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Stefan Wahlen

Professor of Food SociologyStefan Wahlen

Address: Senckenbergstrasse 3, 35390 Giessen

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Stefan Wahlen is professor of Food Sociology at Giessen University. After studying food and household studies at the University of Bonn he completed his Ph.D. in consumer economics at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Subsequently he worked at the chair group for Sociology of Consumption and Households at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). Currenty research focusses on food culture and eating in the sense of doing food, as well as organisational and socio-political dimensions of food. Stefan is coordinator of the European ERA-net project "FOOdIVERSE", which aims to uncover the role of diversity for a more sustainable and resilient food system. He is member of the steering committee of the "Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative" in Europe (SCORAI-Europe) and editor of the newly established journal "Consumption and Society", forthcoming 2022 published by Bristol University Press.


Research interests

  • socio-cultural food research
  • food culture and food patterns
  • sociology of consumption / food
  • consumer and food politics
  • social (and food) movements and everyday politics

 

 

Publications (selection)


A complete list of publications can be found on google scholar, ORCID or researchgate.


Francesca Forno & Stefan Wahlen (2022) Environmental activism and everyday life. In: M. Grasso & M. Giugni (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements, Seiten 434-450. New York, Milton Park: Routledge.

Francesca Forno & Stefan Wahlen (2022) Prefiguration in everyday practices: when the mundande becomes political. In: L. Monticelli (ed.) The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

 

Hilje van der Horst, Stefan Wahlen & Mirthe Reimerink (2021) Snacking practices in school: othering and deviance in a health-normative context. Critical Public Health, 31 (5): 595-604. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1713301

 

Marie Plessz & Stefan Wahlen (2020) All practices are shared, but some more than others: Sharedness of social practices and time-use in food consumption. Journal of Consumer Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1469540520907146

 

M Laamanen, S Wahlen, S Lorek (2018) A moral householding perspective on the sharing economy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 202: 1220-1227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.224

 

S Wahlen (2018) "Foodsharing": Reflecting on individualized collective action in a collaborative consumption community organisation. In: Contemporary Collaborative Consumption, 57-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21346-6_4

S Wahlen, S Dubuisson-Quellier (2018) Consumption governance toward more sustainable consumption. Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, 110 (1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.14307/JFCS110.1.7

 

 

Vita

     

Since 9/2019                       

Professor of Food Sociology at the University of Giessen

 
2015 - 2019

Assistant Professor at the chair group for Sociology of Consumption and Households at Wageningen University (NL)

 
2012 - 2015

Lecturer at the chair group for Sociology of Consumption and Households at Wageningen University (NL) (0,4 fte) and education coordinator of the Ph.D. programme in social sciences with around 400 Ph.D. candidates at WASS (0,6 fte)  Wageningen University (The Netherlands)

 
2007 - 2012

Ph.D. Research at the Chair for Consumer Economics  of the University of Helsinki (Finland)

Title of Dissertation: "Governing Everyday Consumption"

 
2001 - 2007

Graduate degree in Food and Household Studies at the University of Bonn

With exchanges to the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (2003-2004) and the University of Helsinki, Finland (2006-2007)

 

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