Gastrospaces
Gastrospaces

Author: Matteo Bonotti

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-09-02

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1040125565

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This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analytic political philosophy and analytic ontology, to lay down the theoretical foundations for a multi- and interdisciplinary research agenda on the complex interconnections between food and space. Social science and humanities scholars have studied the ties between food consumption and space from multiple angles. This book sets up a different and more foundational approach, which engages with these bodies of work and integrates them into a coherent framework. While taking the reader through a theoretical journey of varying complexities, the book also illustrates the social, political, and cultural significance of gastrospaces by surveying an array of examples from diverse historical and geographical contexts. It then draws on political philosophy to show that gastrospaces are sites of justice and injustice and complements this analysis by developing an ontological model for gastrospaces that facilitates a systematic analysis of their social, political, and cultural significance. The book ends with a toolbox for the study of gastrospaces that different stakeholders may apply to their respective contexts of intervention. This book will appeal to philosophers, political scientists, food scholars, geographers, and anyone interested in the intersection between food and space. By focusing on a wide range of real-world topics related to gastrospaces, such as racist dress codes, family-friendly restaurants, speakeasies, and gendered kitchen designs, the book will also be of interest to nonacademic stakeholders such as urban planners, policymakers, designers, managers, and consumers.

Politicizing Political Liberalism
Politicizing Political Liberalism

Author: Gabriele Badano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-08-20

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0192675435

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How should broadly liberal democratic societies stop illiberal and antidemocratic views from gaining influence while honouring liberal democratic values? This question has become particularly pressing after the recent successes of right-wing populist leaders and parties across Europe, in the US, and beyond. This book develops a normative account of liberal democratic self-defence that denounces the failures of real-world societies without excusing those supporting illiberal and antidemocratic political actors. This account is innovative in focusing not only on the role of the state but also on the duties of nonstate actors including citizens, partisans, and municipalities. Consequently, it also addresses cases where the central government has at least been partly captured by illiberal and antidemocratic agents. Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti's approach builds on John Rawls's treatment of political liberalism and his awareness of the need to 'contain' unreasonable views, that is, views denying that society should treat every person as free and equal through a mutually acceptable system of social cooperation where pluralism is to be expected. The authors offer original solutions to vexed problems within political liberalism by putting forward a new account of the relation between ideal and non-ideal theory, explaining why it is justifiable to exclude unreasonable persons from the constituency of public reason, and showing that the strictures of public reason do not apply to those suffering from severe injustice. In doing so, the book further politicizes political liberalism and turns it into a framework that can insightfully respond to the challenges of real politics.

Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property
Food, Philosophy, and Intellectual Property

Author: Enrico Bonadio

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-08

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1040097197

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This is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights. Taken separately, these are three well-known subjects, but it is uncommon to consider them together. The book comprises 50 case studies, organized around eight themes: images; genericity and descriptiveness; language traps; procedures; menus, recipes, and creativity; boundaries; biotech; and empowerment. The introductory chapter frames the selection of cases and encourages readers to look beyond them, envisaging new lenses to look at food vis-à-vis intellectual property. The terrain encompassed is wide-ranging and reaches out to fine-grained aspects of food products, recipes, and cooking. Conceived for a wide scope of readers, the volume ultimately interrogates the links between food and cultural identity, bringing to the fore the ethical, political, and aesthetic worth of culinary arts and gastronomic experiences. This accessible book will be of value to scholars, students, practitioners, and others with interests in the areas of intellectual property, food law, and food studies.

Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space
Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space

Author: Oliviu Felecan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 1443852171

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Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space aims at analysing names and name-giving from an intercultural perspective, within the context of contemporary public space. As was the case of Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), the geographical areas investigated in the studies included in this volume are very diverse, referring not only to European cultural space, but also to American, Asian, African and Australian contexts. Being a collective work, the book brings together 49 specialists from 18 countries; namely Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA. Thematically, the volume is organised so that it may cover all the dimensions of public space, as far as onomastics is concerned. The specific areas studied are: the theory of names; names of public places (linguistic landscapes); names of public, economic, cultural, religious and sports institutions (names of business establishments, religious institutions – places of worship – and cultural associations, as well as names in journals and magazines); names of objects/entities resulting from various processes in public space (names of foods, drinks and food brands, code names of collaborators in secret service organisations, names in literature, nicknames/bynames/pseudonyms in the world of politics, high life, art and sport, names in virtual space, and zoonyms); and miscellanea. The originality and topicality of the subject lie in the multidisciplinary viewpoint adopted in the research, in which onomastics merges with adjacent linguistic disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and pragmatics, as well as other sciences, such as history, literature, anthropology, politics, economy and religion.

