Professor Mara Miele
Professor in Human Geography
School of Geography and Planning
- Media commentator
Overview
Mara is a Professor in the School with research interests in the areas of Animal Geographies, Post-humanism; Human/non-human animals' relations; Food consumption practices; Ethical consumption.
News
New Book - Improving farm animal welfare. Science and society working together: the Welfare Quality approach.edited by: Harry Blokhuis, Mara Miele, Isabelle Veissier and Bryan Jones
How do you define the quality of life of a farmed animal? This timely book addresses the complex and often controversial issues surrounding the assessment and improvement of farm animal welfare. It synthesises the huge body of work carried out between 2004 and 2009 by the largest ever international network of scientists and stakeholders working in the EU funded project Welfare Quality. It describes some of the obstacles encountered in developing a dialogue between science and society, the proposed solutions and why particular paths were chosen. The book provides a valuable source of knowledge on farm animal welfare for social and animal scientists, students, teachers, policy makers, lobby groups and the animal industry.
2013, 232 pages, paperback, edited volume
ISBN: 978-90-8686-216-0
Price (€): 54.00 (excluding VAT)
Also available as an e-book
Download table of contents of the book 'Improving farm animal welfare'. (PDF file).
New report on Halal Slaughter Practices in Wales (2013) by Miele, M., Rucinska, K. and Anil, H. is now available.
House of Beasts Symposium: Enquiries into the Human and the Animal
Shrewsbury, 18th February 2012
Organised by Meadow Arts and hosted by Shropshire Wildlife Trust. The video of Mara's presentation, 'A journey to a slaughterhouse: Geographies of killing, technologies of care', is now available to view.
EU Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 Conference - 'Empowering consumers and creating market opportunities for animal welfare' Brussels, 29th February - 1st March 2012
- Further information is available on the European Commission Conferences webpage.
- Mara's presentation, 'How to influence consumers', is available to view as a pdf file.
Welfare Quality Report Series Complete
The series of Welfare Quality Reports (19 vols) has now been completed. Individual reports are available for download.
New Report on Consumers' Attitude to Animal WelfareMiele, M. (2010) 'Report concerning consumer perceptions and attitudes towards farm animal welfare' Official Experts Report EAWP (task 1.3), Uppsala: Uppsala University.
This report is an official deliverable of the EU VII Framework project European Animal Welfare Platform.
Food Programme on BBC Radio 4Mara participated in the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on Sunday 21st February, which looked at the growing demand for halal meat in Britain. The programme can be heard again on BBC iPlayer Console - Food Programme: Halal.
Press Release from Dialrel on Recommendations for Good PracticeThe Dialrel project has now ended and the final document, Improving Animal Welfare during Religious Slaughter, Recommendations for Good Practice, is now available.
Letter to NewScientist about Religious Slaughter in Europe and the EU project DialrelA letter sent to NewScientist has been published in the Opinion session of the issue 2377 on November 4th, 2009 with the title 'Meat for a ritual'.
Publication
2025
- Rault, J. et al. 2025. A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare. Biology Letters
2024
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Miele, M. and Smith, H. 2024. De-centring the human: multi-species research as embodied practice. The Sociological Review Magazine (10.1177/00380261241245818)
- Miele, M., Lever, J., Evans, A. and Fuseini, A. 2024. Situating Halal: Religiosity, identity and lifestyle in halal consumption in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. Consumption and Society 3(1), pp. 37-55. (10.1332/27528499Y2023D000000001)
- Francis, B. and Miele, M. 2024. Are health professionals 'equipped' to support vegan mothers in the UK?. Consumption and Society
2023
- Fox, R., Charles, N., Smith, H. and Miele, M. 2023. 'Imagine you are a dog': embodied learning in multispecies research. Cultural Geographies 30(3), pp. 429-452. (10.1177/14744740221102907)
- Miele, M. and Bear, C. 2023. More-than-human research methodologies.. In: Clifford, N., Cope, M. and Gillespie, T. eds. Key Methods in Geography.. London: Routledge, pp. 229-244.
