The aim of this article is to revisit and analyze broadcasts of the Polish section of Radio free Europe concerning the Rapperswil Museum. the study draws on previously unused audio sources available on the Radio Liberty portal, focusing on the museum, its origins, history, collections, and its significance for Polish political and cultural émigré
communities. According to the intentions of its founder, Count Władysław Broel-Plater – a participant in the november Uprising – the institution was established to collect and preserve Polish historical heritage until Poland regained independence. In addition to the historical method, the study employs content analysis, media content analysis, qualitative analysis, and the descriptive method. the radio programs enabled audiences to learn about the complex fate of the museum’s collections, the losses incurred during the second World War and the Cold War, as well as the process of its revival in 1975.
Background
Using the system mapping approach, this study aimed to map the system of potential determinants of including alternative protein food (APF) into the daily diet across 13 European countries. We also aimed to identify key leverage points in the systems, which are determinants that are most interconnected with other determinants in the system. Similarities in leverage points and feedback loops found across the system maps were investigated.
Methods
Food system stakeholders (N = 166; including food producers, food processors, policy makers, nutritionists, consumers, etc.) participated in 17 system mapping workshops, conducted in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and Poland. Group model building methods were applied to develop 17 maps. Centrality indices were calculated, feedback loops were identified, and similarities between countries were explored.
Results
Key leverage points that were common across 6–8 maps included: consumer education and knowledge about APF, social norms, encouragement, advertising and influencers’ impact. Other common identified leverage points (present in 3–4 maps) were: health-related perceptions, curiosity/fear of novelty, national food culture, perceptions of ultra-processing, sustainability issues, and animal welfare issues. Overall, stakeholders emphasized consumers as central actors in the food system. Feedback loops identified in the study, revealed some common within-country pathways. For example, half of the feedback loops shown in the Italian maps included a potentially reinforcing upward spiral. Stakeholders perceived that higher APF product safety may facilitate advertising APF (e.g., as healthy), which in turn could increase consumers’ curiosity and/or beliefs that APF is healthy and sustainable. This was perceived as facilitating local development and job creation, food prices reduction, and further developments in food safety.
Conclusions
The findings offer new insights into the complexities of European food systems and may contribute to the broader uptake of APF. Identifying leverage points and feedback loops may inspire food system stakeholders to design novel interventions. For example, these interventions could involve influencers to familiarize consumers with APF, promote knowledge about healthiness and safety of APF, as well as link APF consumption with positive emotions and social approval.
This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the perversions of care that appear in moments when care is instrumentalized by neoliberal and fascist states to cover for financial cuts and repressive or controlling actions of security. It follows Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitical power in the context of the state of exception and the contemporary return to fascism, as well as the works of Giorgio Agamben. It offers a detailed analysis of the feminist theories of care expounded by Nancy Fraser and Joan Tronto, highlighting the need to strengthen our critique of the appropriations and abuses of care in its neoliberal, imperial, and fundamentalist perversions. While discussing social reproduction theory and other feminist revindications of care, the article argues in favor of combining the critique of exploitation with a critique of power, as suggested by Angela McRobbie, Sarai Aharoni, and Johanna Oksala. The Hiacynt police operations conducted in 1980s Poland to surveil and control gay men, as well as more contemporary examples of conservative perversions of care, are discussed to showcase the need for their feminist critique. This article’s main claim is that a feminist critique of perverted care is a necessary companion to any critique of today’s neoliberal state of exception, as the fascist doctrine re-emergences in different countries by means of right-wing fundamentalism.
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This paper presents a qualitative case study of packaging development with local winemakers in Lower Silesia, an emerging wine region in Poland. The study conceptualizes packaging as an integral component of local wine value chains—a coordination mechanismthat reduces information asymmetry, lowers consumer search and interpretation costs, and supports disintermediation in direct-to-consumer channels. Using a design-led participatory approach, the study documents a collaborative process involving designers and small-scale producers through workshops, interviews, and iterative prototyping. Five recurring communication strategies are identified—people-centered, place-based, cultural, character-based, and semantically open—interpreted as distinct signaling and coordination mechanisms within the value chain. These strategies enable producers to build credibility, communicate origin, and differentiate products despite structural constraints of small production scale and limited institutionalized reputation. Although systematic quantitative performance data are unavailable due to the predominance of direct sales, the study documents widespread adoption of packaging solutions and provides qualitative evidence of their role in market positioning. The paper contributesto wine economics by conceptualizing packaging as a mechanism of value coordination and adaptation in emerging wine regions.
