Monica Truninger
Biographic Data
| ID | 186921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Truninger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Truninger |
| SIGNATURE | TRUNINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4251-2261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research
The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when considering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and climate) theoretically approach the meso…
Assessing learning about food safety using Personal Meaning Maps
Objective: According to the World Health Organisation’s estimates, food contamination is linked to 23 million cases of illness and 5,000 deaths per year in Europe. While changes in food production and distribution play an important role in managing contamination risk, foodborne illnesses can originate in food-handling practices at home. This study aimed to assess how a food safety education initiative in which students learned about food safety r…
Promoting plant-based eating in meat-centric meal contexts
Objective: Shifting from meat-centric to plant-rich diets may help to enable healthier and more sustainable food systems. Here we present the results of a 1-week intervention to promote plant-based eating in a meat-centric food context (i.e. canteen). Design: The intervention included environmental restructuring strategies (e.g. promotional materials and menu redevelopment) and improvements to the offer of plant-based meals. The evaluation (sales…
How to enable healthier and more sustainable food practices in collective meal contexts
Collective meal contexts such as restaurants, cafeterias and canteens can help accelerate transitions to healthier and more sustainable diets. However, evidence from intervention studies on these contexts lacks integration. This scoping review aimed to map determinants of dietary change in collective meal contexts across multiple settings, interventions, target groups, and target behaviors. The review provided two main outcomes: (i) identifying i…
Insights into parents' and teachers' support for policies promoting increased plant-based eating in schools
Global environmental and public health challenges related to current food systems call for large-scale shifts towards increasingly plant-based diets, especially in Western meat-centric societies. School meal systems can play a role in these changes due to their widespread prevalence and multi-sectoral impact. However, there is a lack of evidence about how adults involved in the school meals system perceive school-based pro-environmental food poli…
Educating Young Consumers about Food Hygiene and Safety with SafeConsume
The SafeConsume educational suite was designed to improve knowledge about undertaking safer food practices and avoiding food-borne illnesses among young people. The resources were designed to support educators and members of the community who teach young people (aged 11–18 years) and include lesson plans and supporting teacher training resources. To assess the efficacy and suitability of the resources, an evaluation of the central lesson, the ‘us…
Enabling sustainable food transitions in schools
Purpose Recent reviews and reports have highlighted the need for integrated, context-specific efforts to enable sustainable food transitions. This study aimed to identify pathways to promote healthier and more environmentally friendly food practices in school contexts, with a focus on increased plant-based eating. Design/methodology/approach The study used a systemic approach with data collected from relevant stakeholders in an EU country (Portug…
Sélection thématique de livres
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School meals as a resource for low-income families in three European countries
In the context of successive global crises and rising household food insecurity in wealthy European countries there is renewed attention to the role of school meals as a welfare intervention. However, little is known about the extent to which school meals are a resource for low-income families living in different contexts. Drawing on a mixed methods study of food in low-income families in three European countries, this paper adopts a realist onto…
Tasting as a social practice
Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers the relationships between cultural analyses of taste and the embodied activity of tasting. As part of a wider project on the multiple ontologies of 'freshness', the paper conceptualises taste as an emergent effect of tasting practices. Drawing on evidence from a series of 'tasting events' (where research participants were recorded shopping, cooking and eating a meal with friends and …
The ontological politics of freshness
Freshness is a key feature of contemporary food systems, however its industrial production as a quality of food carries adverse consequences. Accordingly, this paper approaches freshness as a matter of concern. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across sites of food production and consumption in the UK and Portugal, we identify four enactments of freshness. The analysis zooms in on the specific case of plastic food packaging and uses these enactments…
Edible zombis
Doing research on fishery commodities in Portugal led us to an enigma: for a dead fish to befresco(fresh) it must be alive. This paradox manifests at a popular, commercial, and legal level. It denotes the interruption of the difference between being dead and being alive in the commodity form. In Portugal, we suggest, the commercialization ofpeixefresco(fresh fish) is based on the production and consumption of edible 'zombis': seafood corpses tech…
Young People’s Views on Food Hygiene and Food Safety
Foodborne diseases are a global burden, are preventable, and young people are a key population for behaviour change as they gain autonomy. This study aimed to explore young people’s needs across several European countries in relation to learning about and implementing food hygiene and food safety. Qualitative focus groups and interviews were conducted in rural and city regions across England, France, Hungary and Portugal. Data were collected to a…
A typology of urban speciality shops selling rural provenance food products – a contribution from Portugal
