@inbook{desoucey_2023, edition={10th}, title={Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food}, ISBN={9781324044086}, booktitle={Readings for Sociology}, publisher={Norton}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2023} }
 @inbook{roberts_desoucey_2023, title={Tapping History: Crafting Identity through Retrojection in the North Carolina Triangle Craft Beer Scene}, ISBN={9781610757881 9781682262238}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.455903.9}, DOI={10.2307/jj.455903.9}, booktitle={Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer}, publisher={University of Arkansas Press}, author={Roberts, Nathan and DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Harvey, D.C. and Jones, E. and Chapman, N.G.Editors}, year={2023}, month={Mar}, pages={101–116} }
 @article{desoucey_waggoner_2022, title={Another Person’s Peril: Peanut Allergy, Risk Perceptions, and Responsible Sociality}, volume={87}, ISSN={0003-1224 1939-8271}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00031224211067773}, DOI={10.1177/00031224211067773}, abstractNote={This article examines perceptions of health risk when some individuals within a shared space are in heightened danger but anyone, including unaffected others, can be a vector of risk. Using the case of peanut allergy and drawing on qualitative content analysis of the public comments submitted in response to an unsuccessful 2010 U.S. Department of Transportation proposal to prohibit peanuts on airplanes, we analyze contention over the boundaries of responsibility for mitigating exposure to risk. We find three key dimensions of proximity to risk (material, social, and situational) characterizing ardent claims both for and against policy enactment. These proximity concerns underlay commenters’ sensemaking about fear, trust, rights, moral obligations, and liberty in the act of sharing space with others, while allowing them to stake positions on what we call “responsible sociality”—an ethic of discernible empathy for proximate others and of consideration for public benefit in social and communal settings. We conclude by discussing the insights our case affords several other areas of scholarship attentive to the intractable yet timely question of “for whom do we care?”}, number={1}, journal={American Sociological Review}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Waggoner, Miranda R.}, year={2022}, month={Jan}, pages={50–79} }
 @article{bascuñan-wiley_desoucey_fine_2022, title={Convivial Quarantines: Cultivating Co-presence at a Distance}, volume={45}, ISSN={0162-0436 1573-7837}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09512-8}, DOI={10.1007/s11133-022-09512-8}, abstractNote={Sociology's focus on sociality and co-presence has long oriented studies of commensality-the social dimension of eating together. This literature commonly prioritizes face-to-face interactions and takes physical proximity for granted. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 largely halted in-person gatherings and altered everyday foodways. Consequently, many people turned to digital commensality, cooking and eating together through video-call technology such as Zoom and FaceTime. We explore the implications of these new foodways and ask: has digital commensality helped cultivate co-presence amidst pandemic-induced physical separation? If so, how? To address these questions, we analyze two forms of qualitative data collected by the first author: interviews with individuals who cooked and ate together at a distance since March 2020 and digital ethnography during different groups' online food events (e.g., happy hours, dinners, holiday gatherings, and birthday celebrations). Digital commensality helps foster a sense of co-presence and social connectedness at a distance. Specifically, participants use three temporally oriented strategies to create or maintain co-presence: they draw on pre-pandemic pasts and reinvent culinary traditions to meet new circumstances; they creatively adapt novel digital foodways through online dining; and they actively imagine post-pandemic futures where physically proximate commensality is again possible.}, number={3}, journal={Qualitative Sociology}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Bascuñan-Wiley, Nicholas and DeSoucey, Michaela and Fine, Gary Alan}, year={2022}, month={Jul}, pages={371–392} }
 @article{hamrick_desoucey_bariola_2022, title={Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco}, volume={9}, ISSN={0034-3404 1360-0591}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2115027}, DOI={10.1080/00343404.2022.2115027}, journal={Regional Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Hamrick, Danny and DeSoucey, Michaela and Bariola, Nino}, year={2022}, month={Sep}, pages={1–12} }
 @article{desoucey_2022, title={How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism}, volume={51}, ISSN={0094-3061 1939-8638}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00943061221129662ii}, DOI={10.1177/00943061221129662ii}, abstractNote={ing with men’s violence surrounding specific issues or specific kinds of violence. One chapter summarizes interview data on men’s understanding of guns and gun violence related to the larger issues explored in the book. A central argument that draws a thread throughout the book is the notion that men’s violence can be best understood as compensatory gendered enactments on the part of men who feel out of control in one way or another. Scholarship on guns and gun violence broadly supports this claim. And Sumerau’s analysis might be of use particularly to scholars studying prospective gun ownership, specifically examining the role that gender and gendered ideals play in shaping prospective gun owners’ attitudes toward guns. A separate chapter deals explicitly with men’s sexual violence. This chapter was among the shorter chapters in the book, went into less detail, and engaged less data than some of the other chapters. The chapter also dealt with the topic in what seemed to be an intentionally broad way. Sumerau begins summarizing her findings relative to men’s understandings of heterosexuality and how masculinity