- Lever, J., Vandeventer, J. S. and Miele, M. 2023. The ontological politics of kosher food: between strict orthodoxy and global markets.. Environment and Planning A 55(2), pp. 255-273. (10.1177/0308518X221127025)
- Fuseini, A., Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2023. Poultry welfare at slaughter. Poultry 2(1), pp. 98-110. (10.3390/poultry2010010)
- Miele, M. and Blokhuis, H. 2023. Editorial: Animal welfare labelling. Frontiers in Animal Science 3, article number: 1108111. (10.3389/fanim.2022.1108111)
2022
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Miele, M. and Smith, H. 2022. Dogs at work: gendered organizational cultures and dog human partnerships.. In: Hamilton, L. and Tallberg, L. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford Academic, pp. 442-456., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192848185.013.29)
- Miele, M. and Bear, C. 2022. Geography and posthumanism. In: Herbrechter, S. et al. eds. Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-23., (10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1)
2021
- Smith, H., Miele, M., Charles, N. and Fox, R. 2021. Becoming with a police dog: training technologies for bonding. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46(2), pp. 478-494. (10.1111/tran.12429)
- Veissier, I., Miele, M. and Mounier, L. 2021. Animal welfare official inspections: farmers and inspectors shared concerns. animal 15(1), article number: 100038. (10.1016/j.animal.2020.100038)
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Smith, H. and Miele, M. 2021. Fulfilling your dog's potential: changing dimensions of power in dog training cultures. Animal Studies Journal 10(2), pp. 169-200. (10.14453/asj.v10i2.8)
- Mert Cakal, T. and Miele, M. 2021. Community supported agriculture (CSA): significance and prospects for growth for individuals, communities, and food systems. CAB Reviews 16, article number: 61. (10.1079/PAVSNNR202116061)
2020
- Cakal, T. and Miele, M. 2020. ‘Workable utopias’ for socialchange through inclusion and empowerment? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation. Agriculture and Human Values 37, pp. 1241-1260. (10.1007/s10460-020-10141-6)
- Miele, M., Lever, J. and Evans, A. 2020. Establishing a dialogue between ‘science, society and religion’ about religious slaughter.. In: Ramadan Al-Teinaz, Y., Spear, S. and Abd El-Rahim, I. H. A. eds. The Halal Food Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 343-352., (10.1002/9781118823026.ch21)
2019
- Blokhuis, H. J., Vissier, I., Miele, M. and Jones, B. 2019. Safeguarding farm animal welfare. In: Vogt, M. ed. Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors : Outcomes for Society and the Environment. Routledge, pp. 132-154.
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2019. Enacting public understandings: the case of farm animal welfare.. Geoforum 99, pp. 1-10. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.013)
2018
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M., Boissy, A. and Molento, C. 2018. Perception of animal sentience by Brazilian and French citizens: the case of sheep welfare and sentience. PLoS ONE 13(7), article number: e0200425. (10.1371/journal.pone.0200425)
- Miele, M. 2018. Making nature productive: stories of farmed and wild salmons, cow’s choice, good bugs, earthworms and gardening. In: Marsden, T. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Nature., Vol. 2. SAGE, pp. 817-830.
2017
- Colebrooke, L. and Miele, M. 2017. Eating art and the art of eating: unsettling the practices of taste. Performance Research 22(7), pp. 102-108. (10.1080/13528165.2017.1353203)
- Miele, M., Lomellini-Dereclenne, A., Mounier, L. and Veissier, I. 2017. Implementation of the European legislation to protect farm animals: a case-study on French inspections to find solutions to improve compliance. Animal Welfare Journal 26(3), pp. 311-321. (10.7120/09627286.26.3.311)
- Miele, M. et al. eds. 2017. Transforming the rural: global processes and local futures. Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Emerald.
- Miele, M. 2017. On sensing and making sense: Debate title: Better than text? Critical reflections on the practices of visceral methodologies in human geography. Geoforum 82, pp. 204-205. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.019)
- Evans, A. and Miele, M. 2017. Food labelling as a response to political consumption: effects and contradictions. In: Keller, M. et al. eds. Routledge Handbook on Consumption. Routledge International Handbooks Routledge, pp. 233-247.
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M. and Molento, C. 2017. Perception of sheep welfare and sentience by citizens, veterinarians, biologists and animal scientists of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.. Presented at: VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Environmental Responsibility and Innovation, Brazil, 30 July - 2 August 2017VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Sociede Brasileira do Biometeorologia pp. 1-5., (10.6084/m9.figshare.5183008.v1)
2016
- Davies, G. F. et al. 2016. Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare. PLoS ONE 11(7), article number: e0158791. (10.1371/journal.pone.0158791)
- Miele, M. 2016. Killing animals for food: how science, religion and technologies affect the public debate about religious slaughter. Food Ethics 1(1), pp. 47-60. (10.1007/s41055-016-0004-y)
- Miele, M. 2016. The making of the brave sheep..or the laboratory as the unlikely space of attunement to animal emotions. Geohumanities 2(1), pp. 58-75. (10.1080/2373566X.2016.1167617)
2015
- Bruford, M. W. et al. 2015. Prospects and challenges for the conservation of farm animal genomic resources, 2015-2025. Frontiers in Genetics 6, article number: 314. (10.3389/fgene.2015.00314)
- Miele, M. and Rucinska, K. 2015. Producing halal meat: the case of halal slaughter practices in Wales, UK. In: Emel, J. and Neo, H. eds. Political Ecologies of Meat Production., Vol. 54. Routledge Studies in Political Ecology London: Routledge, pp. 253-277.
