Human Values Society Research Articles

Problems of compatibility of specificities of human values system, business, state and society

Two forms of relations of the state economic authority with the economic agents areanalyzed: 1) paternalism and 2) free cooperation, the role of economic governance performed in relationto the state economic agents. The development trend of institutions that appear between the stateand individual private owners and begin to perform the function of economic mediator, carrier of localinterests, representative in state government bodies is analyzed. This trend is titled corporatism, and itsmodern variant is neo-corporatism. It is noted that the prevailing type of socio-economic thinking affectsthe system of social partnership. Three behavioral stereotypes are possible in the public mentality: a)in dominance-subordination relations, b) in the system of confrontation (power relation/confrontation)c) in cooperative relations (cooperation). While discussing t the problems, attention is payed on the followingissues: 1) formation of civil society and degree of development of corporatism; 2) tripartism andproblems of establishing social-labor relations; 3) ways to overcome the “economy of natural persons”;4) The concept of a new public agreement between the government and civil society. The question ofthe relationship between paternalism and private initiative is analyzed, the analysis of the results of thesocio-economic attitude research in Georgia is presented.

Scholars as allies in the struggle for food systems transformation

Molly Anderson’s 2020 Presidential Address for the Agriculture and Human Values Society, is a bold call to action that considers the scope and depth of the challenges facing global food systems. This call has particular relevance to scholars who are closely aligned with struggles for food justice and food sovereignty. In this discussion piece, I suggest additional nuance that builds and expands on Anderson’s three opportunities for “pushing beyond the boundaries”. First, collaborations for social and ecological change must be willing to expand predominant ideas to the varied ways that people engage with food systems (e.g., consider the role of harvesting non-domesticated foods and migrant/undocumented workers across the food chain). Second, interactions with global social movements demands grounding our work in the hearts and minds of individuals and communities while also addressing structural concerns at the levels of governance that enable and constrain food system functions. Third, food systems thinking and action must begin with our relationships to the land and its original inhabitants. The settler colonial project is integrally connected to the dominant food system that is premised on exploitation and control of land, water and people. As scholar allies, “pushing the boundaries” demands acknowledging ways that we are complicit in unjust systems and ways that we benefit from them; doing the personal work required for unlearning and relearning; being prepared to take actions that move towards more equitable and sustainable food systems; and, accepting the potential risks and material consequences that equity demands.

Pushing beyond boundaries as a pre-tenure rural sociologist who is not from around here

In her 2020 Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) presidential address, Molly Anderson outlined three ways to push beyond boundaries imposed on us and by us to work towards addressing global food system and societal problems. In this response essay, I draw on my experiences and my perspectives as a pre-tenure rural sociologist who is not from around here to highlight how I attempt to push beyond boundaries in my own work and to discuss challenges associated with the feasibility of some of Molly’s call. I also build on Molly’s call for boundary work including a broadening of international collaborations through increased engagement in cross-national comparative research, pivoting from interacting with global social movements to interacting with key stakeholders, and deepening of anti-discrimination work through the use of an intersectionality lens. Arguing that Molly’s call for action is bold but needed, I close my essay with a set of questions that I hope can contribute to larger discussions on how we can help one another push beyond boundaries to work towards more fair and sustainable food systems.

Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies

The idea for this special issue emerged from the enthusiastic response to a day-long series of sessions on feminist food studies that were held during the joint conference of the Canadian Association of Food Studies, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, in 2016, in Scarborough, Ontario. The sessions brought together feminist food scholars from across Canada and the U.S. to share their work and to collectively claim space within the conference program to address feminist perspectives in food studies. For us, and the many presenters and attendees at the sessions, the opportunity to gather together and savour more than the usual one or two conference sessions devoted to feminist perspectives was a long-awaited pleasure that did not disappoint. The presenters and audience members illuminated many of the issues, complexities, and perspectives that an explicitly feminist lens brings to food studies. The energy and excitement that infused the room as each presenter shared their work filled our plates that day.

The UVM Food Systems Summit Makes More Room at the Table [Guest editorial

First paragraphs: This special issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development highlights the best of the 2014 Food Systems Summit held at the University of Vermont. The Summit focused on local-level responses to globalization through the following themes: the impact of our geopolitical context on our food system, the biophysical constraints we face for food production globally, and the implications of behavior and culture for our food system. Using a format of refereed presentations and keynote speakers, and allowing for a dialogue between and among scholars, practitioners, policy makers, community activists and interested citizens, the Summit provided a space for lively pushing of the envelope by highlighting constraints and problems with our current food system and offering thoughtful, evidence-based solutions for improvement. Several presenters took the opportunity to go through the referee process. Five of those papers are included in this special issue, along with three commentaries written by the three keynote speakers. What is unique about the UVM Food Summit is the complex web of inquiry, discussion, openness, and questioning of the status quo by stakeholders in the food movement who don't often come together in the same venue. Conversing about one of the presentations or at the Taste of Vermont reception held on one evening of the Summit, one might find the Vermont secretary of agriculture interacting with a full or assistant professor, a staffer for U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy or Bernie Sanders, the executive director of Vermont's Farm to Plate initiative, and a dairy producer or small vegetable grower. In order to foster change that can improve working conditions of farm workers, provide tasty and healthy meals to schoolchildren, improve the economic conditions of farmers, and insure food access for now and into the future it is necessary for a wide range of actors to have a seat at the same table on an equal basis. That was and remains the goal of the annual UVM Food Systems Summit. What made the 2014 Summit even more meaningful was its place as a preconference event to the joint meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)—further expanding the audience across many disciplines as well as organizations....