shapes their understandings of sexual relations and interactions with women. But later, she documents the ways this is connected with cisgender, heterosexual men’s gender violence against women more generally. And subsequently, she deals with data concerning violence against LGBT individuals. This was a vitally important chapter, but the breadth of issues covered made me wish there were more on each of these topics. The final substantive chapter in the book examines the issue of violence relative to social movements, specifically MeToo and BlackLivesMatter. In this chapter Sumerau was specifically interested in documenting the ways the men in her study reacted to these movements asking for change in the existing gender, sexual, and racial hierarchies and structures of society. Sadly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the men in her study shared patterned responses on these issues that Sumerau summarizes as framing these movements as threatening, both to them personally, but also to masculinity more generically. Violent Manhood is a book about how men are socialized into violence and about the role violence plays in their socialization into manhood. It is an important book, and I hope it is one that is widely read, taught, and engaged. While her sample is of young, collegiate, white, heterosexual, cisgender men, I imagine many of Sumerau’s discoveries and claims will be of use in studying different groups of men. It is also, despite the scope of the project, a brief book that could easily be used to engage undergraduate audiences because it is accessibly written and carefully argued.}, number={6}, journal={Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2022}, month={Oct}, pages={520–522} }
 @article{smith maguire_ocejo_desoucey_2022, title={Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness}, volume={9}, ISSN={1469-5405 1741-2900}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14695405221127349}, DOI={10.1177/14695405221127349}, abstractNote={The 21st century rise of culturally omnivorous tastes and classifications proffers a new dilemma for how markets create attachments and achieve trust for global consumers. Consumer entities must be both globally circulatable and offer a sense of localized authenticity without compromising either. Drawing from research on market trust and attachment, this article introduces the concept of mobile trust regimes to account for how sets of actors and repertoires attempt to address this tension. Through two case studies from gastronomic industries—food halls and natural wine—we investigate the devices of mobility used to facilitate the global circulation of the local. These include standardized aesthetic and affective templates communicated through physical décor, recurrent narratives, and social media curation. We argue that the concept of mobile trust regimes helps clarify two key issues in contemporary consumer culture: tensions between homogenization and heterogenization and how the symbolic value of omnivorous tastes becomes institutionalized and even banal.}, journal={Journal of Consumer Culture}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Smith Maguire, Jennifer and Ocejo, Richard E. and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2022}, month={Sep}, pages={146954052211273} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2022, place={Cham, Switzerland}, edition={2nd}, series={Food and Identity in a Globalising World}, title={Preface}, ISBN={9783031078347 9783031078330}, booktitle={Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics}, publisher={Palgrave McMillan}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Ranta, R. and Ichijo, A.Editors}, year={2022}, collection={Food and Identity in a Globalising World} }
 @article{pozner_desoucey_verhaal_sikavica_2022, title={Watered Down: Market Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer}, volume={43}, ISSN={["1741-3044"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102737361&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1177/0170840621993236}, abstractNote={Research in organizational theory suggests that category-spanning organizations typically suffer penalties in evaluations, as consumers downgrade producers they see as violating authenticity norms. We challenge this view by linking two heretofore separate insights: first, that categorical boundaries erode as categories become taken for granted and, second, that consumers in a given category tend to become more heterogeneous as their numbers increase. We argue that newer consumers employ diverse evaluative schemata and rely less on established conceptions of authenticity than do veterans, leading to more generous evaluations as the ranks of consumers grow. Using the canonical case of craft beer, we test the effect of audience growth on consumer evaluations, particularly when producers violate categorical authenticity norms. Our analysis of an original dataset of more than 1.2 million unique ratings of craft beers from a popular online forum finds both that overall beer ratings increase and that penalties to authenticity norm violations attenuate as the number of new reviewers participating in the evaluative process rises. These results refine our understanding of shifting demands for categorical purity, conceptions of authenticity, and consumer evaluations as functions of market growth.}, number={3}, journal={ORGANIZATION STUDIES}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Pozner, Jo-Ellen and DeSoucey, Michaela and Verhaal, J. Cameron and Sikavica, Katarina}, year={2022}, month={Mar}, pages={321–345} }
