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NameMelanie DupuisTitleAssociate Professor
Phone831-459-5376Emailemdupuis@cats.ucsc.edu
Organization/BusinessUCSC SociologyOccupationResearcher/Extension/Educator
Web Sitehttp://sociology.ucsc.edu/dupuis.htmlWorkgroup(s)Organic Farming Workgroup
County(ies)Commodities
    
Expertise and Research InterestsOrganic Social Relations

Publications / ProductsForthcoming”Should we Go Home to Eat?: Toward a Reflexive Politics of Localism.” Journal of Rural Studies.

2002 “Knowing food and growing food: Beyond the production–consumption debate in the sociology of agriculture.” Goodman D.; DuPuis E.M. Sociologia Ruralis 42(1): 5-22(18).

2002 Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink. New York Unversity Press. This book integrates cultural studies and political economy approaches to examine the rise of milk drinking in the United States.

2001 “The Body and the Country: a Political Ecology of Consumption.” In Mark Gottdeiner, (ed.) New Forms of Consumption. Rowan and Littlefield.

2000 “Not in my Body: bGH and the Rise of Organic Milk,” in Agriculture and Human Values (special issue edited by David Goodman).

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

"Introduction" (co-authored with Peter Vandergeest) In DuPuis and Vandergeest (eds.) Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).

"In the Name of Nature: Ecology, Marginality and Land Use Planning During the New Deal." In DuPuis and Vandergeest (eds.)Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).

1993 "Sub-National State Institutions and the Organization of Agricultural Resource Use: The Case of the Dairy Industry." Rural Sociology 58:440-460.