Two Decades of Knowledge
Two Decades of Knowledge

Author: Bronny Lawrence Nawe

Publisher: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9839205633

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Two Decades of Knowledge is a compilation of papers, slides, posters and book chapters written and presented by informational professionals of Pustaka Negeri Sarawak in conferences, seminars and workshop at national, regional and international level. It is a twenty-year accumulation of knowledge and active contribution by Pustaka Negeri Sarawak to the nurturing of a well-informed society.

Gastrospaces
Gastrospaces

Author: Matteo Bonotti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-09-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032596426

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This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analytic political philosophy and analytic ontology, to lay down the theoretical foundations for a multi- and inter-disciplinary research agenda on the complex interconnections between food and space. Social science and humanities scholars have studied the ties between food consumption and space from multiple angles. This book sets up a different and more foundational approach, which engages with these bodies of work and integrates them into a coherent framework. While taking the reader through a theoretical journey of varying complexities, the book also illustrates the social, political and cultural significance of gastrospaces by surveying an array of examples from diverse historical and geographical contexts. It then draws on John Rawls's political philosophy to show that gastrospaces are sites of justice and injustice, and complements this analysis by developing an ontological model for gastrospaces that facilitates a systematic analysis of their social, political and cultural significance. The book ends with a toolbox for the study of gastrospaces that different stakeholders may apply to their respective contexts of intervention. This book will appeal to philosophers, political scientists, food scholars, geographers, and any interested in the intersection between food and space. By focusing on a wide range of real-world topics related to gastrospaces, such as socially restrictive dress codes, child-free restaurants, speakeasies, racist bans, and gendered kitchen designs, the book will also be of interest to non-academic stakeholders such as urban planners, policymakers, designers, managers, and consumers.

Gastrospaces
Gastrospaces

Author: Matteo Bonotti

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781003455578

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This book explores the moral and political significance of gastrospaces: the spaces where we eat. It adopts an innovative approach, combining analytic political philosophy and analytic ontology, to lay down the theoretical foundations for a multi- and inter-disciplinary research agenda on the complex interconnections between food and space. Social science and humanities scholars have studied the ties between food consumption and space from multiple angles. This book sets up a different and more foundational approach, which engages with these bodies of work and integrates them into a coherent framework. While taking the reader through a theoretical journey of varying complexities, the book also illustrates the social, political and cultural significance of gastrospaces by surveying an array of examples from diverse historical and geographical contexts. It then draws on John Rawls's political philosophy to show that gastrospaces are sites of justice and injustice, and complements this analysis by developing an ontological model for gastrospaces that facilitates a systematic analysis of their social, political and cultural significance. The book ends with a toolbox for the study of gastrospaces that different stakeholders may apply to their respective contexts of intervention. This book will appeal to philosophers, political scientists, food scholars, geographers, and any interested in the intersection between food and space. By focusing on a wide range of real-world topics related to gastrospaces, such as socially restrictive dress codes, child-free restaurants, speakeasies, racist bans, and gendered kitchen designs, the book will also be of interest to non-academic stakeholders such as urban planners, policymakers, designers, managers, and consumers.

The Ontological Turn
The Ontological Turn

Author: Martin Holbraad

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1107103886

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This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

Foodies
Foodies

Author: Josee Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1317745000

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This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, indirectly maintaining and reproducing social inequality. While the first storyline insists that anybody can be a foodie, the second asks foodies to look in the mirror and think about their relative social and economic privilege. By simultaneously considering both of these stories, and studying how they operate in tension, a delicious sociology of food becomes available, perfect for teaching a broad range of cultural sociology courses.