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Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Foden, M., Head, E., Katz-Gerro, T., & Martens, L. (2021). Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK. Sociology, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211043679

Recent years have seen the emergence of calls for the transformation of food systems to make these more responsive to environmental, access and health challenges. Addressing how the UK food system may best meet these challenges, this article develop... Read More about Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK.

Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries (2021)
Journal Article
Didier, P., Nguyen-The, C., Martens, L., Foden, M., Dumitrascu, L., Octavian Mihalache, A., …Maitre, I. (2021). Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries. Food Control, 127, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108062

Nearly 40% foodborne outbreaks in the European Union are attributable to food practices in domestic homes that include handling and preparation of raw chicken. Hand washing is an important way to prevent cross-contamination with pathogens during chic... Read More about Washing hands and risk of cross-contamination during chicken preparation among domestic practitioners in five European countries.

Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems (2021)
Journal Article
Martens. (2021). Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(38), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00714-z

AbstractIncreasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, e... Read More about Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems.

Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers (2020)
Journal Article
Dumitrascu, L., Nicolau, A. I., Neagu, C., Didier, P., Maitre, I., Nguyen-The, C., …Borda, D. (2020). Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers. Food Control, 111, Article ARTN 107078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.107078

A transdisciplinary observational study, coupled with a web-based survey, was conducted to investigate refrigerated storage of food, in five European countries. The investigated consumer groups in this study were: young families with small children a... Read More about Time-temperature profiles and Listeria monocytogenes presence in refrigerators from households with vulnerable consumers.

Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment? (2019)
Journal Article
Martens. (2020). Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment?. Food Control, 111, Article 107077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.107077

Cleaning is a method at the disposal of domestic cooks for curtailing the dispersal of foodborne pathogens in the process of preparing food. The observation of visible dirt/soil ‘in the wrong place’ operates as one of the stimuli for action. This pap... Read More about Is visual motivation for cleaning surfaces in the kitchen consistent with a hygienically clean environment?.

Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities (2019)
Book Chapter
Martens. (2019). Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities. In What is Food?: Researching a topic with many meanings (11-30)

In 2015 and 2016, we took what is a rare opportunity in the social sciences to re-visit the study ‘Eating Out’, which was first conducted in 1995 (Warde and Martens, 2000). This study explored from the point of view of diners the increasingly popular... Read More about Revisiting ‘Eating Out’: Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities.

Childhood and Markets: Infants, Parents and the Business of Child Caring (2018)
Book
Martens. (2018). Childhood and Markets: Infants, Parents and the Business of Child Caring. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31503-8

This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanin... Read More about Childhood and Markets: Infants, Parents and the Business of Child Caring.

Understanding everyday kitchen life: Looking at performance, into performances and for practices (2017)
Book Chapter
Martens, L., & Scott, S. (2017). Understanding everyday kitchen life: Looking at performance, into performances and for practices. In Methodological Reflections on Practice Oriented Theories (177 - 191). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52897-7_12

The aim of this article is to contribute to methodological debate on how to research everyday life with a reflexive exploration of the ways of looking we developed to analyse video recordings of a 24/7 on-going performance of kitchen life. We bring i... Read More about Understanding everyday kitchen life: Looking at performance, into performances and for practices.

From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling (2016)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2016). From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), 447-462. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14758498374746

Global climate change poses challenging questions for how human beings should be living their lives in a more-than-human world. These questions are complex and multifaceted, and thus demand actions across a broad range of social and political fronts.... Read More about From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling.

Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability (2014)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2014). Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability. Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers, 15(3), 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/yc-10-2013-00409

Purpose This paper aims to examine, through a focus on the practice of child caring, how three qualities of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability, are nurtured by being brought together as rationales for product re-design, innov... Read More about Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability.

Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice (2013)
Journal Article
Martens, L., Halkier, B., & Pink, S. (2014). Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2014.853999

The articles in this special issue have one thing in common: all engage with the epistemological and methodological concerns of researching habits, routines and practices. However, in developing their papers, the authors bring to the fore a diverse r... Read More about Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice.

Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens) (2013)
Book
Martens, L. (2013). S. O'Donohoe, M. Hogg, P. Maclaran, L. Martens, & L. Stevens (Eds.). Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729

It takes more than a baby to make a mother, and mothers make more than babies. Bringing together a range of international studies, Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what m... Read More about Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens).

The making of mothers (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Donohoe, S., Hogg, M., Maclaran, P., Martens, L., & Stevens, L. (2013). The making of mothers. In Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729-1

In Korean author Kyung-sook Shin's best-selling novel, Please Look After Mom, when an elderly mother goes missing in Seoul, her family are desperate to find her, but to no avail. The book revolves around their search, with each chapter narrated by a... Read More about The making of mothers.