Stefan Wahlen
Biographic Data
| ID | 73251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Wahlen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wahlen |
| SIGNATURE | WAHLEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4564-9412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Railway tracks for more democratic food systems: Insights from three Living Labs
The current agro-industrial food system faces environmental, social and economic challenges that require its transformation. Living Labs (LL) are emerging as an innovative approach to address these complex issues by providing a participatory and real-world approach for testing and developing solutions. This article explores the potential of LLs to contribute to the transformation towards a more democratic food system through the lens of Bruno Lat…
Embodiment as an uncharted territory of consumption: A roundtable
This roundtable takes an embodied approach to consumption, treating the body as an active medium through which consumption is organized, experienced and governed, rather than as a residual site of inscription. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, geography and digital media studies, the contributors discuss how sensory and affective bodily experiences influence everyday consumption in various contexts, from hunger and satiety to walking and ‘s…
Risk sharing or market shares? Mapping the organisational governance spectrum of community supported agriculture globally
The industrialised agricultural production system is associated with economic, social and environmental challenges. One alternative model is community supported agriculture (CSA), which involves a direct, long-term partnership between producers and consumers. Existing scientific literature identifies three main issues that the CSA movement seeks to address: the social recognition of food producers, their economic situation, and the environmental …
Women smallholders build an agroecology food system: The construction of empowerment and food sovereignty
Exploring transgender transition and food socialization
Food and eating habits contribute to gender differentiation. This article aims to empirically explore gender and food-related socialization of transgender individuals. We contemplate food and gender socialization of transgender individuals as an ongoing, productive process across the life course. To investigate food habits of transgender individuals four biographical interviews were conducted with trans persons. The empirical results show that tr…
Intersectionality and food consumption: A roundtable
Intersectionality is a concept that has received little attention in scholarship on consumption, despite its significant relevance. Marie Plessz and Stefan Wahlen organised a roundtable held at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Consumption research network (RN5) interim meeting, 2 September 2022, in Oslo. This is a summarised and edited transcript of this roundtable discussion. As such, it advances the conceptual lens of intersectionali…
Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) seeks to address injustices in the food system by supporting small-scale farmers applying agroecological practices through a long-term partnership: a community of members covers the cost of production and receives a share of the harvest throughout the season in return. Despite an orientation towards a more just and inclusive food system, the existing literature points towards a rather homogeneous membership i…
Exploring everyday food provisioning: The Teleoaffectivity of Meal Sharing
Sharing platforms gained importance in recent years. Little is known about whether and why novel means to digitally share meals are incorporated into people’s everyday portfolios of everyday food provisioning. The objective of this paper is accordingly to explore why digitally mediated meal sharing is incorporated (or not) into an array of everyday food provisioning practices. We use observations of and interviews with users of the Dutch platform…
Decolonising consumption, the hegemony of consumer culture and the politics of consumption: An interview with Roberta Sassatelli
sat down with Roberta to discuss consumer culture, the politics of consumption, authenticity, the sharing economy, food and the body, and the future of consumption studies
Consumption and society in the 21st century
We are delighted to present the inaugural issue of Consumption and Society. Our ambition for the journal is to invigorate and innovate the field of consumption studies and to renew the relevance of the study of consumption for the global social challenges of the 21st century. Consumption and Society will contribute to debates on contested aspects of consumption, such as environmental impacts, digitalisation, the shifting balance of collective ver…
(Un)sustainable consumption: A Contested, Compelling and Critical Field
Environmental activism and everyday life
The focus of this chapter is the interplay between everyday life and environmentalism. It begins with highlighting how a growing number of people, individually and collectively, have started to (re)consider everyday life as an important locus for environmental change. It then discusses how contemporary environmental activism tends to encompass people’s everyday practices, consumption habits, and leisure activities. The following section examines,…
Snacking practices in school: Othering and deviance in a health-normative context
Many public health interventions encourage healthy behaviours by strengthening health norms within schools or workplaces. Such health norms and health-normative contexts can also produce social hierarchies and forms of othering, including unhealthy ‘deviant’ behaviours. This article aims to better articulate how deviance is produced in a health normative school context. We approach the interplay between a health-oriented environment and deviance …
All practices are shared, but some more than others: Sharedness of social practices and time-use in food consumption
Even though we spend less and less time cooking and eating, food consumption remains a corner stone of the temporal organisation of everyday life. This paper is interested in how and to which extent food practices can be described as shared. We situate our investigation at the confluence of practice theories and the empirical analysis of time-use surveys. While qualitative research highlights the interrelations between many activities and agents …
Collaborative consumption and sharing economies
This chapter offers a critical reading of contemporary collaborative consumption (CC) and sharing economies (SE) literatures and attempt to delineate possible boundaries by referring to classical and contemporary theories and empirical research in these areas. It considers a historical perspective presented through economic collaboration and reciprocities in archaic community exchange. The chapter assesses the current state of CC and SE including…
All practices are shared, but some more than others: Sharedness of social practices and time-use in food consumption
Even though we spend less and less time cooking and eating, food consumption remains a corner stone of the temporal organisation of everyday life. This paper is interested in how and to which extent food practices can be described as shared. We situate our investigation at the confluence of practice theories and the empirical analysis of time-use surveys. While qualitative research highlights the interrelations between many activities and agents …
(Un)sustainable consumption: A Contested, Compelling and Critical Field
Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) seeks to address injustices in the food system by supporting small-scale farmers applying agroecological practices through a long-term partnership: a community of members covers the cost of production and receives a share of the harvest throughout the season in return. Despite an orientation towards a more just and inclusive food system, the existing literature points towards a rather homogeneous membership i…
