Scholars
E. Melanie DuPuis
Pace University
Based in
United States
North America
E. Melanie DuPuis is Professor of Environmental Studies and Science, Pace University and Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a BA in Anthropology from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University.
She is author of Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink, co-author of Alternative Food Politics: Knowledge, Practice and Politics, with David and Mike Goodman, and editor of two edited collections: Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution and Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. Her latest book, Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice, was published by UC Press in October of 2015. She is also co-editor, with Matthew Garcia and Don Mitchell, of Food Across Borders.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics AgriculturePublications
Books
Garcia, M., DuPuis, E. M. and Mitchell, D. 2017. “Food Across Borders.” Rutgers University Press.
DuPuis, E. M. 2015. “Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice.” University of California Press.
Goodman, D., DuPuis, E. M. & Goodman, M. 2011. “Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice and Politics.” Oxford, UK: Routledge.
DuPuis, E. M. (Ed.) 2004. “Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution.” New York: New York University Press.
DuPuis, E. M. 2002. “Nature’s Perfect Food.” New York: New York University Press.
DuPuis, E. M. & Vandergeest, P. (Eds.) 1996. “Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse.” Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Relevant Articles
DuPuis, E. M. 2021. “Learning from Emancipation: The Port Royal Experiment and Transition Theory.” Environmental and Planning A.
DuPuis, E. M. & Greenberg, M. 2019. “The Right to the Resilient City.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 9(3), 352–363
DuPuis, E. M. & Ball, T. 2013. How not what: Teaching sustainability as process. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 9(1).
DuPuis, E. M. & Gareau, B. 2009. “Neoliberal knowledge: The decline of technocracy and the weakening of the Montreal Protocol.” Social Science Quarterly, 89(5), 1212-1229.
DuPuis, E. M. & Gillon, S. 2009. “Alternative modes of governance: Organic as civic engagement.” Agriculture and Human Values, 26, 43-56.
Goodman, D., DuPuis, E. M., & Harrison, J. 2006. “Just Values or Just Value? Remaking the Local in Agrofood Studies.” In T. Marsden & J. Murdoch (Eds.), Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary AgriFood Sector. London: Elsevier.
Selected Book Chapters
Garcia, M., DuPuis, E. M. and Mitchell, D. (2017). Introduction. In Garcia, M., DuPuis, E. M. and Mitchell, D. Food Across Borders.
DuPuis, E. M., Harrison, J., & Goodman, D. (2011). Just Food? In J. Ageyman & A. Alkon (Eds.), Cultivating Food Justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
DuPuis, E. M. (2006). Landscapes of Desire? In P. Cloke, T. Marsden, & P. Mooney (Eds.), The Handbook of Rural Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Inc.
DuPuis, E. M. (2004). Introduction. In M. DuPuis (Ed.), Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution. New York: NYU Press.
DuPuis, E. M. (2004). Who Owns the Air? In M. DuPuis (Ed.), Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, New York, NYU Press.
DuPuis, E. M. & Vandergeest, P. (1996). Introduction. In M. DuPuis & P. Vandergeest (Eds.), Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
DuPuis, E. M. (1996). In the Name of Nature: Ecology, Marginality and Rural Land Use Planning During the New Deal. In E. M. DuPuis & P. Vandergeest (Eds.), Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.