- Miele, M., Horlings, L. and Bock, B. 2015. Animal welfare: the challenges of implementing a common legislation in Europe. In: Bonanno, A. and Busch, L. eds. The Handbook of International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 295-321.
- Miele, M. 2015. Petite histoire de l’étude du bien-être animal : comment cet objet sociétal est devenu un objet scientifique transdisciplinaire.. INRA Prod. Anim 28(5), pp. 399-410.
- Miele, M., Wilder, M., Ingram, M., Migrane, E., Schein, R. and Prytherch, D. 2015. The power of narrative in environmental networks (2013), by Lejano, R., Ingram, M. and Ingram, H. [Book Review]. AAG Annals Review of Books 3(2), pp. 99-108. (10.1080/2325548X.2015.1015922)
2014
- Bock, B., Hacking, N. and Miele, M. 2014. Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network (EuWelNet) - Deliverable 4 (2014). Project Report. [Online]. EUWelNet. Available at: http://www.euwelnet.eu/downloadattachment/53429/24945/EUWelNet%20Deliverable%204%20FINAL.pdf
- Veissier, I. and Miele, M. 2014. Animal welfare: towards transdisciplinarity - the European experience. Animal Production Science 54(9), pp. 1119-1129. (10.1071/AN14330)
- Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2014. Improving animal welfare in Europe: Cases of comparative bio-sustainabilities. In: Marsden, T. K. and Morley, A. S. eds. Sustainable Food Systems: Building a new paradigm. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 143-165.
2013
- Latimer, J. E. and Miele, M. 2013. Naturecultures? Science, affect and the non-human. Theory Culture & Society 30(7-8), pp. 5-31. (10.1177/0263276413502088)
- Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2013. Civilizing the market for welfare friendly products in Europe? The techno-ethics of the Welfare Quality® assessment. Geoforum 48, pp. 63-72. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.003)
- Blokhuis, H. J. et al. eds. 2013. Improving farm animal welfare: Science and society working together: The welfare quality approach. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
- Miele, M., Bergeaud-Blacker, F. and Zivotofsky, Z. A. 2013. Knowledge and attitudes of European Kosher consumers as revealed through focus groups. Society and Animals 21(5), pp. 425-442. (10.1163/15685306-12341309)
- Miele, M. 2013. CittàSlow: la lentitud para construir una ciudad sostenible. Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global 122, pp. 13-24.
- Miele, M. 2013. Religious slaughter: Promoting a dialogue about the welfare of animals at time of killing. Society and Animals 21(5), pp. 421-424. (10.1163/15685306-12341308)
2012
- Lever, J. and Miele, M. 2012. The growth of Halal meat markets in Europe: an exploration of the supply side theory of religion. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 528-537. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.004)
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2012. Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (or not to matter) within food consumption practices. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(2), pp. 298-314. (10.1068/d12810)
2011
- Miele, M., Viessier, I., Evans, A. B. and Botreau, R. 2011. Animal Welfare: Establishing a Dialogue Between Science and Society. Animal Welfare 20(1), pp. 103-117.
- Thompson, P. B., Appleby, M., Busch, L., Kalof, L., Norwood, B. F., Miele, M. and Pajor, E. 2011. Values and public acceptability dimensions of sustainable egg production. Poultry Science 90(9), pp. 2097-2109. (10.3382/ps.2010-0138)
- Miele, M. 2011. The taste of happiness: free-range chicken. Environment and Planning A 43(9), pp. 2076-2090. (10.1068/a43257)
- Miele, M. 2011. Obesity and genomics in Italy. In: Korthals, M. ed. Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Vol. 18. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 161-176.
- Law, J. and Miele, M. 2011. Animal practices. In: Carter, B. and Charles, N. eds. Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 50-65.
- Miele, M., Buller, H., Veissier, I., Bock, B. and Spoolder, H. 2011. Knowing Animals: Introduction and Overview. Animal Welfare 20(1), pp. 1-2.
- Higgin, M., Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2011. A good kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter. In: Carter, B. and Charles, N. eds. Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-194.
2010
- Blokhuis, H. J., Veissier, I., Miele, M. and Jones, B. 2010. The Welfare Quality® project and beyond: safeguarding farm animal well-being. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Science 60(3), pp. 129-140. (10.1080/09064702.2010.523480)
- Morgan, S. L., Marsden, T. K., Miele, M. and Morley, A. S. 2010. Agricultural multifunctionality and farmers' entrepreneurial skills: a study of Tuscan and Welsh farmers. Journal of Rural Studies 26(2), pp. 116-129. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.09.002)
- Miele, M., Higgin, M. and Evans, A. B. 2010. Dubbi dei consumatori, normativa e trasparenza del mercato [Consumer's concerns, regulation and market transparency]. In: Cenci Goga, B. and Fermani, A. G. eds. La Macellazione Religiosa: Protezione degli Animali e Produzione Igenica delle Carni [Religious slaughter: animal welfare and the hygienic production of meat]. Milan: Point Veterinaire Italie, pp. 69-81.