 @article{woolley_pozner_desoucey_2021, title={Raising the Bar: Values-Driven Niche Creation in U.S. Bean-to-Bar Chocolate}, volume={7}, ISSN={["2333-2077"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85133644563&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1287/stsc.2021.0147}, abstractNote={We examine how entrepreneurs might build a viable, values-driven niche. Extant templates for niche creation typically employed in moral markets depend on instrumentally rational logics that privilege economic ends such as profitability and efficiency. Entrepreneurs seeking to construct a nascent niche whose purpose and objectives include the amelioration of social ills, however, may find such templates inadequate. Using the emergence of the U.S. bean-to-bar chocolate niche, through which entrepreneurs attempt to address the social and environmental shortcomings of conventional chocolate production, we demonstrate that constructing an alternative model for niche creation is feasible. Most bean-to-bar entrepreneurs deliberately opted out of extant private regulation initiatives, developing instead alternative encompassing, values-driven sourcing and cooperative relationships, which we term collaborative governance. This is enacted throughout the niche by promoting shared values, best practices, and transparency and is supported by strategic meaning-making work to cultivate customers. Together, these three values-driven strategies form a novel template of niche creation based not on cognitive repositioning or exploiting exogenous change within existing structures and institutions, but on a reconceptualization of how markets might work to support the implementation of nonmarket goals. Based on our mixed-methods analysis, we find that, instead of hoping to accomplish nonmarket goals through established market structures, entrepreneurs built a niche centered on the achievement of specific social goals. Our findings suggest that to understand the strategies supporting emergent socially oriented markets, researchers must explore the intersections of values, entrepreneurial motivations, and operational complexities.}, number={1}, journal={STRATEGY SCIENCE}, author={Woolley, Jennifer L. and Pozner, Jo-Ellen and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2021}, month={Sep} }
 @article{desoucey_desoucey_2020, title={Bottle Revolution: The Emerging Importance of the Wine Industry in South Moravia}, url={https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/11/09/bottle-revolution-the-emerging-importance-of-the-wine-industry-in-south-moravia/}, journal={EuropeNow Online Journal}, publisher={Council for European Studies}, author={DeSoucey, Arielle and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2020} }
 @article{desoucey_2020, title={The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism}, volume={49}, ISSN={0094-3061 1939-8638}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306120963121l}, DOI={10.1177/0094306120963121l}, number={6}, journal={Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2020}, month={Nov}, pages={517–518} }
 @misc{desoucey_2019, title={Book Review: French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism}, volume={13}, ISSN={1749-9755 1749-9763}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749975519862200}, DOI={10.1177/1749975519862200}, abstractNote={emanating from ethnographic research on social media and semi-structured interviews, the author clearly and concisely reveals how the group readily communicate a range of emotions and, in doing so, dispels the myth of working-class young men as guarded or emotionally distant individuals. The book culminates in a short, yet engrossing conclusion, which authoritatively unites the key themes of the book. Roberts states that workingclass masculinity has been subjected to negative theorisations from the 1970s and 1980s that are no longer representative of contemporary masculinity. With that in mind, Roberts calls for a re-evaluation of social theory to accurately reflect how young working-class men have adapted to the stock of educational, employment, parental and emotional evolutions in recent decades to provide more inclusive forms of masculinity. While Roberts provides readers with a fascinating dataset and the application of relevant theories, the book stops short of providing its own detailed theorisation of contemporary working-class masculinity, instead highlighting the relevance of Inclusive Masculinity Theory. The theories presented within the book could have been strengthened by utilising the ‘epistemological fallacy’ of Furlong and Cartmel (1997) to better theorise the disjuncture between the educational and labour-market aspirations and the outcomes through Bourdieu’s theory of social class. Also, the strength of the book in terms of breadth occasionally becomes a slight weakness as more space is required to showcase the data and theory to its full. Overall, the book was a fascinating and deeply enjoyable read; it provides significant contributions to a number of areas within academia and sets a high bar for future writings on working-class masculinity.}, number={3}, journal={Cultural Sociology}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2019}, month={Sep}, pages={380–382} }
 @article{desoucey_elliott_schmutz_2019, title={Rationalized authenticity and the transnational spread of intangible cultural heritage}, volume={75}, ISSN={["1872-7514"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85056817804&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1016/j.poetic.2018.11.001}, abstractNote={The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted by UNESCO to enshrine and preserve exemplars of the intangible heritage of humanity – practices, traditions, and cultural expressions – on a global register. In our view, this convention highlights a tension between the valorization of cultural diversity on one hand and the universal relevance and value of masterpieces of intangible heritage to all humankind on the other. We introduce the term rationalized authenticity to refer to processes by which this tension is mitigated through simultaneous 1) fostering of a diversity of ways that heritage may be expressed or understood and 2) translation into rationalized forms that demonstrate the transnational relevance of cultural heritage. Based on a comparative analysis of three diverse examples of heritage on UNESCO’s list from outside the core of the cultural world system – tango from Argentina and Uruguay, acupuncture and moxibustion from China, and the Kodály concept from Hungary – we show how rationalized authenticity encourages the adoption of alternative definitions of cultural heritage and also facilitates the transnational spread and transformation of select masterpieces of intangible heritage.}, journal={POETICS}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Elliott, Michael A. and Schmutz, Vaughn}, year={2019}, month={Aug} }