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and typify the characteristics and diverse features of urban speciality stores selling rural provenance food, taking the case of three cities in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on hierarchical cluster analysis, performed upon data collected from a survey to 113 shops, located in Aveiro ( n = 15), Lisbon ( n = 56) and Porto ( n = 42). Findings The study identified three clus…
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area
Different representations of the 'countryside' coexist in contemporary Portugal, from idyllic depictions to portrayals of emptiness and loneliness. Rural contexts close to urban areas are assumed to have informal support networks that can alleviate poverty and exclusion when institutional support fails. The incidence and intensity of food poverty are presumed to be lessened by proximity to food production sites and land ownership. In this article…
Researching children’s food practices in contexts of deprivation
The paper develops a critical reflection upon the methodological and ethical challenges of researching the food practices of low-income families with children. We draw on data and fieldwork experience in Portugal, within a recently completed European research project. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences and views about the place of food in their lives, drawing on sociological approaches to childhood that conceptualize children as…
Consumidores e agricultura orgânica em Portugal
Nos últimos anos do corrente século, o sector da agricultura orgânica tem visto as suas áreas de produção, cotas de mercado e número de consumidores a crescer. Na União Europeia, o enquadramento legal deste modo de produção data do início dos anos 90 do século XX, mas ao longo dos anos esta legislação tem sido alvo de várias alterações. Apesar de um enquadramento legal apertado surgem, por vezes, situações de fraude ou controvérsia em torno da fi…
Reducing meat consumption and following plant-based diets
School Meals and Food Poverty
This paper addresses the importance of school meals in balancing food budgets and diets among 45 low‐income families in Portugal. Drawing on interviews with both parents and children (aged 11–15 years) we found that children’s views on the quality of school meals affect their willingness to eat at school and heighten parental concerns with health, food and resources. For parents, school meals are crucial to ensure children’s dietary variety and b…
Consumption orientations may support (or hinder) transitions to more plant-based diets
The multiple ontologies of freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri‐food sectors
This paper adopts a material‐semiotic approach to explore the multiple ontologies of “freshness” as a quality of food. The analysis is based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, with particular emphasis on fish, poultry, and fruit and vegetables. Using evidence from archival research, ethnographic observation and interviews with food businesses (including major retailers and their suppliers) plus qualitative household‐level research with consumer…
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Poverty and food (in)security
The concept of food security has been the subject of various debates and reconfigurations over time. This chapter reviews the concept of food security and offer a brief historical account, concluding that there is a bias in the scientific literature towards production issues. It focuses upon poverty and food insecurity from a consumption perspective by addressing three prominent debates: the relationship between poverty, food insecurity and &s;ba…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
Paisagem, tecnologia e desenvolvimento local
The study of the local impacts of renewable energy has given little attention to less implemented technologies. This work seeks to bridge this gap through a case study on the photovoltaic plant in Amareleja, based on interviews with stakeholders and residents and documentation analysis. The plant has the distinction of being part of a local initiative for regional development based on renewable energy. However, although the deployment process fac…
Cooking with Bimby in a moment of recruitment
Every two minutes, one Bimby is sold somewhere in the world. This multi-food processor (also known as Thermomix) has gained wide sales success in many southern European countries and promises to revolutionize the way people cook, learn about cooking, coordinate and plan food practices at home. In a period where debates about cooking skills are paradoxical; some voices concerned with deskilling, while others enhance the visibility of cooking educa…
The multiple ontologies of freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri‐food sectors
This paper adopts a material‐semiotic approach to explore the multiple ontologies of “freshness” as a quality of food. The analysis is based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, with particular emphasis on fish, poultry, and fruit and vegetables. Using evidence from archival research, ethnographic observation and interviews with food businesses (including major retailers and their suppliers) plus qualitative household‐level research with consumer…
Consumption orientations may support (or hinder) transitions to more plant-based diets
Tasting as a social practice
Based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, this paper considers the relationships between cultural analyses of taste and the embodied activity of tasting. As part of a wider project on the multiple ontologies of 'freshness', the paper conceptualises taste as an emergent effect of tasting practices. Drawing on evidence from a series of 'tasting events' (where research participants were recorded shopping, cooking and eating a meal with friends and …
The ontological politics of freshness
Freshness is a key feature of contemporary food systems, however its industrial production as a quality of food carries adverse consequences. Accordingly, this paper approaches freshness as a matter of concern. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across sites of food production and consumption in the UK and Portugal, we identify four enactments of freshness. The analysis zooms in on the specific case of plastic food packaging and uses these enactments…