- Miele, M. and Evans, A. B. 2010. When foods become animals: ruminations on ethics and responsibility in care-full practices of consumption. Ethics Place and Environment 13(2), pp. 171-190. (10.1080/13668791003778842)
2009
- Cole, M., Miele, M., Hines, P., Zokaei, K., Evans, B. K. P. and Beale, J. 2009. Animal foods and climate change: shadowing eating practices. International Journal of Consumer Studies 33(2), pp. 162-167. (10.1111/j.1470-6431.2009.00751.x)
- Miele, M. 2009. CittaSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. In: Rumford, C. ed. Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 135-156.
- Lutman, P. et al. 2009. Environmental, economic and social impacts of NAE agriculture and AKST. In: Beverly, D. et al. eds. Agriculture at a Crossroads: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report Vol. 4. Washington: Island Press, pp. 79-115.
- Miele, M. and Hendrickson, M. 2009. Changes in agriculture and food production in NAE since 1945. In: McIntyre, B. D. et al. eds. Agriculture at a Crossroads: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report., Vol. 4. Washington: Island Press, pp. 20-79.
- Miele, M. 2009. Meat for a ritual. New Scientist(2733), pp. 35-36.
- Hendrickson, M., Miele, M. and Morgan, S. L. 2009. Changes in agriculture and food production in NAE since 1945. In: McIntyre, B. D. et al. eds. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report. Agriculture at a Crossroads Vol. 4. Washington, D.C: Island Press, pp. 20-78.
- Tranter, R. B. et al. 2009. Consumers' willingness-to-pay for organic conversion-grade food: Evidence from five EU countries. Food Policy 34(3), pp. 287-294. (10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.03.001)
2008
- Miele, M. 2008. CittàSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. Space and Polity 12(1), pp. 135-156. (10.1080/13562570801969572)
- Pinducciu, D., Ara, A., Morgan, S. L., Miele, M. and Marsden, T. K. 2008. Assessment of entrepreneurial skills and the factors enhancing or hindering the development of such skills through a study of farms within the region of Tuscany. In: Vesala, K. M. and Pyysiäinen, J. eds. Understanding entrepreneurial skills in the farm context. Frick, Switzerland: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, pp. 167-264.
- Morgan, S. L., Miele, M. and Marsden, T. K. 2008. The ESOF project within its policy context: CAP reform, global change and the response of farmers. In: Rudmann, C. ed. Entrepreneurial skills and their role in enhancing the relative independence of farmers: results and recommendations. Frick, Switzerland: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, pp. 67-84.
- Miele, M. and Ara, A. 2008. Le scelte alimentari e il benessere animale: le preoccupazioni e le aspettative delle consumatrici e dei consumatori italiani. AgriregioniEuropa 4(13)
2007
- Miele, M. and Bock, B. 2007. Competing Discourses of Farm Animal Welfare and Agri-food Restructuring [Editorial]. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 15(3), pp. 1-7.
2006
- Miele, M. and Evans, A. 2006. Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoring. In: Kaiser, M. and Lienm, M. eds. Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 190-197.
- Miele, M. 2006. The slow food movement. European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics Newsletter 4(3), pp. 2-4.
- Miele, M. 2006. Consumption culture: the case of food. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. and Moony, P. eds. The Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 345-364.
2005
- Butterworth, A., Main, D., Whay, B., Miele, M. and Evans, A. B. 2005. Farm animal welfare [Letter]. Veterinary Record 157(3), pp. 96.
- Miele, M., Murdoch, J. and Roe, E. 2005. Animals and ambivalence: governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector. In: Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. eds. Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation. Routledge Advances in Sociology Vol. 17. Routledge, pp. 169-185.
2004
- Murdoch, J. and Miele, M. 2004. Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective. In: Hughes, A. and Reimer, S. eds. Geographies of Commodity Chains. London: Routledge, pp. 102-119.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2004. A new aesthetic of food? relational reflexivity in the 'alternative' food movement. In: Harvey, M., McMeekin, A. and Warde, A. eds. Qualities of Food. Manchester: Manchester Univiversity Press, pp. 156-175.
2003
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2003. Fast food/slow food: standardising and differentiating cultures of food. In: Almas, R. and Lawrence, G. eds. Globalisation, Localisation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 25-41.
- Blockhuis, H. J., Jones, R. B., Geers, R., Miele, M. and Veisser, I. 2003. Measuring and monitoring animal welfare: Transparency in the product quality chain. Animal Welfare 12(4), pp. 445-455.