 @article{desoucey_2016, title={At The Chef’s Table: Culinary Creativity in Elite Restaurants}, volume={45}, ISSN={0094-3061 1939-8638}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306116653953kk}, DOI={10.1177/0094306116653953kk}, abstractNote={participation as a progressive force and as a contributing factor to inequality. Francesca Polletta’s chapter on the relationship between deliberation and activism is a stand-out in this regard. And the chapters by Isaac William Martin and by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza are noteworthy for how they change the focus to an explanation of the social forces that produce the historical trajectories of participatory practices. In so doing they produce satisfying and convincing studies of their respective cases of deliberative assemblies in California and the diffusion of Brazil’s participatory budgeting. As I read the book, I could not help but connect the descriptions of ubiquitous participation to broader cultural beliefs about fairness—that we are all equal and we all have a voice and all our opinions are valid and matter. It seems to me that the increase in participatory governance opportunities both reflects and reinforces an increase in the salience of these cultural beliefs. While participation in governance is a deeply held and long-standing cultural practice, it is the extension in when, how, and who participates that is new. Despite this contemporary trope about participation, we can see in these chapters that the hopes for participatory potential are often falling short. This book is valuable not only for describing this problem, but for empirically and analytically specifying what happens along the way and why there is a disjuncture between aspirations and reality. I very much appreciated that the book roots its argument in empirical research, rather than leaving claims about participation at the level of political theory. I also appreciate the excellent job the final chapter does to identify main themes across the chapters. The book is incredibly timely and deserves attention for its quality of scholarship and for its subject matter. It is an example of how research can both be scholarly and have uses for actors outside of academia. It would make an excellent book for a graduate seminar, although I think it is probably too advanced for most undergraduates. Sociologists in political sociology and beyond will find the book important and useful for enriching their conceptual vocabulary for the study of inequality.}, number={4}, journal={Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2016}, month={Jun}, pages={469–471} }
 @misc{desoucey_2016, title={Contested Tastes}, ISBN={9780691154930 9781400882830}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154930.001.0001}, DOI={10.23943/princeton/9780691154930.001.0001}, abstractNote={Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, politicians, chefs, and foodies. This book takes the reader to farms, restaurants, protests, and political hearings in both the United States and France to reveal why people care so passionately about foie gras. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and materials from archives and the media on both sides of the Atlantic, the book offers a compelling look at the moral arguments and provocative actions of pro- and anti-foie gras forces. It combines personal stories with fair-minded analysis of the social contexts within which foie gras is loved and loathed. From the barns of rural southwest France and the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, to exclusive New York City kitchens and the government offices of Chicago, the book demonstrates that the debates over foie gras involve heated and controversial politics. The book draws attention to the cultural dynamics of markets, the multivocal nature of “gastropolitics,” and the complexities of what it means to identify as a “moral” eater in today's food world. Investigating the causes and consequences of the foie gras wars, the book illuminates the social significance of food and taste in the twenty-first century.}, publisher={Princeton University Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2016}, month={Jul} }
 @article{maxwell_desoucey_2016, title={Gastronomic cosmopolitanism: Supermarket products in France and the United Kingdom}, volume={56}, ISSN={["1872-7514"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84961830167&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1016/j.poetic.2016.03.001}, abstractNote={In this article, we explore whether contemporary European cosmopolitanism is a deep or superficial trend. We do so by examining prepared meals in mainstream French and United Kingdom (UK) supermarket chains. First, we ask to what extent are foreign cultural influences present in these grocery outlets? Then, we explore which foreign cultural influences are present and, finally, how they are presented in this mainstream market setting. Our results are mixed. We find evidence of significant cultural diversity in the offerings of both French and UK supermarket chains. Supermarkets in both countries offer sizeable percentages of products from foreign countries in and outside of Europe. In addition, most of these products are presented without exoticization, suggesting a level of comfort and familiarity with the foreign gastronomic products among consumers, and a promising indicator of robust cosmopolitanism. However, the range of foreign gastronomic influences, in both countries, is both limited and stratified. We argue that this partially reflects standardizing logics and trends of globalizing consumer markets. This suggests that everyday cosmopolitanism may continue to develop in Western Europe, but will likely involve an uneven set of cultural influences.}, journal={POETICS}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Maxwell, Rahsaan and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2016}, month={Jun}, pages={85–97} }
