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Aim of study: How are successful applications for quality labels for food and agricultural products written? This research aims to answer this question through the study of the applications for three quality labels within the EU Scheme for Agricultural and Foodstuffs: Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG). The research focuses in determining the topics and narratives that describe the link with the geographical area for the two former and the traditional character for the latter.Area of study: Europe.Material and methods: Using a Qualitative Data Analysis, the research analyses 132 products registered on the scheme between January 2016 and April 2019. The researcher categorized a total of 1,724 excerpts and studied the sections on the link with the geographical area for PDOs and PGIs, and the key elements establishing the product's traditional character for TSGs.Main results: Main results offer quantitative and qualitative outputs. They indicate that cultural and social issues make up the half of the story arguing about the products, and natural, space/place and time/history make up the second half in proportions that depend on the type of scheme. Topic and storytelling analyses revealed particular understandings of place, origins and traditions in narratives developing on agriculture, history and knowledge transference between generations. The applicants used socio-economic particularities, regional history, and environmental uniqueness to justify the special character of products.Research highlights: The results give practitioners, policymakers and institutions guidelines and recommendations about how to structure and write their applications for quality labels for food and agricultural products.

A nation needs its own fiction. It is for this reason that many countries have used fictional narratives to create a self-image. This article describes the role that fictional television series play in the process of nation building and proposes an analytical model that is based on quantitative and qualitative methods. It is argued that national identity is promoted through referential elements in fictional discourse, most of which are territorial and linguistic, although some are historical, institutional and cultural. It is also argued that the process unfolds in a politically controversial space of contestation where national culture is defined. The author studied the production of fiction on Catalan public television from 1994 to 2003, analysing content and documentation and carrying out in-depth interviews with scriptwriters and managers. The article points out how important cultural policy and production dynamics are in determining the kind of nation that is being represented.

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Some ecofeminist scholars have argued that being a feminist entails being a contextual vegan. Donna Haraway has opposed this position and received extensive critique. Yet no one, to my knowledge, has systematically studied how Haraway's theory can enrich ecofeminist vegan literature. To this end, I first establish the method of analysis, and/or framework, I use to read Haraway's work, what I call, interconstitutionality. Next, I delineate the limitations of Haraway's thinking insofar as it assumes a position of human dominion over animals. I then explore some aspects of Haraway's theory that can enrich ecofeminist vegan scholarship and provide insights to go beyond the limits of Haraway's corpus regarding: (1) the entanglements and embodied vulnerabilities that constitute human and non-human animals; (2) the agency of animals and the importance of curiosity and respect in leading just lives with other than human animals; (3) the ethical relevance of otherness, difference, and vulnerability at multiple scales: subject, community/herd, species, and cross-species (e.g., there are shared vulnerabilities between beings who are pregnant regardless of the species they belong to); and (4) the unavoidable violence that human existence entails. The text closes by affirming an ecofeminist non-anthropocentric vegan ontology and ethico-politics that aspires to overcome human dominion over animals.

Social movements often appeal to the politics of sight, meaning that if people knew about a given injustice, political transformation would follow. Jasmine English and Bernardo Zacka articulate two central premises of the politics of sight: "(1) exposing morally repugnant practices will make us see them, (2) seeing such practices will stop us from acquiescing to them." Considering the case of slaughterhouse workers, Timothy Pachirat and English and Zacka challenge the previous premises. This article complements their contributions by theorizing what I call Western conceptuality/language and the role this plays in forming our subjectivities not to recognize violence on the one hand, and to be sovereign masters over animals on the other. I conclude by discussing the political implications of these arguments for the politics of sight, including the role of concealment and exposure, and the conditions needed for humans to see animals in their full ethical weight.

