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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

<jats:p> 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... Read More about Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK.

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

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Increasingly 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 cl... Read More about Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems.

State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England. Geoforum, 21 -31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.006

This article provides fresh insight on the political construction of markets through empirical analysis of community energy in the UK. It considers the diverse actors, understandings, processes and technologies enrolled in market creation, stabilisat... Read More about State, community community and the negotiated construction of energy markets: Community energy policy in England.

Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City (2015)
Journal Article
Parish, J. (2015). Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City. Anthropology Southern Africa, 68(3-4), 290-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2015.1100520

Among Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to an understanding... Read More about Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City.

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance (2015)
Journal Article
Catney. (2015). Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/0263774X15613357

The paper uses a case study of urban regeneration policy in Sheffield, UK, to explore local public entrepreneurship in a system of multi-level governance. Recent analyses of public entrepreneurs have directed attention to the macro-political structur... Read More about Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-Level governance.

Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles (2015)
Journal Article
Parish. (2015). Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(2), 101-120. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.2.009

While it has been extensively recorded how the West African occult economy allows for a metanarrative critique of modernity, this article analyzes a convergence between witchcraft discourses and the capitalist market, looking through the local lens o... Read More about Beyond Occult Economies: Akan spirits, New York Idols and Detroit automobiles.