 @article{desoucey_demetry_2016, title={The dynamics of dining out in the 21st century: Insights from organizational theory}, volume={10}, ISSN={["1751-9020"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994372653&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/soc4.12417}, abstractNote={The world of restaurants—as organizations as well as indicators of social status and cultural tastes—has, thus far in the 21st century, become especially dynamic in the United States and elsewhere. Social scientists have begun to engage seriously with issues concerning germane shifts in the culinary profession and the emergence of new forms of cooking and dining out. For sociologists interested in consumption, organizations, and creative work, this offers a number of timely topics, such as restaurants' financing strategies and ownership models, the institutionalization of new culinary trends, the expanding roles of chefs, and the labor practices of upmarket restaurants. This article synthesizes recent scholarship on the modern culinary field in the United States, specifically examining three interrelated themes: tensions between concurrent demands for creativity and financial returns, new ways of catering to consumer desires for authenticity, and issues of inequality in professional kitchens. It concludes by discussing several issues facing the future of dining out, as forecast by field leaders themselves, which offer further opportunities for burgeoning sociological and organizational inquiry.}, number={11}, journal={SOCIOLOGY COMPASS}, publisher={Wiley}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Demetry, Daphne}, year={2016}, month={Nov}, pages={1014–1027} }
 @misc{desoucey_2015, title={Christel Lane: The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining}, volume={60}, ISSN={0001-8392 1930-3815}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001839215572126}, DOI={10.1177/0001839215572126}, number={3}, journal={Administrative Science Quarterly}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2015}, month={Jan}, pages={NP41–NP43} }
 @article{schleifer_desoucey_2015, title={WHAT YOUR CONSUMER WANTS Business-to-business advertising as a mechanism of market change}, volume={8}, ISSN={["1753-0369"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928774575&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1080/17530350.2013.861356}, abstractNote={With what mechanisms and cultural resources do market actors pursue change? Based on an analysis of business-to-business advertisements in two US food industry trade publications, we show the generative influence of social movements on perceived market opportunities. Building on recent scholarship on market-making, we find that market actors articulate and reshape critiques of their own industry by making claims about what consumers ostensibly want and about how their products can satisfy those desires. We find that business-to-business food ingredient advertisements selectively articulate precepts of the emergent ‘good food’ movement by urging manufacturers to develop healthy, natural, and ‘clean’ foods. While ‘good food’ advocates typically portray processed and packaged food as inherently unhealthy, suppliers and trade associations' advertisements transform this critique by claiming that products will be more marketable to consumers if they are made with ingredients designed to provide specific health benefits and to comply with federally mandated product labeling regulations. As such, we find that these business-to-business advertisements mediate between imagined demands and pragmatic constraints while serving as a conduit for the influence of social movements on industry practices and products.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Schleifer, David and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2015}, pages={218–234} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2014, place={Berlin Germany}, title={Ducking the Foie Gras Ban: Dinner and a Side of Politics in Chicago}, ISBN={9783643126887}, booktitle={Politische Mahlzeiten = Political meals}, publisher={LIT-Verlag}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Bendix, Regina and Barlösius EvaEditors}, year={2014} }
 @article{desoucey_2012, title={Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences}, volume={41}, ISSN={0094-3061 1939-8638}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306112438190qq}, DOI={10.1177/0094306112438190qq}, abstractNote={Periods of economic insecurity affect different age groups in different ways. Whether you call them generations or cohorts, life experiences framed by the unique intersection of age and history have proved a fascinating subject for social scientists. In their coming-of-age account of the group of birth cohorts some have dubbed Generation X, Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn provide a readable, theoretically embedded, and empirically supported account of how policy, economic conditions, and persistent inequality create currents that can lead us to different futures from those we imagined. Utilizing a longitudinal design and 14 to 15 years of data from the ‘‘Paths on Life’s Way’’ project, based in British Columbia, Canada, and the ‘‘Life Patterns’’ project, set in Victoria, Australia, the authors examine how these two sets of adolescents, who completed their secondary schooling in the late 1980s and early 1990s, manage decisions about postsecondary education, work, and relationships in a context of increasing economic insecurity, global competition, workplace restructuring, and persistent inequalities by class and gender. The similarities in the political, social, and economic institutions of Canada and Australia allow the authors to spotlight how expansions in post-secondary education were orchestrated, how the goal of expanding education opportunity was reflected in education achievement, and how these young adults tried to articulate their educational credentials and life goals with the changing work environment. The authors organize the material into five interrelated themes: