Avant-propos Andrea Baldini; OCR and minimal TEI markup August 3, 2018, 6:48 pm
Description
1Local food is at the core of many research and action programs both in philosophy and social science. A growing literature on the so-called locavorism suggests that local food can be the key for changing our food system in a more sustainable way, restoring community values, establishing a new and more conscious relationship to the environment.
2 The idea of locality, however, is often used to refer to a plurality of disparate entities and concepts, such as food miles, terroir, food identity, and place.
3 For this special issue we solicit papers that would put the notion of local food under a serious philosophical scrutiny and that would help to rethink conceptual and axiological questions pertaining to the relation between food, community, and place. Papers would be related, but not limited to, four main areas of research:
4 Ontology: what is local food? What relation links food and place? Can food identity change? What is a local community and how it relates to food?
5 Ethics: Is local food more sustainable than non-local ones? Is eating local a moral obligation? Does local food help in fostering social values, such as cohesion?
6 Politics: Should public health policy take into account local food? Should local food systems be politically privileged? How can overarching legislation on food safety and security coexist with very specific local identities, e.g. the regulation of fermentative processes?
7 Aesthetics: Does local food have a specific aesthetic value? How local food is related to pleasure? Do nostalgia and tradition play a role in the aesthetic appreciation of local food? What is an authentic food?
Instructions
8The submission language is English. See EAJP webpage (http://eajp.online/series-3397@guidelines) for the complete set of instructions. Submissions that do not comply with these instructions will not be taken into consideration. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process.
9 In this EAJP Special Issue, all articles must focus on at least one specific theoretical issue, and must present it in a way which is accessible also to readers who are not familiar with the language, or the specific tradition of the case. EAJP is looking for original, previously unpublished research articles that contribute to the development of the field, initiate a relevant scholarly debate, or take part in current discussions and issues within the field of the Philosophy of the City. Submissions of research articles should be no longer than around 8,000 words in total, including bibliography. An abstract of max. 500 words, a list of 5-7 keywords, and a short author bio of max. 500 words should be included.
Schedule
10Deadline for submitting papers via the EAJP online system: 30 August 2021
11Publication of the volume: Dec 2021
12For questions, please contact the editors: eajp@sdvigpress.org
13 EAJP is a "platinum" open access journal (no fees for either author or reader) published by sdvig press under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution license.