Partiendo del hecho de la producción y reproducción social de los hábitos alimentarios, el autor analiza sociológicamente algunos efectos de la globalización socioeconómica sobre esa producción y reproducción. Particularmente, el artículo se centra en el influjo de la globalización sobre la pérdida de la soberanía alimentaria y la desterritorialización del consumo y cultivo de alimentos, así como en sus efectos sobre la alimentación como factor de construcción de la identidad y de diferenciación social. ABSTRACT By taking into account the fact of the food habit's social production and reproduction, the author studies sociologically some outcomes of present-day socio-economic globalization on the said production and reproduction. Particularly, the article focuses on both the impact of globalization on the so-called "losing of food sovereignty" and the deterritorialization of food consumption and production, as well as in its effects on feeding, which is understood as a factor of identity and social differentiation.

We examined the influence of gender identity on men's and women's perceptions of assuming the caregiver role to identify different coping strategies and the effects on caregiver health and quality of life. The study, performed in Andalusia, Spain, was based on a sociological analysis of the narratives produced during semistructured interviews with primary informal caregivers (16 men and 16 women) of different profiles. We observed a cultural assumption that women should assume the caregiver role and found that women shouldered the bulk of caregiving responsibilities and did not usually seek support. This might explain the high prevalence of chronic health disorders, stress, anxiety, depression, neglect of health, and social isolation we observed among women caregivers. Because the caregiver role was not socially imposed on men in our setting, men caregivers adopted a flexible attitude and tended to seek external support before their health and quality of life were seriously affected.

ResumenLos procesos de creciente periurbanización, característicos del mundo desarrollado actual, están suponiendo la progresiva expansión de modelos de ciudad desconcentrada, dispersa o difusa, lo que hace que cada vez sean más borrosas e imprecisas las fronteras físicas y sociales entre lo rural y lo urbano. En esta situación, se está experimentando un progresivo aumento de la importancia de las periferias urbanas y una mejora de la imagen de éstas, las cuales, de ser lugares de frecuente exclusión social y subdesarrollo durante la preponderancia de los modelos centralistas de ciudad, están pasando, en bastantes casos, a manifestar un significativo dinamismo socioeconómico. Este artículo, además de analizar los cambios y los nuevos modelos de ciudad derivados de los presentes procesos de periurbanización, trata de identificar algunas de las causas y consecuencias de tales procesos. Causas y consecuencias que se consideran, tanto a nivel general, como a través de la exposición de parte de los resultados de una investigación empírica llevada a cabo en diferentes áreas periurbanas de la Unión Europea. El trabajo concluye con unas reflexiones que se pretende sean útiles para encarar la generalidad de los retos que se les plantean a las actuales políticas reguladoras de las áreas de urbanización dispersa, en tanto que los procesos de periurbanización que dan lugar a las mismas, aunque originados o propulsados por causas o fuerzas diversas, suelen tener consecuencias socioeconómicas, ambientales y urbanísticas similares. Palabras clave: periurbanización, ciudad dispersa, presión urbana, fronteras entre mundo rural y mundo urbano. Abstract. Periurbanization processes and changes in the models of city. An european cases study on their causes and consequencesThe processes of growing periurbanization, which are so characteristic in the current developed world, are giving rise to a progressive spread of diffuse or disperse models of city, what, in turn, is bringing with it that the geographic and social borders between the rural and urban ambits are more and more blurred and vague. In this situation, the urban peripheries are undergoing an increasing relevance, at the same time that their image is improving. These peripheries, from being traditionally places of frequent social exclusion and underdevelopment when the centralist models of city were preponderant, are nowadays showing often a significant socio-economic dynamism. The article, apart from analysing the changes and new models of city coming with the current periurbanization processes, attempts to identify some of the causes and consequences of such processes. Causes and consequences that are considered, both, from a general viewpoint and by presenting some of the results of an empirical research carried out in different periurban areas from the European Union. While being fuelled by diverse causes, periurbanization entails similar socio-economic, urban and environmental outcomes in all the analysed areas. So, the author concludes by reflecting on some of the com...

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The objective of this study was to examine collective memory reproduction of the Nakba (the Catastrophe) among Palestinian refugee youth. The collective memory reproduction of the Nakba was evaluated using an index containing 27 items developed by the researchers, which was administered to three-hundred-and-seventy-four participants in refugee camps in the West Bank. The findings revealed that Palestinian refugee youth preserved a strong collective memory of the Nakba. The statistics revealed that gender, parents' educational level, exposure to violence perpetrated by the Israelis, and grade point average (GPA), were significant predictors of collective memory reproduction of the Nakba. Traumatic experiences are not being erased, as older refugees may die, but the youth will never forget. As these refugees continue to be deprived of the right to return to the territory where their ancestors had lived until they were violently expelled from the area, the collective memory reproduction of the Nakba grows stronger. The implications of the findings for practice are discussed in the study report.