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Gender, Care and Food Practices: A critical reflection on traditional roles between activism and resilience
No full textIn times of increasing insecurity, women often emerge as key figures in coping with crises through contexts of care. This article aims to critically reflect on how food and specific forms of food activism, such as Ollas Comunes, allow for a rethinking and re-evaluation of traditional gender roles related to food. These roles, which are deeply embedded in social and cultural narratives, constitute the foundation of shared social representations. Historically, women\u27s participation has been constrained to the private and domestic spheres, with a focus on matters related to household management and food preparation. Nevertheless, women\u27s social movements of care that focus on environmental, food, and basic needs issues are gaining prominence and creating spaces for activism and resistance. The literature indicates that women\u27s groups, frequently emerging from pre-existing informal networks, serve as vital resources during emergencies, providing a crucial service that is implicitly included in reconstruction policies. Their proactive involvement is based on a broad and deep knowledge of everyday realities and responds to the specific needs of the target community. These women-generated spaces, in which food serves as a central symbol and resource, allow women to respond to immediate needs, share ideas and knowledge, and promote community resilience. Despite significant challenges, including those related to legitimacy and social integration, these movements continue to develop and organise, becoming essential vehicles for social support and community resilience. This critical analysis demonstrates how food, through women\u27s activism, can serve as a potent instrument for empowerment for these social actors who are acknowledged in the public sphere. The innovative actions undertaken by these groups address not only basic needs but also promote the creation of material and social structures capable of redefining women\u27s gender roles in care and society. This, in turn, makes them more powerful and influential
Enabling an Inclusive Research Culture for Higher Education Professional Services Researchers
No full textUK higher education institutions employ staff on professional services contracts to fulfil a range of functions, separate to staff employed on academic contracts. There is a sector-wide movement to enhance research culture within higher education institutions, and within this, a growing recognition of the ways that professional services support the sector’s core missions of research and teaching. However, there remains little visibility of professional services staff who are actively researching – we call these individuals professional services researchers. This article reports on an exploratory project at a UK University that sought to enable a more inclusive research culture and environment for professional services researchers. It draws on data from semi-structured interviews with key informants within the University to understand the support and resources available to researchers, and an online questionnaire distributed to professional services staff.
We found that the concept of a professional services researcher was not well understood and propose a new conceptual framework to help define professional services researchers and support future research and practice in this space. The lack of conceptual awareness of professional services researchers was creating a research culture where professional services did not feel that their research was valued or recognised, and research support services were difficult to navigate. We make recommendations for how institutions can take practical steps to remove barriers for professional services researchers to make their own research culture more inclusive.
Funder Acknowledgement
This project was award funding by the University of Bristol Enhancing Research Cultures funding round, on behalf of Research England
The Creative Researcher: Mapping research culture through collage inquiry
No full textResearch culture is often framed as an external and abstract construct, shaped by institutional environments. This article takes a different perspective, arguing that research culture is actively constituted within research practices. Drawing on findings from The Public Laundry Project, a study funded through the Enhancing Research Culture Fund (ERCF) at the University of Warwick (2023–24), this article examines how researchers experience and navigate the cultural dimensions of their work. Using collage inquiry, a creative research method employed in professional development workshops, the study explores how researchers articulate and reflect on their research problems and the broader conditions that shape them. This article aims to contribute to research culture scholarship in two ways. First, it reframes research culture as enmeshed with research practices and researcher identity. This challenges dominant conceptualisations of research culture as primarily institutional or extra-individual. I argue that sustainable shifts in research culture cannot be achieved solely through institutional regulation or external frameworks. Rather, they require an attentiveness to the ways in which culture is lived, enacted, and negotiated within the everyday practices and identities of researchers themselves. Second, the article advances methodological innovation by demonstrating how collage inquiry functions both as an outward-facing research method for examining research culture and as an inward-facing tool for fostering critical reflection. By documenting the workshop process, this article highlights the potential of arts-based methods to surface the lived experiences of researchers, support interdisciplinary dialogue, and cultivate research environments that embrace uncertainty as a generative force in knowledge production. In doing so, it offers new perspectives on how research culture might be actively shaped through creative, reflexive, and deliberative approaches.
Funding Acknowledgement
This research was supported by The Enhancing Research Culture Fund, at the University of Warwick (funded through the Enhancing Research Culture funding from Research England) in 2023-24
‘One Year On’: Reflections on the International Research Culture Conference 2024 (IRCC24)
No full textBetween the first and second International Research Culture Conference (IRCC), there has been increasing advocacy for improved research culture, evidenced through collaborative initiatives, networks and events aimed at addressing various challenges within research environments.
This reflection follows the International Research Culture Conference 2024 (IRCC24) and highlights significant developments leading up to it, detailing expanded participation and thematic diversity. Key takeaways from the conference included the influence of the Research Excellence Framework - People Culture and Environment pilot, the importance of continued collaboration and increased need for efficiency in this space. It concludes with reflections on future direction, advocating for continued collaboration, increased evaluation, and learning with and from international perspectives to foster meaningful improvement in research culture
Creating an Inclusive Space for Research Conversations: A critical reflection
No full textWithin and across university departments, research seems to be much less discussed among colleagues – beyond small, existing coteries – during the conceptualisation and planning stages than showcased when already complete. Hierarchies, silos and lack of opportunities to engage may exclude individuals from potentially valuable research conversations, depending on status, contract type or access to existing research groups. Indeed, conversations about research across different, specialised interests seem to have decreased since the pandemic, hindering the development of new interdisciplinary relationships.
