Emily Kennedy
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Environment and Society
Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection
Research Interests
Sustainable consumption
Food
social class
Gender
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- Understanding how engagement in environmentalism is shaped by social class, political ideology, and gender
- Identifying latent classes of environmentalism
- Determining the environmental impacts associated with different forms of environmentalism
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Publications
- Eating for Taste and Eating for Change: Ethical Consumption as a High-Status Practice (2019)
Social Forces, - Explaining support for renewable energy: commitments to self-sufficiency and communion (2019)
Environmental Politics, , 1--21 - Is there an “ideal feeder”? How healthy and eco-friendly food consumption choices impact judgments of parents (2019)
Agriculture and Human Values, 36 (1), 137--151 - Gendered citizenship and the individualization of environmental responsibility: evaluating a campus common reading program (2018)
Environmental Education Research, 24 (2), 191--206 - Reinterpreting the gender gap in household pro-environmental behaviour (2018)
Environmental Sociology, 4 (3), 299--310 - The Practice of Green Consumption (2018)
Environment and Society, , 187--206 - Using Semi-Structured Interviews to Identify the Place and Prominence of Shopping for Change in Local Food Movements (2018)
- Extension of What and to Whom? A Qualitative Study of Self-Provisioning Service Delivery in a University Extension Program (2017)
Food Systems and Health, , 177--198 - Organic vs. Local: Comparing individualist and collectivist motivations for “ethical” food consumption (2017)
Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, 4 (1), 68 - Small-p politics: how pleasurable, convivial and pragmatic political ideals influence engagement in eat-local initiatives (2017)
The British Journal of Sociology, 69 (3), 670--690 - The power of social norms for reducing and shifting electricity use (2017)
Energy Policy, 107, 43--52 - Environmental evaporation: the invisibility of environmental concern in food system change (2016)
Environmental Sociology, 2 (1), 18--28 - Environmental Harm and “the Good Farmer”: Conceptualizing Discourses of Environmental Sustainability in the Beef Industry (2016)
Rural Sociology, 81 (2), 172--193 - Environmental Politics and Women's Activism (2016)
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, - Food activists, consumer strategies, and the democratic imagination: Insights from eat-local movements (2016)
Journal of Consumer Culture, 18 (1), 149--168 - Locating Gender in Environmental Sociology (2015)
Sociology Compass, 9 (10), 920--929 - Teaching & Learning Guide for Locating Gender in Environmental Sociology (2015)
Sociology Compass, 9 (11), 1000--1004 - Are we counting what counts? A closer look at environmental concern, pro-environmental behaviour, and carbon footprint (2013)
Local Environment, 20 (2), 220--236 - Downshifting: An Exploration of Motivations, Quality of Life, and Environmental Practices (2013)
Sociological Forum, 28 (4), 764--783 - Egregious Emitters (2013)
Environment and Behavior, 46 (5), 535--555 - Scaling up alternative food networks: farmers’ markets and the role of clustering in western Canada (2012)
Agriculture and Human Values, 29 (3), 333--345 - Public views on forest management: value orientation and forest dependency as indicators of diversity (2011)
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 41 (4), 740--749 - Rethinking ecological citizenship: the role of neighbourhood networks in cultural change (2011)
Environmental Politics, 20 (6), 843--860 - David Boyle & Andrew Simms, The New Economics: A Bigger Picture (2010)
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 6 (2), 70--71 - Rural-Urban Differences in Environmental Concern in Canada (2009)
Rural Sociology, 74 (3), 309--329 - Towards a sociology of consumerism (2008)
International Journal of Sustainable Society, 1 (2), 172
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