reluctant change makers, an education generation, generating new patterns of family life, a generation in search of work/life balance, and a diverse generation. In unfolding these themes, they show us how, on the one hand, these young people wanted the same sorts of things we wanted at their age—financial security (but not necessarily wealth), good relationships, and happiness. But the circumstances they face are different—better in some ways, more difficult in others. Part of that difficulty stems from the diverse pathways available to young people, which may appear incomprehensible to those who argue that more choice is always better. Those trying to figure out how to get from here to there find that having ‘‘endless possibilities’’ is not necessarily a comfort, especially when we later discover that some of those routes are in disrepair, others are too crowded, and still others come with detours that may keep us from ever reaching our destinations. Rather, seeing some number of clearly articulated routes that lead to a specific outcome assures us that we will be able to reach our goals. The trend toward the individualization of risk that has been noted in both the academic and popular press appears here in various manifestations—for example, the anxiety felt over choosing the right major, finding more than a dead-end job, and paying off student loans. The other side of this trend is showing how the costs of social change are externalized, sometimes with unintended consequences. As families and students absorb the higher costs of post-secondary schooling, parents continue to house their graduates well into their 20s, graduates delay marriage and children until they are able to establish some financial foothold, while employers are able to hire college graduates to fill clerical jobs. When the costs of such widespread social change are shifted, those already in a position of disadvantage are often the most vulnerable. Despite the expansion of post-secondary education, existing patterns of inequality are reproduced as new generations are sorted into winners and losers. Those whose parents are college graduates manage the secondary to post-secondary transition more smoothly}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2012}, month={Mar}, pages={238–239} }
 @misc{desoucey_2012, title={Food}, DOI={10.1093/obo/9780199756384-0072}, abstractNote={Food studies as a distinct field within sociology has seen extensive interest and growth. Previously, studies of food production and consumption typically fell under the purview of research on health, agrarian studies, development sociology, agricultural economy, or social anthropology. Rural and natural resource sociologists especially have long emphasized the management and impacts of food production systems in their work. In classical tomes food was typically mentioned as an example of social classification or of social problems rather than a distinct object of study. Since the 1980s sociologists’ attention to how food strengthens social ties; marks social and cultural differences; and is integrated into social organizational forms, ranging from households to empires, has grown. Early-21st-century interest in food by both researchers and the larger public follows heightened awareness of the global character of markets and politics, concerns with health and safety, and the ways cooking and dining out have become fodder for media spectacle. Today sociologists of food display considerable diversity in their theoretical approaches, research methods, and empirical foci. Sociologists draw upon both classic and contemporary sociological theorists to study food’s production, distribution, and consumption as well as how food and eating are integrated into social institutions, systems, and networks. Topically, sociologists contribute to research on inequality and stratification, culture, family, markets, politics and power, identity, status, social movements, migration, labor and work, health, the environment, and globalization. Sociological work on food in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is characterized by two overlapping threads: food systems (derived in part from scholarship on agricultural production and applied extension as well as environmental, developmental, and rural sociology) and food politics, identity, and culture (which reveals social anthropological and cultural-historical undertones). Both are nested in the emerging interdisciplinary research field of food studies, which has gained greater institutional footholds at universities in Europe and Australia than in the United States and Canada (but this may be changing). Sociologists working across the two threads examine issues of food and inequality, trade, labor, power, capital, culture, and technological innovation. This article maps out social science research and theorizing on what we eat, how we produce and procure food, who benefits, with whom we eat, what we think about food, and how food fits with contemporary social life.}, journal={Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2012}, month={Nov} }
 @misc{desoucey_2012, title={Gastronationalism}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog226}, DOI={10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog226}, abstractNote={Abstract Gastronationalism is a new concept that describes the use of food production, distribution, and consumption to create and sustain the emotive power of national attachment. Furthermore, gastronationalism addresses the use and influence of nationalist sentiments in the production and marketing of food. From the standpoint of gastronationalism, food is a fundamental aspect of collective identity. As such, the concept is especially useful in the context of global and transnational markets, as it throws into sharp relief the political dynamics of connecting localized food cultures with nationalist projects (DeSoucey 2010).}, journal={The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization}, publisher={John Wiley & Sons, Ltd}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2012}, month={Feb} }