2002
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2002. The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: slow food in Tuscany. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4), pp. 312-328. (10.1111/1467-9523.00219)
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2002. Slow food. In: Ritzer, G. ed. McDonaldization: The Reader. Pine Forge Press, pp. 250-255.
- Miele, M. and Pinduccio, G. 2002. Organic farming in Tuscany. In: van der Ploeg, J. D. and Banks, J. eds. Living Countryside. Kluwer, pp. 128-129.
2001
- Miele, M. and Pinducciu, D. 2001. A Market for Nature: Linking the Production and Consumption of Organics in Tuscany. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 3(2), pp. 149-162. (10.1002/jepp.78)
- Miele, M. 2001. The changing passion of food in Europe. In: Buller, H. and Hoggart, K. eds. Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment. Perspectives on European Rural Policy and Planning Vol. 1. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 29-51.
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. 2001. L'Etica del mangiare, i valori e le preoccupazioni dei consumatori per il benessere animale negli allevamenti: un'applicazione dell'analisi Means-end Chain. Rivista di Economica Agraria LVI(1), pp. 81-103.
- Miele, M. 2001. Creating sustainability: the social construction of the market for organic products. Wageningen: Wageningen University.
2000
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. 2000. Attegiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualita della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta. Milan: Franco Angeli.
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. eds. 2000. Atteggiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualita della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta. Angeli.
1999
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 1999. Back to nature: Changing 'worlds of production' in the food sector. Sociolgia Ruralis 39(4), pp. 465-484. (10.1111/1467-9523.00119)
- Miele, M. 1999. Short circuits: New trends in the consumption of food and the changing status of meat. International Planning Studies 4(3), pp. 373-387. (10.1080/13563479908721748)
1998
- Miele, M. 1998. I prodotti biologici toscani nei mercati del Nord-Europa. Studio Editoriale Fiorentino.
- Miele, M. 1998. La commercializzazione dei prodotti biologici in Europa. Effemmelito.
1994
- Miele, M. 1994. Quality of biological products and quality of work. In: van der Plas, L. and Fonte, M. eds. Rural Gender Studies in Europe. Van Gorcum, pp. 136-147.
Articles
- Rault, J. et al. 2025. A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare. Biology Letters
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Miele, M. and Smith, H. 2024. De-centring the human: multi-species research as embodied practice. The Sociological Review Magazine (10.1177/00380261241245818)
- Miele, M., Lever, J., Evans, A. and Fuseini, A. 2024. Situating Halal: Religiosity, identity and lifestyle in halal consumption in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. Consumption and Society 3(1), pp. 37-55. (10.1332/27528499Y2023D000000001)
- Francis, B. and Miele, M. 2024. Are health professionals 'equipped' to support vegan mothers in the UK?. Consumption and Society
- Fox, R., Charles, N., Smith, H. and Miele, M. 2023. 'Imagine you are a dog': embodied learning in multispecies research. Cultural Geographies 30(3), pp. 429-452. (10.1177/14744740221102907)
- Lever, J., Vandeventer, J. S. and Miele, M. 2023. The ontological politics of kosher food: between strict orthodoxy and global markets.. Environment and Planning A 55(2), pp. 255-273. (10.1177/0308518X221127025)
- Fuseini, A., Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2023. Poultry welfare at slaughter. Poultry 2(1), pp. 98-110. (10.3390/poultry2010010)
- Miele, M. and Blokhuis, H. 2023. Editorial: Animal welfare labelling. Frontiers in Animal Science 3, article number: 1108111. (10.3389/fanim.2022.1108111)
- Smith, H., Miele, M., Charles, N. and Fox, R. 2021. Becoming with a police dog: training technologies for bonding. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46(2), pp. 478-494. (10.1111/tran.12429)
- Veissier, I., Miele, M. and Mounier, L. 2021. Animal welfare official inspections: farmers and inspectors shared concerns. animal 15(1), article number: 100038. (10.1016/j.animal.2020.100038)
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Smith, H. and Miele, M. 2021. Fulfilling your dog's potential: changing dimensions of power in dog training cultures. Animal Studies Journal 10(2), pp. 169-200. (10.14453/asj.v10i2.8)
- Mert Cakal, T. and Miele, M. 2021. Community supported agriculture (CSA): significance and prospects for growth for individuals, communities, and food systems. CAB Reviews 16, article number: 61. (10.1079/PAVSNNR202116061)