Introduction to symposium on food sovereignty: expanding the analysis and application

Despite decades of international and national pledges and programs to dramatically reduce food insecurity and hunger, they remain urgent problems that affect people in almost every country of the world. Many public interest civil society organizations (CSOs), and even some countries, have adopted food sovereignty as a banner and coalescing framework for their efforts to achieve greater food security and justice for an expanding cohort of people who are engaged in food systems, yet disenfranchised from related policy making. Attention by academicians and public policy makers has followed in the wake of a dynamic and loosely organized international social movement supporting food sovereignty. We wanted to examine through this symposium how food sovereignty can and does contribute to increasing food security and how it compares in effectiveness with other approaches, particularly the right to adequate food. Most of the papers in this symposium were originally presented in three sessions at the 2008 joint conference of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the American Society for Food Studies in State College, Pennsylvania. We organized these sessions because it seemed to us that insufficient scholarly attention had been given to food sovereignty. We wanted to know what the concepts of food sovereignty and the right to adequate food could add to our collective understanding of food security and how it can be achieved, how their practice was contributing tangibly to solutions to hunger and food insecurity, and how scholars are addressing these questions. We begin with definitions, as many of the following papers do. We encouraged authors to be consistent in their use of terms to avoid confusion, but some of the authors stress different aspects of definitions and common usage. We prefer the definition of food security used by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization:

2008 AFHVS presidential address

The critical studies in the Sociology of Agriculture can be generally divided into four questions: Agrarian, Environmental, Food, and Emancipatory. While the four questions overlap and all address social justice concerns, there is a chronological sequence to the studies. In this presidential address presented at the joint meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food in Society held in June 2008 in New Orleans, LA, I provide an overview of the four questions and call for researchers and activists in agrifood studies to engage as public social scientists to bring about a more just and equitable agrifood system.

Announcing the Joint 2007 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of both organizations

Announcing the Joint 2007 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of both organizations

The Joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society

The Joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: The Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: The Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: the Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: the Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing The Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (Afhvs) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (Asfs) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: the Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing The Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (Afhvs) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (Asfs) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: the Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: The Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2006 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Place, Taste, and Sustenance: The Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture

Announcing the Joint 2005 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (Afhvs) and the Association for The Study of Food And Society (Asfs) Theme: Visualizing Food and Farm

Announcing the Joint 2005 Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (Afhvs) and the Association for The Study of Food And Society (Asfs) Theme: Visualizing Food and Farm

Announcing the joint 2005 annual meetings of the agriculture, food, and human values society (AFHVS) and the association for the study of food and society (ASFS) theme: visualizing food and farm

Announcing the joint 2005 annual meetings of the agriculture, food, and human values society (AFHVS) and the association for the study of food and society (ASFS) theme: visualizing food and farm

Announcing the Joint 2004 Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Theme: Agriculture to Culture: The Social Transformation of Food

Announcing the Joint 2004 Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Theme: Agriculture to Culture: The Social Transformation of Food

Announcing the Joint 2004 Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Theme: Agriculture to Culture: The Social Transformation of Food

Announcing the Joint 2004 Annual Meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Theme: Agriculture to Culture: The Social Transformation of Food

Health care ethics consultation: nature, goals, and competencies. A position paper from the Society for Health and Human Values-Society for Bioethics Consultation Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation.

Patients, families, and health care providers have a right to expect that ethics consultants can deal competently with the complex issues that they are asked to address. The Society for Health and Human Values-Society for Bioethics Consultation Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation explored core competencies and related issues in ethics consultation. This position paper summarizes the content of the resulting Task Force Report, which included nine general conclusions: 1) U.S. societal context makes "ethics facilitation" an appropriate approach to ethics consultation; 2) ethics facilitation requires certain core competencies; 3) core competencies can be acquired in various ways; 4) individual consultants, teams, or committees should have the core competencies for ethics consultation; 5) consult services should have policies that address access, patient notification, documentation, and case review; 6) abuse of power and conflicts of interest must be avoided; 7) ethics consultation must have institutional support; 8) evaluation of process, outcomes, and competencies is needed; and 9) certification of individuals and accreditation of programs are rejected.

Announcing the Joint 2001 annual meetings of the agriculture, food, and human values society (AFHVS) and the association for the study of food and society (ASFS) Thursday, June 7 – Sunday, June 10, 2001 humphrey institute for Public Affairs conference center, university of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Announcing the Joint 2001 annual meetings of the agriculture, food, and human values society (AFHVS) and the association for the study of food and society (ASFS) Thursday, June 7 – Sunday, June 10, 2001 humphrey institute for Public Affairs conference center, university of Minnesota, Twin Cities