School meals as a resource for low-income families in three European countries
In the context of successive global crises and rising household food insecurity in wealthy European countries there is renewed attention to the role of school meals as a welfare intervention. However, little is known about the extent to which school meals are a resource for low-income families living in different contexts. Drawing on a mixed methods study of food in low-income families in three European countries, this paper adopts a realist onto…
Researching children’s food practices in contexts of deprivation
The paper develops a critical reflection upon the methodological and ethical challenges of researching the food practices of low-income families with children. We draw on data and fieldwork experience in Portugal, within a recently completed European research project. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences and views about the place of food in their lives, drawing on sociological approaches to childhood that conceptualize children as…
Climate adaptation, transitions, and socially innovative action-research approaches
Campos, I. S., F. M. Alves, J. Dinis, M. Truninger, A. Vizinho, and G. Penha-Lopes. 2016. Climate adaptation, transitions, and socially innovative action-research approaches. Ecology and Society 21(1):13.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08059-210113
As bases plurais da confiança alimentar nos produtos orgânicos
Os estudos sociais da confiança são extensos e multidisciplinares e partem, geralmente, de uma premissa que aporta a confiança nas relações sociais. O material empírico analisado neste artigo - trinta entrevistas em profundidade com consumidores de produtos orgânicos na cidade de Lisboa - dá conta de dois tipos de confiança ('desenraizada' e 'enraizada'), explorando um terceiro tipo: a confiança nos orgânicos através de 'testes' sensoriais cotidi…
The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research
The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when considering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and climate) theoretically approach the meso…
Insights into parents' and teachers' support for policies promoting increased plant-based eating in schools
Global environmental and public health challenges related to current food systems call for large-scale shifts towards increasingly plant-based diets, especially in Western meat-centric societies. School meal systems can play a role in these changes due to their widespread prevalence and multi-sectoral impact. However, there is a lack of evidence about how adults involved in the school meals system perceive school-based pro-environmental food poli…
Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption
The Taste Culture Reader – Experiencing Food and Drink
Testing the assertion that ‘local food is best’
Cooking with Bimby in a moment of recruitment
Every two minutes, one Bimby is sold somewhere in the world. This multi-food processor (also known as Thermomix) has gained wide sales success in many southern European countries and promises to revolutionize the way people cook, learn about cooking, coordinate and plan food practices at home. In a period where debates about cooking skills are paradoxical; some voices concerned with deskilling, while others enhance the visibility of cooking educa…
As bases plurais da confiança alimentar nos produtos orgânicos
Os estudos sociais da confiança são extensos e multidisciplinares e partem, geralmente, de uma premissa que aporta a confiança nas relações sociais. O material empírico analisado neste artigo - trinta entrevistas em profundidade com consumidores de produtos orgânicos na cidade de Lisboa - dá conta de dois tipos de confiança ('desenraizada' e 'enraizada'), explorando um terceiro tipo: a confiança nos orgânicos através de 'testes' sensoriais cotidi…
Ambiente, paisagem, património e economia
Nos últimos anos tem‐se assistido em Portugal ao crescimento exponencial do número de parques eólicos, respondendo às pressões políticas e económicas para atingir metas ambiciosas no que concerne à produção de energia através de fontes renováveis. A nível geral, este desenvolvimento tem‐se pautado por discursos consensuais – mitigação das alterações climáticas, diminuição da dependência energética face ao exterior –, mas ao nível local e situado …
Not in Anyone’s Backyard? Civil Society Attitudes towards Wind Power at the National and Local Levels in Portugal
This article attempts to explain the swift development of renewable energy, in particular wind energy, in Portugal, by assessing the socio-political, community and market acceptance of renewables. We examine, on the one hand, the institutional and policy framework, the approaches to planning, and the ownership of facilities, and, on the other hand, the attitudes of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations and citizens towards renewable energy…
Notas sobre as Representações Sociais e o Habitu
O presente artigo tenta fazer uma breve análise crítica de dois dos conceitos que mais utilização têm vindo a ter em Sociologia e em Psicologia Social: o conceito de habitus proposto por P. Bourdieu e o conceito de «representação social» proposto pro S. Moscovici. Tenta-se demonstrar como ambos são tentativas, disciplinarmente diferenciadas, de superação dos tradicionais pólos de discussão paradigmática em ciências sociais (objectivismo versus su…
Mobile phones, batteries and power consumption
School meals in Portugal
Drawing on a post-Foucauldian conceptual framework we look at the rationalities that inform the organization of the Portuguese school meals and the implementation of these rationalities to transform and normalize children eating habits. The empirical material is drawn from a thematic documental analysis of the school meals regulatory framework from the 1970s up until nowadays. The objectives are threefold: 1) to describe the continuities and disc…
Paisagem, tecnologia e desenvolvimento local
The study of the local impacts of renewable energy has given little attention to less implemented technologies. This work seeks to bridge this gap through a case study on the photovoltaic plant in Amareleja, based on interviews with stakeholders and residents and documentation analysis. The plant has the distinction of being part of a local initiative for regional development based on renewable energy. However, although the deployment process fac…
