Michelle Phillipov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Phillipov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillipov |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPOV M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2547-6286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How chefs talk about sustainable seafood
Sustainable seafood has emerged in recent years as an important issue for an increasing number of chefs who have emerged as prominent media and public voices on what constitutes “sustainability” with respect to fish and seafood. This article investigates how such chefs talk about and assess seafood sustainability via interviews with eight media-active Australian chefs for whom sustainable seafood is central to their personal and professional bran…
Regenerative Supermarkets for a New Era of Socio-Ecological Risk
Supermarkets increasingly dominate food systems. They are the primary influence on food supply chains that are failing to enable sustainable outcomes or deliver affordable food during acute or prolonged crises. In Australia, the dominant food retail model neither fully accounts for risk, thereby contributing to rising food insecurity, nor ensures socially or ecologically sustainable farming systems. The limitations of food systems dominated by mo…
The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production
Ideas of “craft” and “craftsmanship” have long been mobilized in middle-class Global North markets to promote the romanticized authenticity of artisanal goods, but what happens when these ideas are applied to industrially-made products? This article analyzes the artisanal imaginaries of the Australian Made Campaign to explore how the campaign taps into the growing cultural desirability of the handmade and the artisanal, and heightened concerns ab…
Consumer nationalism post-Covid
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Australian consumers to pay greater attention to how local supply chains intersect with global networks, but this emphasis on local provisioning was part of a larger pattern of growth in small-scale and local production. Presenting findings from a representative national survey, this article identifies who is willing to pay more for locally made goods and how motivations for buying locally differ by age, income and ge…
Agile producers and consumer-saviours
COVID-19's supply chain disruptions saw small-scale, artisanal food and craft producers experience surges in demand from consumers seeking locally made goods. This article analyses Australian news coverage promoting this ‘turn to the local’, with a focus on mainstream news outlets from March 2020 to February 2023. We identify two dominant narratives: the ‘producer pivot’ and the ‘consumer-saviour’. Using Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad’s (2018) wor…
What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods
Plant-based protein products have recently become more prominent on Australian supermarket shelves. However, despite rapidly increasing interest in meat-free or reduced-meat diets, limited research has explored responses toward these foods. Our research analyses Facebook comments (n = 1384) in response to two ABC News articles that covered the Australian launch of Naturli's "Minced" product in 2018. Our qualitative analysis generated seven main t…
Digital Food TV
Work placements in the media and creative industries
As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating a ‘smooth transition’ to the labour market;…
Media representations of seafood certification in Australia
I’d (still) rather be a cyborg’
This article identifies the rise of a series of tropes around authenticity, retreat and celebration of the artisanal as they manifest around the growing popularity of cooking and craft as activities that have become vehicles for a larger reimagining of ideal middle-class modes of living across much of the Global North. Through media examples of cooking and craft that valorise nostalgia and ‘dropping out’, and following McRobbie’s work on the crea…
In the wake of the supermarket ‘milk wars’
Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling
The mainstreaming of ethical consumption over the past two decades has attuned citizen-consumers to their power to shape food production practices through their consumption choices. To navigate the complexity inherent in contemporary food supply chains, ethical consumers often turn to certification and labelling schemes to identify which products to purchase. However, the existence of competing supply chain interests, coupled with the myriad diff…
Becoming food, eating media
The celebrification of farmers
‘Farmers are the real rock stars’, says American celebrity chef Mario Batali (2014, p. 9) in the opening line of his 10th and most recent cookbook, America Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes
Escaping to the country
Over the past decade in the West, television cooking shows have popularized interest in the provenance of food against a backdrop of public concern about the practices of industrial food production. This article explores two series that offer self-sufficiency as a solution to the problem of industrial agriculture. Escape to River Cottage and Gourmet Farmer each centre on a narrative of a city-dweller moving to the country to set up a smallholding…
The new politics of food
The provenance of food and the ethics of food production and consumption are increasingly a focus of media, particularly of television cooking shows. This is the result of complex dynamics of interaction between the media and food industries that are influencing consumer behaviours and business practices. This article offers a preliminary exploration of some of these relationships, focusing on Australian food television. Using two case studies th…
Kahn-Harris, K (2006) Extreme Metal
Kahn-Harris, K (2006) Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, Oxford: Berg
Helping Australia Grow’
Hamburgers of Devastation
Heavy metal, a genre once considered a dangerous and transgressive force in popular culture, is now increasingly constructed as a light-hearted source of fun, comedy and entertainment in a growing number of popular cultural forms. Nowhere is this clearer than in the recent phenomenon of the heavy metal cookbook, whereby domestic cookery is (sometimes seriously, sometimes comically) reimagined as part of a metal identity. Such cookbooks reveal not…
