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Research Profile

Dr Mara Miele 


Recent Publications

Theme:  Food, Consumption and Alternative Food Networks

Evans, A. and Miele, M. (2011)Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (and not to matter) within food consumption practicesEnvironment and Planning D - Society and Space, advance online publication.

Miele, M. and Truninger, M. (forthcoming) Children, Food and Nature, Ashgate, Geography- Critical Food Studies Series.

Miele, M. (2011)The Taste of Happiness: Free Range Chicken’, Environment and Planning A, 43:9, 2076-2090.

Miele, M. and Evans, A. (2010)When Foods become Animals: Ruminations on Ethics and Responsibility in care-full spaces of consumption’, Ethics, Place and Environment, Vol.13, n.2 (171-190).

Morgan, S., Marsden, T., Miele, M. and Morley, A. (2010)Agricultural Multifunctionality and Farmers' Entrepreneurial Skills: A Study of Tuscan and Welsh Farmers’, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 26, n. 2, (116-129).

Cole, M., Miele, M., Hines, P. , Zokaei, K., Evans, B. and Jo Beale (2009)Animal Foods and Climate Change: Shadowing Eating Practices’, International Journal of Consumer Studies, Issue 33, n. 2 (162-167).

Tranter, R.B., R.M. Bennett, L. Costa, C. Cowan, G.C. Holt, P.J. Jones, M. Miele, M. Sottomayor, J. Vestergaard (2009)Consumers’ willingness-to-pay for organic conversion-grade food: Evidence from five EU countriesFood Policy, Issue 34, N. 3 (287–294).

Miele, M. (2008) 'CittàSlow: Producing Slowness against the Fast Life', Space and Polity, 12:1 (135-156).

Miele, M. and Ara, A. (2008) ‘Le scelte alimentari e il benessere animale: le preoccupazioni e le aspettative dei consumatori italiani’ AgriRegioniEuropa, N. 13, (1-7).

Miele, M. and Bock, B. (2007)Competing Discourses of Farm Animal Welfare and Agri-Food Restructuring’, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 15, N. 3, (1-7).

Miele, M. (2006) ‘Consumption Culture? The case of food’ in Cloke, P., Marsden, T. and Moony, P. The Handbook of Rural Studies, London: Sage (345-364).

Miele, M., Murdoch, J. and Roe, E. (2005) ‘Animals and ambivalence, governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector’ in Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. (eds.) Agricultural Governance, London: Rutledge (169-185)

Murdoch, J. and Miele, M. (2004) ‘A new aesthetic of food? Relational reflexivity in the ‘alternative’ food movement’ in Harvey, M., McMeekin, A. and Warde, A. (eds) Qualities of food, Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press (156-175).

Murdoch, J. and Miele, M. (2004) ‘Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective’ in Hughes, A. and Reimer, S. [eds] Geographies of Commodity Chains, London: Routledge (102-120). Reprinted in Amin, A. and Thrift, N. [eds] The Cultural Economy Reader. London: Blackwell (231-248).

Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. (2003) ‘Fast food/Slow food: standardising and differentiating cultures of food’ in R. Almas and G. Lawrence (eds) Globalisation, Localisation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Basingstoke: Ashgate (23-41).

Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. (2002)The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisine: Slow Food in Tuscany’ in Sociologia Ruralis vol. 42, n. 4 (312-328).

Miele, M. and Pinducciu, D. (2002) ‘Organic Farming in Tuscany’ in J.D. van der Ploeg, Banks, J., Living countrysides, The Netherlands: Kluwer (128-129).

Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. (2002) ‘Slow Food’ in G. Ritzer (ed.) McDonaldization: A Reader. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press (250-255).

Miele, M. (2001) ‘The Changing Passion of Food in Europe’ in Buller, H. and Hoggart, K. (eds) Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment  - Perspectives on European rural policy and planning - Volume 1 . Basingstoke: Ashgate (29-51).