 @article{desoucey_2011, title={Building a Housewife’s Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century}, volume={40}, ISSN={0094-3061 1939-8638}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306110396847l}, DOI={10.1177/0094306110396847l}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2011}, month={Mar}, pages={167–169} }
 @article{cherry_ellis_desoucey_2011, title={Food for thought, thought for food: Consumption, Identity, and Ethnography}, volume={40}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79953290825&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1177/0891241610379122}, abstractNote={Movements associated with lifestyle and consumption politics have gained increasing visibility in society and in sociological research, but scholars’ methodological insights for studying these issues have lagged behind. How might the lifestyles and consumption practices of researchers themselves shape data collection, and how might these movements affect researchers? The authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences conducting fieldwork on three different consumption movements centered on food production. Building on feminist and symbolic interactionist methodological literature, they show how their own “consumption identities” affected their data collection, analyses, and written work. The authors also discuss how conducting research on consumption and lifestyle movements may also affect researchers’ own identities and practices. They conclude by discussing how their process of “collaborative reflexivity” brings new insight into feminist methodological concerns for reflexivity.}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Contemporary Ethnography}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Cherry, Elizabeth and Ellis, Colter and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2011}, pages={231–258} }
 @article{desoucey_2010, title={Gastronationalism: Food traditions and authenticity politics in the european union}, volume={75}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78049445386&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1177/0003122410372226}, abstractNote={By developing the concept of “gastronationalism,” this article challenges conceptions of the homogenizing forces of globalism. I analyze (1) the ways in which food production, distribution, and consumption can demarcate and sustain the emotive power of national attachment and (2) how nationalist sentiments, in turn, can shape the production and marketing of food. The multi-methodological analyses reveal how the construct of gastronationalism can help us better understand pan-national tensions in symbolic boundary politics—politics that protect certain foods and industries as representative of national cultural traditions. I first analyze the macro-level dimensions of market protections by examining the European Union’s program for origin-designation labels that delineates particular foods as nationally owned. The micro-level, empirical case—the politics surrounding foie gras in France—demonstrates how gastronationalism functions as a protectionist mechanism within lived experience. Foie gras is an especially relevant case because other parties within the pan-national system consider it morally objectionable. Contemporary food politics, beyond the insights it affords into symbolic boundary politics, speaks to several arenas of sociological interest, including markets, identity politics, authenticity and culture, and the complexities of globalization.}, number={3}, journal={American Sociological Review}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2010}, pages={432–455} }
 @misc{desoucey_schleifer_2010, title={Technique and Technology in the Kitchen: Comparing Resistance to Municipal Trans}, ISSN={1059-4337}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s1059-4337(2010)0000051010}, DOI={10.1108/s1059-4337(2010)0000051010}, abstractNote={This chapter addresses how small businesses resist city regulations by using material things, by making craft knowledge claims about material things, and by letting material things organize their political activity. Chefs successfully resisted a foie gras ban in Chicago, where political resistance shaped the production and use of material things. Bakers successfully resisted a trans fat ban in Philadelphia, where material properties of things structured political resistance. We bring together analytic tools from the sociology of culture and science and technology studies to demonstrate how materiality can be both an instigator and an instrument of legal and political resistance.}, journal={Special Issue Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation}, publisher={Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Schleifer, David}, year={2010}, month={Mar}, pages={185–218} }
 @article{desoucey_demetry_fine_2009, place={IT}, title={Comment on Josée Johnston and Shyon Baumann/2. The Foodie's Dilemma: Snobbery No More}, url={https://doi.org/10.2383/29567}, DOI={10.2383/29567}, number={1}, journal={Sociologica}, publisher={Società Editrice Il Mulino}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Demetry, Daphne and Fine, Gary Alan}, year={2009} }
 @inbook{desoucey_téchoueyres_2009, place={Oxford and New York}, title={Virtue and Valorization: ‘Local Food’ in the United States and France}, booktitle={The Globalization of Food}, publisher={Berg Publishers}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Téchoueyres, Isabelle}, editor={Inglis, David and Gimlin, DebraEditors}, year={2009}, pages={81–95} }
 @article{weber_heinze_desoucey_2008, title={Forage for thought: Mobilizing codes in the movement for grass-fed meat and dairy products}, volume={53}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-56849124141&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.2189/asqu.53.3.529}, abstractNote={This study illuminates how new markets emerge and how social movements can effect cultural change through market creation. We suggest that social movements can fuel solutions to three challenges in creating new market segments: entrepreneurial production, the creation of collective producer identities, and the establishment of regular exchange between producers and consumers. We use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s. Our analysis shows that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and that these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.}, number={3 SPEC. ISS.}, journal={Administrative Science Quarterly}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Weber, Klaus and Heinze, Kathryn L and DeSoucey, Michaela}, year={2008}, pages={529–567} }