El presente artículo relaciona el entramado teórico que fundamenta el código disciplinar de una materia escolar con la línea de investigación centrada en los recuerdos y la reestructuración de las concepciones docentes. Se pretende erigir con ello un marco integrado desde el que entender la incidencia de los rasgos tradicionales de los códigos disciplinares para contribuir a su erosión desde la formación (inicial) docente. De este modo, se ha procedido a la revisión de la literatura académica en torno a los dos campos mencionados, apuntando las conexiones existentes y sus posibles ajustes para lograr un cambio conceptual docente fundamentado. En este sentido, el estudio se apoya, principalmente, en el ámbito de la Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales, particularmente en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la Historia del Arte, resaltando las implicaciones investigativas del entramado teórico dibujado para favorecer una formación docente más crítica.

Imagine a future in which animals had fundamental rights to political participation and voting. What would our towns and cities look like? What kind of infrastructure would we need? And what kind of zoodemocracy would we, animals, co-author? As counterintuitive as it might seem, sometimes what is needed is not a minimal agenda. Animal rights theorists and the animal rights movement more generally have focused for decades on abolishing the farming of animals and on one-issue campaigns such as the abolition of the animal fur trade. These are noble and important pursuits, but what if the driving force to produce meaningful change did not reside in looking at the horrors of factory farming, but rather in envisaging beautiful and joyful futures? What if what we needed was to provide imaginaries full of possibilities, opened to create new relationships and communities; futures that we might long for and might be willing to strive for? In this speculative article, I imagine a realistic and fictional zoodemocracy after the devastating effects of climate change hit Earth and Earth's inhabitants with full force. The reader should imagine that the scenario portrayed in this article is situated in the 2180s and after many catastrophic events had happened. Location-wise, the article portrays different historical moments in which London, England, transitions from a human-centric polis and democracy to a zoopolis and zoodemocracy.

El consumidor actual, cada vez más preocupado por practicar una alimentación saludable y de calidad, demanda transparencia a las empresas de alimentación y les exige que respeten las condiciones en las que se crían los animales, concepto conocido como bienestar animal. Certificaciones como la de AENOR acreditan la buena alimentación, el buen alojamiento, la buena salud y el comportamiento apropiado del animal. El principal objetivo del estudio es analizar la comunicación del bienestar animal en espacios digitales como la página web y las redes sociales por parte de las principales marcas españolas de los subsectores de alimentación cárnico y lácteo. A partir de cuatro dimensiones -certificación, difusión, audiencia e interacción y estrategia creativa-, se realiza un análisis cuanti/cualitativo de las publicaciones realizadas por 21 marcas durante 2019 y el primer semestre de 2020. Los resultados avalan la presencia del bienestar animal como eje de comunicación en las estrategias creativas de la comunicación digital de las marcas de los subsectores cárnico y lácteo. Estos mensajes híbridos fusionan su intencionalidad comercial con el compromiso de la marca por dar respuesta a una tensión social y cultural y fomentan la interacción y la participación del usuario, característica intrínseca a la comunicación digital.

Castelló has a challenge: to consolidate an inclusive and accessible urban model. And a roadmap to achieve it: the Accessibility Plan. A transversal tool that transforms the strong social and political commitment into actions to make accessibility a central axis of the new design of the city model for the capital of La Plana. This roadmap proposes interventions in four sectors: urban environment, public facilities and buildings, transport, communication and information. Last year, the European Commission awarded Castelló the second prize in the Access City Award 2020, an event that recognizes the commitment and effort of the local governments that have worked the most to make their cities more accessible, inclusive and friendly to all citizens. ; Castelló tiene un reto: consolidar un modelo urbano inclusivo y accesible. Y una hoja de ruta para alcanzarlo: el Plan de Accesibilidad. Una herramienta transversal que transforma en acciones el fuerte compromiso social y político para convertir la accesibilidad en un eje central del nuevo diseño del modelo de ciudad para la capital de La Plana. Esta hoja de ruta propone intervenciones en cuatro sectores: ambiente urbano, instalaciones públicas y edificios, transporte y comunicación e información. La Comisión Europea otorgó el año pasado a Castelló el segundo premio en el Access City Award 2020, una cita que reconoce el compromiso y esfuerzo de los gobiernos locales que más han trabajado para hacer sus ciudades más accesibles, integradoras y amables para toda la ciudadanía.