This paper brings together consideration of food policies and practices and of post-socialist transition to raise neglected questions about means of nurturing more sustainable food systems in the developed world. The last three decades have been marked by the growing salience of food as a political and scholarly concern. While market-based alternative food systems have been heralded for their p...

In environmental ethics and landscape research, sacralisations of nature have commonly been considered in the context so-called religions or ethnic traditional societies. However, an analysis cultural history perception indicates that – contrary to classical theories modernisation secularisation remained widespread influential modern Western societies too. Some these represent (new) forms churc...

Despite the extensive literature on nexus between civil society and democratization in non-democratic regimes, most existing scholarship focuses politically oriented claim-making organizations. While these accounts provide useful insights, they appear to rely Western-centric understandings of society. Undoubtedly, little space exists regimes within which organizations may engage overt political...

W use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women across two distinct island societies in the Pacific: the patrilineal Palawan in the Philippines and the matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but we find evidence for culture-specific stereotypes. Like men in Western societi...

several investigations demonstrated that anxiety is the most common mental health disorder worldwide affected about one in 13 people. anxiety disorders are more commonly reported in western societies but it is also a main health problem in non-western countries as stress and anxiety levels have drastically increased over the last two decades. several wars in middle eastern countries in the last...

Observations among nomads suggest there is a strong ecological interdependence of diet and disease in tribal societies which favors survival of man. This relationship may be disrupted by changes in diet to conform to the highly productive technology of the West. Such changes may result in intensification of indigenous disease and in the transfer of disease characteristics of Western societies. ...