- Cakal, T. and Miele, M. 2020. ‘Workable utopias’ for socialchange through inclusion and empowerment? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation. Agriculture and Human Values 37, pp. 1241-1260. (10.1007/s10460-020-10141-6)
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2019. Enacting public understandings: the case of farm animal welfare.. Geoforum 99, pp. 1-10. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.013)
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M., Boissy, A. and Molento, C. 2018. Perception of animal sentience by Brazilian and French citizens: the case of sheep welfare and sentience. PLoS ONE 13(7), article number: e0200425. (10.1371/journal.pone.0200425)
- Colebrooke, L. and Miele, M. 2017. Eating art and the art of eating: unsettling the practices of taste. Performance Research 22(7), pp. 102-108. (10.1080/13528165.2017.1353203)
- Miele, M., Lomellini-Dereclenne, A., Mounier, L. and Veissier, I. 2017. Implementation of the European legislation to protect farm animals: a case-study on French inspections to find solutions to improve compliance. Animal Welfare Journal 26(3), pp. 311-321. (10.7120/09627286.26.3.311)
- Miele, M. 2017. On sensing and making sense: Debate title: Better than text? Critical reflections on the practices of visceral methodologies in human geography. Geoforum 82, pp. 204-205. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.019)
- Davies, G. F. et al. 2016. Developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare. PLoS ONE 11(7), article number: e0158791. (10.1371/journal.pone.0158791)
- Miele, M. 2016. Killing animals for food: how science, religion and technologies affect the public debate about religious slaughter. Food Ethics 1(1), pp. 47-60. (10.1007/s41055-016-0004-y)
- Miele, M. 2016. The making of the brave sheep..or the laboratory as the unlikely space of attunement to animal emotions. Geohumanities 2(1), pp. 58-75. (10.1080/2373566X.2016.1167617)
- Bruford, M. W. et al. 2015. Prospects and challenges for the conservation of farm animal genomic resources, 2015-2025. Frontiers in Genetics 6, article number: 314. (10.3389/fgene.2015.00314)
- Miele, M. 2015. Petite histoire de l’étude du bien-être animal : comment cet objet sociétal est devenu un objet scientifique transdisciplinaire.. INRA Prod. Anim 28(5), pp. 399-410.
- Miele, M., Wilder, M., Ingram, M., Migrane, E., Schein, R. and Prytherch, D. 2015. The power of narrative in environmental networks (2013), by Lejano, R., Ingram, M. and Ingram, H. [Book Review]. AAG Annals Review of Books 3(2), pp. 99-108. (10.1080/2325548X.2015.1015922)
- Veissier, I. and Miele, M. 2014. Animal welfare: towards transdisciplinarity - the European experience. Animal Production Science 54(9), pp. 1119-1129. (10.1071/AN14330)
- Latimer, J. E. and Miele, M. 2013. Naturecultures? Science, affect and the non-human. Theory Culture & Society 30(7-8), pp. 5-31. (10.1177/0263276413502088)
- Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2013. Civilizing the market for welfare friendly products in Europe? The techno-ethics of the Welfare Quality® assessment. Geoforum 48, pp. 63-72. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.003)
- Miele, M., Bergeaud-Blacker, F. and Zivotofsky, Z. A. 2013. Knowledge and attitudes of European Kosher consumers as revealed through focus groups. Society and Animals 21(5), pp. 425-442. (10.1163/15685306-12341309)
- Miele, M. 2013. CittàSlow: la lentitud para construir una ciudad sostenible. Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global 122, pp. 13-24.
- Miele, M. 2013. Religious slaughter: Promoting a dialogue about the welfare of animals at time of killing. Society and Animals 21(5), pp. 421-424. (10.1163/15685306-12341308)
- Lever, J. and Miele, M. 2012. The growth of Halal meat markets in Europe: an exploration of the supply side theory of religion. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 528-537. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.004)
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2012. Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (or not to matter) within food consumption practices. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(2), pp. 298-314. (10.1068/d12810)
- Miele, M., Viessier, I., Evans, A. B. and Botreau, R. 2011. Animal Welfare: Establishing a Dialogue Between Science and Society. Animal Welfare 20(1), pp. 103-117.
- Thompson, P. B., Appleby, M., Busch, L., Kalof, L., Norwood, B. F., Miele, M. and Pajor, E. 2011. Values and public acceptability dimensions of sustainable egg production. Poultry Science 90(9), pp. 2097-2109. (10.3382/ps.2010-0138)
- Miele, M. 2011. The taste of happiness: free-range chicken. Environment and Planning A 43(9), pp. 2076-2090. (10.1068/a43257)
- Miele, M., Buller, H., Veissier, I., Bock, B. and Spoolder, H. 2011. Knowing Animals: Introduction and Overview. Animal Welfare 20(1), pp. 1-2.