Exploring everyday food provisioning: The Teleoaffectivity of Meal Sharing
Sharing platforms gained importance in recent years. Little is known about whether and why novel means to digitally share meals are incorporated into people’s everyday portfolios of everyday food provisioning. The objective of this paper is accordingly to explore why digitally mediated meal sharing is incorporated (or not) into an array of everyday food provisioning practices. We use observations of and interviews with users of the Dutch platform…
Consumption and society in the 21st century
We are delighted to present the inaugural issue of Consumption and Society. Our ambition for the journal is to invigorate and innovate the field of consumption studies and to renew the relevance of the study of consumption for the global social challenges of the 21st century. Consumption and Society will contribute to debates on contested aspects of consumption, such as environmental impacts, digitalisation, the shifting balance of collective ver…
Collaborative consumption and sharing economies
This chapter offers a critical reading of contemporary collaborative consumption (CC) and sharing economies (SE) literatures and attempt to delineate possible boundaries by referring to classical and contemporary theories and empirical research in these areas. It considers a historical perspective presented through economic collaboration and reciprocities in archaic community exchange. The chapter assesses the current state of CC and SE including…
Snacking practices in school: Othering and deviance in a health-normative context
Many public health interventions encourage healthy behaviours by strengthening health norms within schools or workplaces. Such health norms and health-normative contexts can also produce social hierarchies and forms of othering, including unhealthy ‘deviant’ behaviours. This article aims to better articulate how deviance is produced in a health normative school context. We approach the interplay between a health-oriented environment and deviance …
All practices are shared, but some more than others: Sharedness of social practices and time-use in food consumption
Even though we spend less and less time cooking and eating, food consumption remains a corner stone of the temporal organisation of everyday life. This paper is interested in how and to which extent food practices can be described as shared. We situate our investigation at the confluence of practice theories and the empirical analysis of time-use surveys. While qualitative research highlights the interrelations between many activities and agents …
Environmental activism and everyday life
The focus of this chapter is the interplay between everyday life and environmentalism. It begins with highlighting how a growing number of people, individually and collectively, have started to (re)consider everyday life as an important locus for environmental change. It then discusses how contemporary environmental activism tends to encompass people’s everyday practices, consumption habits, and leisure activities. The following section examines,…
Decolonising consumption, the hegemony of consumer culture and the politics of consumption: An interview with Roberta Sassatelli
sat down with Roberta to discuss consumer culture, the politics of consumption, authenticity, the sharing economy, food and the body, and the future of consumption studies
Consumption and society in the 21st century
We are delighted to present the inaugural issue of Consumption and Society. Our ambition for the journal is to invigorate and innovate the field of consumption studies and to renew the relevance of the study of consumption for the global social challenges of the 21st century. Consumption and Society will contribute to debates on contested aspects of consumption, such as environmental impacts, digitalisation, the shifting balance of collective ver…
(Un)sustainable consumption: A Contested, Compelling and Critical Field
Intersectionality and food consumption: A roundtable
Intersectionality is a concept that has received little attention in scholarship on consumption, despite its significant relevance. Marie Plessz and Stefan Wahlen organised a roundtable held at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Consumption research network (RN5) interim meeting, 2 September 2022, in Oslo. This is a summarised and edited transcript of this roundtable discussion. As such, it advances the conceptual lens of intersectionali…
Food justice in community supported agriculture – differentiating charitable and emancipatory social support actions
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) seeks to address injustices in the food system by supporting small-scale farmers applying agroecological practices through a long-term partnership: a community of members covers the cost of production and receives a share of the harvest throughout the season in return. Despite an orientation towards a more just and inclusive food system, the existing literature points towards a rather homogeneous membership i…
Exploring everyday food provisioning: The Teleoaffectivity of Meal Sharing
Sharing platforms gained importance in recent years. Little is known about whether and why novel means to digitally share meals are incorporated into people’s everyday portfolios of everyday food provisioning. The objective of this paper is accordingly to explore why digitally mediated meal sharing is incorporated (or not) into an array of everyday food provisioning practices. We use observations of and interviews with users of the Dutch platform…
Exploring transgender transition and food socialization
Food and eating habits contribute to gender differentiation. This article aims to empirically explore gender and food-related socialization of transgender individuals. We contemplate food and gender socialization of transgender individuals as an ongoing, productive process across the life course. To investigate food habits of transgender individuals four biographical interviews were conducted with trans persons. The empirical results show that tr…
Women smallholders build an agroecology food system: The construction of empowerment and food sovereignty
Railway tracks for more democratic food systems: Insights from three Living Labs
The current agro-industrial food system faces environmental, social and economic challenges that require its transformation. Living Labs (LL) are emerging as an innovative approach to address these complex issues by providing a participatory and real-world approach for testing and developing solutions. This article explores the potential of LLs to contribute to the transformation towards a more democratic food system through the lens of Bruno Lat…
Embodiment as an uncharted territory of consumption: A roundtable
This roundtable takes an embodied approach to consumption, treating the body as an active medium through which consumption is organized, experienced and governed, rather than as a residual site of inscription. Drawing on perspectives from sociology, geography and digital media studies, the contributors discuss how sensory and affective bodily experiences influence everyday consumption in various contexts, from hunger and satiety to walking and ‘s…
Risk sharing or market shares? Mapping the organisational governance spectrum of community supported agriculture globally
The industrialised agricultural production system is associated with economic, social and environmental challenges. One alternative model is community supported agriculture (CSA), which involves a direct, long-term partnership between producers and consumers. Existing scientific literature identifies three main issues that the CSA movement seeks to address: the social recognition of food producers, their economic situation, and the environmental …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Consumption (sociology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works)