We Eat to Live, We Live to Eat

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitland M. Byrd ◽  
W. Carson Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Multifaceted Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Food

In this introduction to the special issue on “Foodways and Inequality: Toward a Sociology of Food Culture and Movements,” we describe our path to the sociological study inequality through food, and how the articles included in this special issue fit this framework. The overarching goal of this issue is to present a multifaceted approach to studying food from more cultural and structural perspectives. In particular, the authors take varied approaches to understanding how inequalities shape individual’s experiences with food while also offering possible solutions through a more humanist sociological project around food and foodways. The articles and reviews included in this special issue offer much needed sociological insights into current social problems centering on food such as hunger and exploitation.

scholarly journals Special issue: Illuminating occupations at the heart of social problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-293
Author(s):  
Debbie Laliberte Rudman ◽  
Juman Simaan ◽  
Shoba Nayar
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Proliferating illiteracy in the universities: A Nigerian perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Nwaopara ◽  
Anthony Ifebhor ◽  
Frank Ohiwerei
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Multifaceted Approach ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Nigerian Students

The Nigerian educational system is in crisis. This paper aims to describe that crisis and demonstrate how this situation is contributing to a downward spiral in academic standards, and in particular its effect on decreasing literacy among Nigerian students. While recognising that the educational system is part of a much broader societal predicament, this paper nevertheless makes a number of recommendations for improvements to the Nigerian educational system, including a call for increased government funding of the education system, the need for constructive solutions to end cultism, and a multifaceted approach to entrenched social problems.

scholarly journals Introduction: Edible Alterities, Perspectives from La Francophonie

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Giovanangeli ◽  
Julie Robert
Keyword(s):  
Food Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Food Cultures ◽  
Different Parts

This special issue of Portal contains papers that investigate the ways in which food and food cultures have created but have also disrupted links between different parts of the Fancophone world and between Francophone culture and other societies. Long considered a cornerstone of what is “French”, food and food culture in French speaking societies outside of France (and outside of many of the major centres of French cuisine within France) have been eclipsed by the dominance of the French culinary tradition. This volume uses examinations of literature, festivals, daily practices, languages and diaries to explore how Francophone cultures outside of France have not only positioned themselves relative to the dominant models of French food culture, but have used local produce and practices to question the fundamental assumptions and conventions concerning food in Francophone societies and in broader transnational contexts.

scholarly journals ‘Families and Relationships’ e-Special Issue Introduction

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa May ◽  
Matt Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sociology Of The Family ◽  
Selection Of

This ‘Families and Relationships’ e-Special Issue contains a selection of 10 articles previously published in Sociology. In this Introduction, we first outline the broader sub-disciplinary context and explain our selection criteria. The increased popularity of families and relationships as a focus of sociological study is reflected in the dominance of articles published in the 1990s and later. Our selection highlights the following developments within the field: the shift from the sociology of the family to a sociology of families; the debates surrounding late modernity and the individualisation thesis; increased diversity regarding types of family and kinds of issue that have been researched; and continued theoretical development that has widened the scope of study. We include reflections on how the selected articles speak to developments in the discipline at large and in the field of families and relationships, as well as what the future might hold for the field.

scholarly journals Social Innovation: Integrating Micro, Meso, and Macro Level Insights From Institutional Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakomijn van Wijk ◽  
Charlene Zietsma ◽  
Silvia Dorado ◽  
Frank G. A. de Bakker ◽  
Ignasi Martí
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cycle Model ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Innovation Processes

Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront complex social problems. As these social problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, developing and implementing innovative solutions involve the re-negotiating of settled institutions or the building of new ones. In this introductory article, we introduce a stylized three-cycle model highlighting the institutional nature of social innovation efforts. The model conceptualizes social innovation processes as the product of agentic, relational, and situated dynamics in three interrelated cycles that operate at the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. The five papers included in this special issue address one or more of these cycles. We draw on these papers and the model to stimulate and offer guidance to future conversations on social innovations from an institutional theory perspective.

scholarly journals Innovative, sustainable, and circular agricultural systems for the future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerold Rahmann ◽  
Khalid Azim ◽  
Irena Brányiková ◽  
Mahesh Chander ◽  
Wahyudi David ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Nutrient Management ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Global Population

AbstractThis special issue presents the outcomes from “Designing sustainable and circular agricultural systems for the year 2100,” the joint scientific workshop of ISOFAR, the Thünen-Institute, and INRA-Morocco, which was held from November 14 to 16, 2019 in Marrakesh, Morocco. Nineteen scientists from a broad array of background and nationalities came together with the understanding that food security globally is at risk, especially in the post-2050 timeframe. Current concepts, strategies, measures, and scientific efforts carried out by governments, NGOs, businesses, and societies do not deliver satisfying solutions for how to sustainably produce enough healthy and affordable food to support the global population. With the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, it became even more evident that food security is a challenge. This workshop took an innovative approach to addressing the challenges of future agriculture by considering sustainable, circular agricultural systems. Participants presented research results on algae-based food, edible insects, mushrooms, novel concepts for nutrient management, bioreactor-based farming, sustainable food culture, as well as sensor- and remote-controlled automatic food production. This special issue presents the papers contributed to the workshop and the results of the discussions.

scholarly journals Digital food culture, power and everyday life

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110555
Author(s):  
Zeena Feldman ◽  
Michael K. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Key Questions

Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture’s capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline’s commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue’s papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.

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