- Blokhuis, H. J., Veissier, I., Miele, M. and Jones, B. 2010. The Welfare Quality® project and beyond: safeguarding farm animal well-being. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Science 60(3), pp. 129-140. (10.1080/09064702.2010.523480)
- Morgan, S. L., Marsden, T. K., Miele, M. and Morley, A. S. 2010. Agricultural multifunctionality and farmers' entrepreneurial skills: a study of Tuscan and Welsh farmers. Journal of Rural Studies 26(2), pp. 116-129. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.09.002)
- Miele, M. and Evans, A. B. 2010. When foods become animals: ruminations on ethics and responsibility in care-full practices of consumption. Ethics Place and Environment 13(2), pp. 171-190. (10.1080/13668791003778842)
- Cole, M., Miele, M., Hines, P., Zokaei, K., Evans, B. K. P. and Beale, J. 2009. Animal foods and climate change: shadowing eating practices. International Journal of Consumer Studies 33(2), pp. 162-167. (10.1111/j.1470-6431.2009.00751.x)
- Miele, M. 2009. Meat for a ritual. New Scientist(2733), pp. 35-36.
- Tranter, R. B. et al. 2009. Consumers' willingness-to-pay for organic conversion-grade food: Evidence from five EU countries. Food Policy 34(3), pp. 287-294. (10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.03.001)
- Miele, M. 2008. CittàSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. Space and Polity 12(1), pp. 135-156. (10.1080/13562570801969572)
- Miele, M. and Ara, A. 2008. Le scelte alimentari e il benessere animale: le preoccupazioni e le aspettative delle consumatrici e dei consumatori italiani. AgriregioniEuropa 4(13)
- Miele, M. and Bock, B. 2007. Competing Discourses of Farm Animal Welfare and Agri-food Restructuring [Editorial]. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 15(3), pp. 1-7.
- Miele, M. 2006. The slow food movement. European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics Newsletter 4(3), pp. 2-4.
- Butterworth, A., Main, D., Whay, B., Miele, M. and Evans, A. B. 2005. Farm animal welfare [Letter]. Veterinary Record 157(3), pp. 96.
- Blockhuis, H. J., Jones, R. B., Geers, R., Miele, M. and Veisser, I. 2003. Measuring and monitoring animal welfare: Transparency in the product quality chain. Animal Welfare 12(4), pp. 445-455.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2002. The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: slow food in Tuscany. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4), pp. 312-328. (10.1111/1467-9523.00219)
- Miele, M. and Pinducciu, D. 2001. A Market for Nature: Linking the Production and Consumption of Organics in Tuscany. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 3(2), pp. 149-162. (10.1002/jepp.78)
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. 2001. L'Etica del mangiare, i valori e le preoccupazioni dei consumatori per il benessere animale negli allevamenti: un'applicazione dell'analisi Means-end Chain. Rivista di Economica Agraria LVI(1), pp. 81-103.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 1999. Back to nature: Changing 'worlds of production' in the food sector. Sociolgia Ruralis 39(4), pp. 465-484. (10.1111/1467-9523.00119)
- Miele, M. 1999. Short circuits: New trends in the consumption of food and the changing status of meat. International Planning Studies 4(3), pp. 373-387. (10.1080/13563479908721748)
Book sections
- Miele, M. and Bear, C. 2023. More-than-human research methodologies.. In: Clifford, N., Cope, M. and Gillespie, T. eds. Key Methods in Geography.. London: Routledge, pp. 229-244.
- Charles, N., Fox, R., Miele, M. and Smith, H. 2022. Dogs at work: gendered organizational cultures and dog human partnerships.. In: Hamilton, L. and Tallberg, L. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford Academic, pp. 442-456., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192848185.013.29)
- Miele, M. and Bear, C. 2022. Geography and posthumanism. In: Herbrechter, S. et al. eds. Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-23., (10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1)
- Miele, M., Lever, J. and Evans, A. 2020. Establishing a dialogue between ‘science, society and religion’ about religious slaughter.. In: Ramadan Al-Teinaz, Y., Spear, S. and Abd El-Rahim, I. H. A. eds. The Halal Food Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 343-352., (10.1002/9781118823026.ch21)
- Blokhuis, H. J., Vissier, I., Miele, M. and Jones, B. 2019. Safeguarding farm animal welfare. In: Vogt, M. ed. Sustainability Certification Schemes in the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sectors : Outcomes for Society and the Environment. Routledge, pp. 132-154.
- Miele, M. 2018. Making nature productive: stories of farmed and wild salmons, cow’s choice, good bugs, earthworms and gardening. In: Marsden, T. ed. The SAGE Handbook of Nature., Vol. 2. SAGE, pp. 817-830.
- Evans, A. and Miele, M. 2017. Food labelling as a response to political consumption: effects and contradictions. In: Keller, M. et al. eds. Routledge Handbook on Consumption. Routledge International Handbooks Routledge, pp. 233-247.