Climate adaptation, transitions, and socially innovative action-research approaches
Campos, I. S., F. M. Alves, J. Dinis, M. Truninger, A. Vizinho, and G. Penha-Lopes. 2016. Climate adaptation, transitions, and socially innovative action-research approaches. Ecology and Society 21(1):13.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08059-210113
Consumption research revisited
In Consumption the contributions are grouped under three headings, reflecting three interrelated aspects of consumption processes, bearing close affinity to the specific definition: acquisition, appropriation and appreciation . This chapter focuses on issues related to consumption, and especially to fascinate the more uninitiated reader, a graduate student perhaps with the burgeoning and intriguing field of consumption studies. It aims to de-ossi…
Poverty and food (in)security
The concept of food security has been the subject of various debates and reconfigurations over time. This chapter reviews the concept of food security and offer a brief historical account, concluding that there is a bias in the scientific literature towards production issues. It focuses upon poverty and food insecurity from a consumption perspective by addressing three prominent debates: the relationship between poverty, food insecurity and &s;ba…
Routledge Handbook on Consumption
The multiple ontologies of freshness in the UK and Portuguese agri‐food sectors
This paper adopts a material‐semiotic approach to explore the multiple ontologies of “freshness” as a quality of food. The analysis is based on fieldwork in the UK and Portugal, with particular emphasis on fish, poultry, and fruit and vegetables. Using evidence from archival research, ethnographic observation and interviews with food businesses (including major retailers and their suppliers) plus qualitative household‐level research with consumer…
Reducing meat consumption and following plant-based diets
School Meals and Food Poverty
This paper addresses the importance of school meals in balancing food budgets and diets among 45 low‐income families in Portugal. Drawing on interviews with both parents and children (aged 11–15 years) we found that children’s views on the quality of school meals affect their willingness to eat at school and heighten parental concerns with health, food and resources. For parents, school meals are crucial to ensure children’s dietary variety and b…
Consumption orientations may support (or hinder) transitions to more plant-based diets
Researching children’s food practices in contexts of deprivation
The paper develops a critical reflection upon the methodological and ethical challenges of researching the food practices of low-income families with children. We draw on data and fieldwork experience in Portugal, within a recently completed European research project. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences and views about the place of food in their lives, drawing on sociological approaches to childhood that conceptualize children as…
Consumidores e agricultura orgânica em Portugal
Nos últimos anos do corrente século, o sector da agricultura orgânica tem visto as suas áreas de produção, cotas de mercado e número de consumidores a crescer. Na União Europeia, o enquadramento legal deste modo de produção data do início dos anos 90 do século XX, mas ao longo dos anos esta legislação tem sido alvo de várias alterações. Apesar de um enquadramento legal apertado surgem, por vezes, situações de fraude ou controvérsia em torno da fi…
Young People’s Views on Food Hygiene and Food Safety
Foodborne diseases are a global burden, are preventable, and young people are a key population for behaviour change as they gain autonomy. This study aimed to explore young people’s needs across several European countries in relation to learning about and implementing food hygiene and food safety. Qualitative focus groups and interviews were conducted in rural and city regions across England, France, Hungary and Portugal. Data were collected to a…
A typology of urban speciality shops selling rural provenance food products – a contribution from Portugal
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and typify the characteristics and diverse features of urban speciality stores selling rural provenance food, taking the case of three cities in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on hierarchical cluster analysis, performed upon data collected from a survey to 113 shops, located in Aveiro ( n = 15), Lisbon ( n = 56) and Porto ( n = 42). Findings The study identified three clus…
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area
Different representations of the 'countryside' coexist in contemporary Portugal, from idyllic depictions to portrayals of emptiness and loneliness. Rural contexts close to urban areas are assumed to have informal support networks that can alleviate poverty and exclusion when institutional support fails. The incidence and intensity of food poverty are presumed to be lessened by proximity to food production sites and land ownership. In this article…
Educating Young Consumers about Food Hygiene and Safety with SafeConsume
The SafeConsume educational suite was designed to improve knowledge about undertaking safer food practices and avoiding food-borne illnesses among young people. The resources were designed to support educators and members of the community who teach young people (aged 11–18 years) and include lesson plans and supporting teacher training resources. To assess the efficacy and suitability of the resources, an evaluation of the central lesson, the ‘us…
Enabling sustainable food transitions in schools
Purpose Recent reviews and reports have highlighted the need for integrated, context-specific efforts to enable sustainable food transitions. This study aimed to identify pathways to promote healthier and more environmentally friendly food practices in school contexts, with a focus on increased plant-based eating. Design/methodology/approach The study used a systemic approach with data collected from relevant stakeholders in an EU country (Portug…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (11 works) · Social science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (8 works)