The project referred to in this critical reflection sought to foster inclusive conversations about envisioned or ongoing research through activities engaging contract researchers, professional services staff, research students and academic staff across levels. Using peer-coaching guidelines and question prompts, the project team, comprising members in diverse roles and career stages, co-created empathic, non-judgmental and non-hierarchical conversation formats and trialled these with 24 participants across different roles and career stages at a departmental event.
In this paper, we critically reflect on this attempt to create an innovative inclusive space for research conversations, explaining how the project team dealt with the challenges of silos and hierarchies and highlighting some of the tensions and difficulties involved in creating such a space. Reflective writing, discussions and survey questionnaires distributed during the project showed that intentional groupings and guided interactions did, to some extent at least, counter structural barriers in the service of an inclusive research culture, fostering mutual respect and support while encouraging research reflection.
Funding Acknowledgement
The project referenced in this paper and an ongoing Phase Two extension (October 2024–July 2025) with the same title – was funded by the University of Warwick Enhancing Research Culture fund
Conceptions of Freedom in the Regulation of Junk Food and Tobacco
No full textThis paper examines the regulatory disparities between the junk food and tobacco industries in the UK, focusing on the underlying conceptions of freedom that shape public policy. While both industries contribute significantly to public health challenges, tobacco is subject to far stricter regulations. Through an analysis of parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, the paper explores the application of positive and negative freedom in discussions of junk food and tobacco. I find that the presence of addiction in tobacco discourse is used to apply a positive conception of freedom, leading to more stringent regulations. Conversely, junk food discussions emphasise individual choice, aligning with a negative conception of freedom and resulting in softer regulatory approaches. This paper argues that these differing narratives on freedom contribute to the observed regulatory differences and suggests that emphasising the addictive nature of junk food could shift regulatory perspectives
Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future: Latin American Constitutionalism and Its Discontents - Interview With Professor César Landa
Full text linkProfessor César Landa, a renowned constitutional law scholar and distinguished public servant in Peru, is one of the unique figures who successfully bridges the worlds of academia and political practice. In addition to his academic position as a professor of constitutional law, he has held several key state offices, including President of the Peruvian Constitutional Court, ad hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Deputy Minister of Justice, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Drawing on this unique combination of experience, Professor Landa offers a rich and informed perspective on the democratic challenges facing Peru and Latin America more broadly. At a time when democratic erosion and the crisis of representative institutions have become global phenomena, his reflections on institutional fragility, constitutional resilience, and the potential for democratic renewal have both scholarly and practical significance. This interview aims to contribute to the broader conversation on constitutionalism in the region and to bring Professor Landa’s deep insights into the academic literature.
The Paradoxes of Latin American Arts et Research in their Quest for Autonomy
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to show that the power dynamics between the Global North and the Global South that can be observed in the artistic world can also be seen in the academic world in general, and in the Latin American literary studies in particular. Multiple paradoxes are analysed: A first aspect is the importance of the human capital flight from the Southern universities to the Northern universities, and the consequent co-optation of the criticisms against the hegemony of the Global North academia by that same academia. Another paradox is to be found in the fact that the Latin American social sciences field it is imbued with Continental Philosophy and with theoretical frameworks originated in the North. Those contradictions end up generating a very delicate situation for the intellectuals of the Global North who pretend to develop a critical analysis of the Latin American cultural world, without getting involved in any form of coloniality
The Subject in Question
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The Truth of Humanity: The Collective Political Subject in Sartre and Badiou - NINA POWER
Capitalism and the Non-Philosophical Subject - NICK SRNICEK
After the Subject: Meillassoux\u27s Ontology of \u27What May Be\u27 - PETËR GRATTON Between Emancipation and Domination: Habermasian Reflections on the Empowerment and Disempowerment of the Human Subject -SIMON SUSEN
Two Studies in Wittgenstein\u27s Subject - ANDREW STEPHENSON
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Response to Deleuze - FRANçOIS LARUELLE On the Sublime in Nietzsche\u27s Dawn - KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON
Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham - JAMES LUCHTE
Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection -GRAHAM PARKES
Reviews From Symbolism to Symbolic Logic: Alain Badiou, Being and Event - DAVID MILLE
Schelling: Powers of the Idea
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Antikritik - F.W.J. SCHELLINGOn the True Concept of Philosophy of Nature and the Correct Way of Solving its Problems - F.WJ. SCHELLING
Anthropological Schema - F.W.J. SCHELLING
The Life of the \u27ldea\u27: Hegel, Schelling, and Schopenhauer -TILOTTAMA RAJAN
Schelling\u27s Doctrine of Abstraction - DANIEL WHISTLER
\u27World\u27 in Middle Schelling: Why Nature Transcendentalises - IAIN HAMILTON GRANT
Das Gewüßte wird erzählt: Schelling on the Relationship between Art, Mythology, and Narrative - JASON WIRTH
Twilight of the Gods: Nancy and Schelling on the End of Myth and Politics - TYLER TRITTEN
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Spinoza\u27s Principle of Essential Derivation - DINO JAKUSI´CTime After Death: The Account of Fecundity in Levinas\u27s Totality and lnfinity - ROBERT KING
REVIEWS AND RESPONSES Adrian Johnston: Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume I - TIMOTHY M. HACKETT
ldealism and Emergence: Three questions for Adrian Johnston - BENJAMIN BERGER
Transcendentalism in Hegel\u27s wake: A Reply to Timothy M. Hackett and Benjamin Berger - ADRIAN JOHNSTO