Introduction to the special issue
Mastering obesity
At the same time as overweight and obesity have come to dominate population health priorities in most western countries, food programming takes up more time on western television screens than ever before. This has resulted both in increased televisual representations of so-called ‘unhealthy’ foods (such as butter, cream and fatty red meats), and in greater public health scrutiny of the preparation and consumption of such foods. This article explo…
Generic Misery Music'? Emo and the Problem of Contemporary Youth Culture
This article examines the Australian newspaper coverage of the Emo youth cultural movement in relation to two incidents that contributed to its growing inclusion in mainstream media discourse: the February 2007 murder of 15-year-old Carly Ryan and the April 2007 suicides of 16-year-old friends Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier. The deaths of the three young women were frequently linked to their apparent involvement in the Emo movement, which was …
Haunted by the Spirit of '77
The contemporary punk scene(s) are today comprised of an enormous spectrum of musical, subcultural, institutional and political practices, many of them only tangentially linked to one another by hi
Haunted by the Spirit of '77
The contemporary punk scene(s) are today comprised of an enormous spectrum of musical, subcultural, institutional and political practices, many of them only tangentially linked to one another by hi
Helping Australia Grow’
I’d (still) rather be a cyborg’
This article identifies the rise of a series of tropes around authenticity, retreat and celebration of the artisanal as they manifest around the growing popularity of cooking and craft as activities that have become vehicles for a larger reimagining of ideal middle-class modes of living across much of the Global North. Through media examples of cooking and craft that valorise nostalgia and ‘dropping out’, and following McRobbie’s work on the crea…
Escaping to the country
Over the past decade in the West, television cooking shows have popularized interest in the provenance of food against a backdrop of public concern about the practices of industrial food production. This article explores two series that offer self-sufficiency as a solution to the problem of industrial agriculture. Escape to River Cottage and Gourmet Farmer each centre on a narrative of a city-dweller moving to the country to set up a smallholding…
The new politics of food
The provenance of food and the ethics of food production and consumption are increasingly a focus of media, particularly of television cooking shows. This is the result of complex dynamics of interaction between the media and food industries that are influencing consumer behaviours and business practices. This article offers a preliminary exploration of some of these relationships, focusing on Australian food television. Using two case studies th…
Work placements in the media and creative industries
As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating a ‘smooth transition’ to the labour market;…
Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling
The mainstreaming of ethical consumption over the past two decades has attuned citizen-consumers to their power to shape food production practices through their consumption choices. To navigate the complexity inherent in contemporary food supply chains, ethical consumers often turn to certification and labelling schemes to identify which products to purchase. However, the existence of competing supply chain interests, coupled with the myriad diff…
The celebrification of farmers
‘Farmers are the real rock stars’, says American celebrity chef Mario Batali (2014, p. 9) in the opening line of his 10th and most recent cookbook, America Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes
Mastering obesity
At the same time as overweight and obesity have come to dominate population health priorities in most western countries, food programming takes up more time on western television screens than ever before. This has resulted both in increased televisual representations of so-called ‘unhealthy’ foods (such as butter, cream and fatty red meats), and in greater public health scrutiny of the preparation and consumption of such foods. This article explo…
Agile producers and consumer-saviours
COVID-19's supply chain disruptions saw small-scale, artisanal food and craft producers experience surges in demand from consumers seeking locally made goods. This article analyses Australian news coverage promoting this ‘turn to the local’, with a focus on mainstream news outlets from March 2020 to February 2023. We identify two dominant narratives: the ‘producer pivot’ and the ‘consumer-saviour’. Using Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad’s (2018) wor…
In the wake of the supermarket ‘milk wars’
Becoming food, eating media
Introduction to the special issue
Haunted by the Spirit of '77
The contemporary punk scene(s) are today comprised of an enormous spectrum of musical, subcultural, institutional and political practices, many of them only tangentially linked to one another by hi
Generic Misery Music'? Emo and the Problem of Contemporary Youth Culture
This article examines the Australian newspaper coverage of the Emo youth cultural movement in relation to two incidents that contributed to its growing inclusion in mainstream media discourse: the February 2007 murder of 15-year-old Carly Ryan and the April 2007 suicides of 16-year-old friends Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier. The deaths of the three young women were frequently linked to their apparent involvement in the Emo movement, which was …
Mastering obesity
At the same time as overweight and obesity have come to dominate population health priorities in most western countries, food programming takes up more time on western television screens than ever before. This has resulted both in increased televisual representations of so-called ‘unhealthy’ foods (such as butter, cream and fatty red meats), and in greater public health scrutiny of the preparation and consumption of such foods. This article explo…
