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E. Melanie DuPuis

E. Melanie DuPuis   
E. Melanie DuPuis
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  emdupuis@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5376 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
(831) 459-3518 Fax
    Office:  College 8, 206
    Office Hours:  On Leave 09-10

Research Focus 
Political economy; consumption (particularly production-consumption relationships in food and agriculture); ideas of city/country/rurality, development; politics and power; environment; science and technology; social history (especially urban environmental history and feminist approaches to history); social theory; social justice and social change.

Education History 
B. A., Anthropology, Harvard University
M. S. and Ph.D., Development Sociology (minor: City and Regional Planning), Cornell University

Selected Publications 
2009 with Sean Gillon, "Alternative Modes of Governance: Organic as Civic Engagement," Agriculture and Human Values, forthcoming.

2008 with Brian Gareau, "Neoliberal Knowledge: The Decline of Technocracy and the Weakening of the Montreal Protocol," Social Science Quarterly 89(5): 1212-1229.

2008 with Daniel Block, "Sustainability and Scale: US Milk Market Orders as Relocalization Policy," Environmentand Planning A 40(8): forthcoming.

2007. "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America," Gastronomica, Vol. 7(4): 34-44.

2006 with Julie Guthman, "Embodying neoliberalism: Economy, Culture and the Politics of Fat," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 24(3): 427-448.

2006 with David Goodman and Jill Harrison, "Just Values or Just Value? Remaking the Local in Agrofood Studies," edited by Terry Marsden and Jonathan Murdoch, in Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary Agri-Food Sector, Elsevier, London.

2005 with David Goodman, "Should We Go Home to Eat?: Toward a Reflexive Politics of Localism," Journal of Rural Studies, 21: 359-371.

2004. Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, (editor). (New York: New York University Press).

2002. Nature's Perfect Food. (New York: New York University Press).

2002. "Knowing Food and Growing Food: Beyond the Production-Consumption Debate in the Sociology of Agriculture," co-authored with D. Goodman, Sociologia Ruralis 42(1):5-22.

2001. "Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60(1): 79-100. Special Thematic Issue: City and Country, An Interdisciplinary Collection.

2000. "Not in My Body: rBGH and the Rise of Organic Milk," Agriculture and Human Values 17(3): 285-295.

2000. "The Body and the Country: A Political Ecology of Consumption." In Mark Gottdiener (ed.), New Forms of Consumption. (Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield).

1996. Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse co-edited with P. Vandergeest (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).