has been the bearer through time and space in order to emphasize the mutability of the modes of preparation, ingredients, and the social value of traditional food products. Finally, we situate polenta within its broader cultural, political, and economic contexts, underlining the uses and abuses of rendering foods as traditional—a process always incomplete, often contested, never organic. In stirring up the past and present of polenta and placing it within both the projects of Italian identity creation and the broader scholarly literature on culinary tradition and taste, we emphasize that for so-called traditional foods to be saved, they must be continually reinvented.

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The Transnational Women's Rights Movement and the World Economy

Sociology of Development ◽

10.1525/sod.2020.6.2.145 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 145-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Heidi E. Rademacher

Keyword(s):

Women's Rights ◽

Small Body ◽

World System ◽

World Society ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Social Movement Organizations ◽

Global Movement ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Society Perspective ◽

The Impact

Promoting the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was a key objective of the transnational women's movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, few studies examine what factors contribute to ratification. The small body of literature on this topic comes from a world-society perspective, which suggests that CEDAW represented a global shift toward women's rights and that ratification increased as international NGOs proliferated. However, this framing fails to consider whether diffusion varies in a stratified world-system. I combine world-society and world-systems approaches, adding to the literature by examining the impact of women's and human rights transnational social movement organizations on CEDAW ratification at varied world-system positions. The findings illustrate the complex strengths and limitations of a global movement, with such organizations having a negative effect on ratification among core nations, a positive effect in the semiperiphery, and no effect among periphery nations. This suggests that the impact of mobilization was neither a universal application of global scripts nor simply representative of the broad domination of core nations, but a complex and diverse result of civil society actors embedded in a politically stratified world.

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Filsafat Eksistensialisme: Telaah Ajaran dan Relevansinya dengan Tujuan Pendidikan di Indonesia

INSANIA Jurnal Pemikiran Alternatif Kependidikan ◽

10.24090/insania.v14i3.357 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 336-447

Author(s):

Mahmudah Mahmudah

Keyword(s):

Modern Philosophy ◽

Developing Country ◽

Human Life ◽

Society Perspective

existentialism is a school of modern philosophy that contains several very different branches, and has different influence. Commonly, philosophy discusses about God, macrocosms and microcosms, therefore existentialism centre its discussion about microcosms. In existentialism, there two school of thought, namely atheistic and theistic. From existentialism teaching, we cam understand that what individual and society produced are a step to enhancement. Therefore, there are sectors on human life that finished, from individual or society perspective. This has relevance with developing country like Indonesia that has been implement reformation at every side, include education.

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Pergeseran Bahasa Sunda dalam Leksikon Makanan Tradisional Sunda di Kabupaten Bandung dalam Perspektif Sosiolinguistik Mikro

Metahumaniora ◽

10.24198/mh.v8i3.20710 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 312

Author(s):

Wagiati Wagiati

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Method ◽

Language Shift ◽

Traditional Food ◽

Traditional Foods ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Language Retention ◽

Data Source ◽

Linguistic Innovation ◽

Lexical Innovation ◽

Determining Factor

AbstrakPenelitian ini berjudul “Pergeseran Bahasa Sunda dalam Leksikon Makanan Tradisional Sunda di Kabupaten Bandung dalam Perspektif Sosiolinguistik Mikro”. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjelaskan bentuk-bentuk perubahan dan inovasi bahasa dalam leksikon-leksikon makanan tradisional Sunda yang menjadi faktor penentu terjadinya pemertahanan atau pergeseran suatu bahasa. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif-deskriptif. Sumber data pada penelitian ini berupa leksikon-leksikon makanan tradisional di Kabupaten Bandung. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) bahasa Sunda dalam leksikon makanan tradisional Sunda sebagian besar telah mengalami inovasi; (2) gejala perubahan bentuk dari leksikon-leksikon makanan tradisional Sunda adalah inovasi leksikal penuh, inovasi fonetis, dan inovasi morfemis; (3) bahasa Sunda di Kabupaten Bandung dalam konsep makanan tradisional Sunda telah mengalami pergeseran bahasa secara sosiolinguistik mikro, mengingat faktor-faktor internal bahasa, yaitu berupa inovasi, telah terjadi. Inovasi tersebut meliputi inovasi leksikal penuh, inovasi fonologis, dan inovasi morfemis. Faktor-faktor internal bahasa ini menjadi faktor utama pemertahanan dan pergeseran bahasa.Kata kunci: pergeseran bahasa, makanan tradisional, sosiolinguistik mikroAbstractThe article is entitled "The shifting of Sundanese Language in Lexiconsof Sundanese Food in Bandung Regency studied by Micro Sociolinguistics". The purpose of this study is to describe the forms of change and linguistic innovation in the lexiconsof Sundanesetraditional food which become the determining factor of a language retention or shift. The methods used in this research is descriptive-qualitative method. The data source on this research are lexicons of Sundanese traditional foods in Bandung Regency. The results show that (1) Sundanese Language in the lexiconsof Sundanese Food in the majority hasundergone an innovation; (2) the morphemic change phenomemaof theSundanese traditional food lexicons consist of the full lexical innovation, innovation, innovation and phonetic morfemis; (3) There has been a shift in Sundanese language micro-sociolinguistically regarding the lexiconsof Sundanese traditional food in Bandung Regency based on internal factors of language, i.e. in the form of innovation. These innovations include the full lexical innovation, phonological innovation, and innovation morfemis. Internal factors of a language became a major factor of language retention and language shift.Keywords: language shift, traditional food, micro-sociolinguistic

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