Hamburgers of Devastation
Heavy metal, a genre once considered a dangerous and transgressive force in popular culture, is now increasingly constructed as a light-hearted source of fun, comedy and entertainment in a growing number of popular cultural forms. Nowhere is this clearer than in the recent phenomenon of the heavy metal cookbook, whereby domestic cookery is (sometimes seriously, sometimes comically) reimagined as part of a metal identity. Such cookbooks reveal not…
Introduction to the special issue
Kahn-Harris, K (2006) Extreme Metal
Kahn-Harris, K (2006) Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, Oxford: Berg
Helping Australia Grow’
Escaping to the country
Over the past decade in the West, television cooking shows have popularized interest in the provenance of food against a backdrop of public concern about the practices of industrial food production. This article explores two series that offer self-sufficiency as a solution to the problem of industrial agriculture. Escape to River Cottage and Gourmet Farmer each centre on a narrative of a city-dweller moving to the country to set up a smallholding…
The new politics of food
The provenance of food and the ethics of food production and consumption are increasingly a focus of media, particularly of television cooking shows. This is the result of complex dynamics of interaction between the media and food industries that are influencing consumer behaviours and business practices. This article offers a preliminary exploration of some of these relationships, focusing on Australian food television. Using two case studies th…
Becoming food, eating media
The celebrification of farmers
‘Farmers are the real rock stars’, says American celebrity chef Mario Batali (2014, p. 9) in the opening line of his 10th and most recent cookbook, America Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes
Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling
The mainstreaming of ethical consumption over the past two decades has attuned citizen-consumers to their power to shape food production practices through their consumption choices. To navigate the complexity inherent in contemporary food supply chains, ethical consumers often turn to certification and labelling schemes to identify which products to purchase. However, the existence of competing supply chain interests, coupled with the myriad diff…
In the wake of the supermarket ‘milk wars’
Media representations of seafood certification in Australia
I’d (still) rather be a cyborg’
This article identifies the rise of a series of tropes around authenticity, retreat and celebration of the artisanal as they manifest around the growing popularity of cooking and craft as activities that have become vehicles for a larger reimagining of ideal middle-class modes of living across much of the Global North. Through media examples of cooking and craft that valorise nostalgia and ‘dropping out’, and following McRobbie’s work on the crea…
Work placements in the media and creative industries
As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating a ‘smooth transition’ to the labour market;…
Digital Food TV
What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods
Plant-based protein products have recently become more prominent on Australian supermarket shelves. However, despite rapidly increasing interest in meat-free or reduced-meat diets, limited research has explored responses toward these foods. Our research analyses Facebook comments (n = 1384) in response to two ABC News articles that covered the Australian launch of Naturli's "Minced" product in 2018. Our qualitative analysis generated seven main t…
The artisanal imaginaries of contemporary production
Ideas of “craft” and “craftsmanship” have long been mobilized in middle-class Global North markets to promote the romanticized authenticity of artisanal goods, but what happens when these ideas are applied to industrially-made products? This article analyzes the artisanal imaginaries of the Australian Made Campaign to explore how the campaign taps into the growing cultural desirability of the handmade and the artisanal, and heightened concerns ab…
Consumer nationalism post-Covid
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Australian consumers to pay greater attention to how local supply chains intersect with global networks, but this emphasis on local provisioning was part of a larger pattern of growth in small-scale and local production. Presenting findings from a representative national survey, this article identifies who is willing to pay more for locally made goods and how motivations for buying locally differ by age, income and ge…
Agile producers and consumer-saviours
COVID-19's supply chain disruptions saw small-scale, artisanal food and craft producers experience surges in demand from consumers seeking locally made goods. This article analyses Australian news coverage promoting this ‘turn to the local’, with a focus on mainstream news outlets from March 2020 to February 2023. We identify two dominant narratives: the ‘producer pivot’ and the ‘consumer-saviour’. Using Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad’s (2018) wor…
How chefs talk about sustainable seafood
Sustainable seafood has emerged in recent years as an important issue for an increasing number of chefs who have emerged as prominent media and public voices on what constitutes “sustainability” with respect to fish and seafood. This article investigates how such chefs talk about and assess seafood sustainability via interviews with eight media-active Australian chefs for whom sustainable seafood is central to their personal and professional bran…
Regenerative Supermarkets for a New Era of Socio-Ecological Risk
Supermarkets increasingly dominate food systems. They are the primary influence on food supply chains that are failing to enable sustainable outcomes or deliver affordable food during acute or prolonged crises. In Australia, the dominant food retail model neither fully accounts for risk, thereby contributing to rising food insecurity, nor ensures socially or ecologically sustainable farming systems. The limitations of food systems dominated by mo…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (8 works) · Advertising (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works)