Miele, M. and Pinducciu, D. (2001) ‘A Market for Nature: Linking the Production and Consumption of Organics in Tuscany’ in Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning n. 3, (149-162).

Miele, M. (1999)Short Circuits: New Trends in the Consumption of Food and the Changing Status of Meat’ in International Planning Studies, vol.4, n.3,  (373-387).

Murdoch, J. and Miele, M. (1999)Back to Nature: Changing ‘Worlds of Production’ in the Food Sector’, in Sociologia Ruralis vol. 39 n.3, (465-484).

 

Theme:  Public Understanding of Science, Science Technology and Society, Human Nonhuman animals relationships

Law, J. and Miele, M. (2011) ‘Animal Practices’ in Charles, N. and Carter, B. (eds.) Humans and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives, London: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 50-69.

Higgin, M., Evans, A., Miele, M. (2011) ‘A Good Kill’ in Charles, N. and Carter, B. (eds.) Humans and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives, London: Palgrave McMillan, pp 173-195.

Thompson, P., Appleby, M., Busch, L., Kalof, L., Miele, M., Norwood, B., Pajor, E. (2011) ‘Values and Public Acceptability Dimensions of Sustainable Egg Production’, Poultry Science, 90, pp. 2097-2109.

Miele, M., Buller, H., Veissier, I., Bock, B. and Spoolder, H. (2011) ‘Knowing Animals introduction and overview’, Animal Welfare, 20, pp.1-2.

Miele, M., Veissier, I., Evans, A. and Botreau, R. (2011) ‘Animal Welfare: Establishing a Dialogue between Science and Society’, Animal Welfare, Special Issue ‘Knowing Animals’, 20, pp. 103-117.

Miele, M. (2011)  ‘Obesity and Genomics in Italy’ in Korthals, M. (ed.)  Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities, Springer: The Netherlands, pp. 161-176.

Blokhuis, H., Veissier, I., Miele, M. and Jones, B. (2010) ‘The Welfare Quality® project and beyond: safeguarding farm animal well-being’ Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Sciences, 60: 3, (129-140).

Miele, M., Higgin, M. and Evans, A. (2010) ‘Dubbi dei consumatori, normativa e trasparenza del mercato’ in Cenci-Goga, B. and Fermani, A. G. (ed.)’ La Macellazione rituale nella produzione igienica della carne’,  Milan (IT): Point Veterinaire Italie, (69-81).

Blokhuis, H., Jones, B., Geers, R., Miele, M. and Veissier, I. (2003) ‘Measuring and Monitoring Animal Welfare: Transparency in the Product Quality Chain’, Animal Welfare 2003, 12, (445-455).

 

Other

Hendrickson, M. and Miele, M. (2009) ‘Changes in Agriculture and Food Production in NAE Since 1945’  in Beverly D. McIntyre, Hans R. Herren, Judi Wakhungu and Robert T. Watson (eds), Agriculture at a Crossroad, IAASTD North America and Europe, World Bank, Island Press: Washington DC (20-79).

Burt, R., Chataway, J., Cotter, J., Darcy-Vrillon, B., Debailleul, G., Grundy, A., Hendrickson, M., Hinga, K., Johnson, B., Kahiluoto, H., Madden, U., Miele, M., Navrátilová, M. and Schuler, T. (2009) ‘Environmental, Economic and Social Impacts of NAE Agriculture and AKST’ in Beverly D. McIntyre, Hans R. Herren, Judi Wakhungu and Robert T. Watson (eds) Agriculture at a Crossroad, IAASTD North America and Europe, World Bank, Island Press: Washington DC (80-115).

Miele, M. (2009) ‘Meat for a ritual’, NewScientist, Issue 2733, November 4th, Opinion.

Miele, M. (2006), ‘The Slow Food Movement’ European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) Newsletter, vol. 4, n. 3, (2-4).