 @article{desoucey_pozner_fields_dobransky_fine_2008, title={Memory and sacrifice: An embodied theory of Martyrdom}, volume={2}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-39749102292&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1177/1749975507086276}, abstractNote={We use a reputational approach to create a theory of martyrdom that synthesizes scholarship on the body politic, cultural symbols, and collective memory. The making of a martyr, a contested social process, depends on both the resources of the martyr's supporters and the cultural context into which the martyr's image is introduced. Our approach is well suited to analyzing how martyrs are used `on the ground' and given cultural and material utility. We highlight the attention paid to the conception and reception of the martyr's corporeal body, in particular, as a source of identity and meaning, giving emotional weight to social ideas about death and sacrifice. Control over martyrs' bodies derives from the cultural and political intricacies of reputational entrepreneurship, thus employing the body as a medium of culture. To examine this concept of embodied martyrdom, we examine the cases of Joan of Arc, John Brown, and Che Guevara.}, number={1}, journal={Cultural Sociology}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Pozner, Jo-Ellen and Fields, Corey and Dobransky, Kerry and Fine, Gary Alan}, year={2008}, pages={99–121} }
 @inproceedings{desoucey_fine_2008, title={Virtuous Food: Conscientious Production as Moral Imperative}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Oxford 2007 Symposium on Food & Cookery}, publisher={Prospect Books}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela and Fine, Gary Alan}, year={2008}, pages={93–102} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2007, place={Westport, CT}, title={Animal Rights}, booktitle={The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Allen, Gary and Albala, KennethEditors}, year={2007} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2007, place={Westport, CT}, title={Consumerism}, booktitle={The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Allen, Gary and Albala, KennethEditors}, year={2007} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2007, place={Westport, CT}, title={Farmers' Markets}, booktitle={The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Allen, Gary and Albala, KennethEditors}, year={2007} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2007, place={Westport, CT}, title={Organic Foods}, booktitle={The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Allen, Gary and Albala, KennethEditors}, year={2007} }
 @inbook{desoucey_2007, place={Westport, CT}, title={U.S. Department of Agriculture}, booktitle={The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={DeSoucey, Michaela}, editor={Allen, Gary and Albala, KennethEditors}, year={2007} }
 @book{anderson_desoucey_fields_yenkey_2006, edition={3rd}, title={Economic Sociology Syllabi Set}, publisher={American Sociological Association}, year={2006} }
 @article{hirsch_soucey_2006, title={Organizational Restructuring and its Consequences: Rhetorical and Structural}, volume={32}, ISSN={0360-0572 1545-2115}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123146}, DOI={10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123146}, abstractNote={In this review, we examine the idea of organizational restructuring as a conceptual tool and how it has been used to alter societal definitions and interpretations of employment. Although use of the term restructuring is relatively recent, the broad issue of changing employment conditions with which it is concerned has a long history, going back to the industrial revolution. Our main focus is a consideration of the causes and consequences of restructuring, in its more recent rhetorical and structural versions. In their pursuit of greater efficiencies, organizations adapt to the demands of increasingly global markets, and these adaptations are crucial components of what is popularly referred to as the new economy. Such developments are applauded in most economic theory, but sociologists examine both sides of their social impact, including the adverse effects and implications of such externalities as the social disruptions caused by downsizing and other organizational and corporate changes. These studies pr...}, number={1}, journal={Annual Review of Sociology}, publisher={Annual Reviews}, author={Hirsch, Paul M. and Soucey, Michaela De}, year={2006}, month={Aug}, pages={171–189} }
 @article{fine_de soucey_2005, title={Joking cultures: Humor themes as social regulation in group life}, volume={18}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-23844485265&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1515/humr.2005.18.1.1}, abstractNote={Abstract Every interacting social group develops, over time, a joking culture: a set of humorous references that are known to members of the group to which members can refer and that serve as the basis of further interaction. Joking, thus, has a historical, retrospective, and reflexive character. We argue that group joking is embedded, interactive, and referential, and these features give it power within the group context. Elements of the joking culture serve to smooth group interaction, share affiliation, separate the group from outsiders, and secure the compliance of group members through social control. To demonstrate these processes we rely upon two detailed ethnographic examples of continuing joking: one from mushroom collectors and the second from professional meteorologists.}, number={1}, journal={Humor}, author={Fine, G.A. and De Soucey, M.}, year={2005}, pages={1–22} }