- Miele, M. and Rucinska, K. 2015. Producing halal meat: the case of halal slaughter practices in Wales, UK. In: Emel, J. and Neo, H. eds. Political Ecologies of Meat Production., Vol. 54. Routledge Studies in Political Ecology London: Routledge, pp. 253-277.
- Miele, M., Horlings, L. and Bock, B. 2015. Animal welfare: the challenges of implementing a common legislation in Europe. In: Bonanno, A. and Busch, L. eds. The Handbook of International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 295-321.
- Miele, M. and Lever, J. 2014. Improving animal welfare in Europe: Cases of comparative bio-sustainabilities. In: Marsden, T. K. and Morley, A. S. eds. Sustainable Food Systems: Building a new paradigm. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 143-165.
- Miele, M. 2011. Obesity and genomics in Italy. In: Korthals, M. ed. Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Vol. 18. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 161-176.
- Law, J. and Miele, M. 2011. Animal practices. In: Carter, B. and Charles, N. eds. Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 50-65.
- Higgin, M., Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2011. A good kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter. In: Carter, B. and Charles, N. eds. Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-194.
- Miele, M., Higgin, M. and Evans, A. B. 2010. Dubbi dei consumatori, normativa e trasparenza del mercato [Consumer's concerns, regulation and market transparency]. In: Cenci Goga, B. and Fermani, A. G. eds. La Macellazione Religiosa: Protezione degli Animali e Produzione Igenica delle Carni [Religious slaughter: animal welfare and the hygienic production of meat]. Milan: Point Veterinaire Italie, pp. 69-81.
- Miele, M. 2009. CittaSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. In: Rumford, C. ed. Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 135-156.
- Lutman, P. et al. 2009. Environmental, economic and social impacts of NAE agriculture and AKST. In: Beverly, D. et al. eds. Agriculture at a Crossroads: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report Vol. 4. Washington: Island Press, pp. 79-115.
- Miele, M. and Hendrickson, M. 2009. Changes in agriculture and food production in NAE since 1945. In: McIntyre, B. D. et al. eds. Agriculture at a Crossroads: International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report., Vol. 4. Washington: Island Press, pp. 20-79.
- Hendrickson, M., Miele, M. and Morgan, S. L. 2009. Changes in agriculture and food production in NAE since 1945. In: McIntyre, B. D. et al. eds. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: North America and Europe (NAE) Report. Agriculture at a Crossroads Vol. 4. Washington, D.C: Island Press, pp. 20-78.
- Pinducciu, D., Ara, A., Morgan, S. L., Miele, M. and Marsden, T. K. 2008. Assessment of entrepreneurial skills and the factors enhancing or hindering the development of such skills through a study of farms within the region of Tuscany. In: Vesala, K. M. and Pyysiäinen, J. eds. Understanding entrepreneurial skills in the farm context. Frick, Switzerland: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, pp. 167-264.
- Morgan, S. L., Miele, M. and Marsden, T. K. 2008. The ESOF project within its policy context: CAP reform, global change and the response of farmers. In: Rudmann, C. ed. Entrepreneurial skills and their role in enhancing the relative independence of farmers: results and recommendations. Frick, Switzerland: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, pp. 67-84.
- Miele, M. and Evans, A. 2006. Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoring. In: Kaiser, M. and Lienm, M. eds. Ethics and the Politics of Food. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 190-197.
- Miele, M. 2006. Consumption culture: the case of food. In: Cloke, P., Marsden, T. and Moony, P. eds. The Handbook of Rural Studies. London: Sage, pp. 345-364.
- Miele, M., Murdoch, J. and Roe, E. 2005. Animals and ambivalence: governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector. In: Higgins, V. and Lawrence, G. eds. Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation. Routledge Advances in Sociology Vol. 17. Routledge, pp. 169-185.
- Murdoch, J. and Miele, M. 2004. Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective. In: Hughes, A. and Reimer, S. eds. Geographies of Commodity Chains. London: Routledge, pp. 102-119.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2004. A new aesthetic of food? relational reflexivity in the 'alternative' food movement. In: Harvey, M., McMeekin, A. and Warde, A. eds. Qualities of Food. Manchester: Manchester Univiversity Press, pp. 156-175.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2003. Fast food/slow food: standardising and differentiating cultures of food. In: Almas, R. and Lawrence, G. eds. Globalisation, Localisation and Sustainable Livelihoods. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 25-41.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2002. Slow food. In: Ritzer, G. ed. McDonaldization: The Reader. Pine Forge Press, pp. 250-255.
- Miele, M. and Pinduccio, G. 2002. Organic farming in Tuscany. In: van der Ploeg, J. D. and Banks, J. eds. Living Countryside. Kluwer, pp. 128-129.
- Miele, M. 2001. The changing passion of food in Europe. In: Buller, H. and Hoggart, K. eds. Agricultural Transformation, Food and Environment. Perspectives on European Rural Policy and Planning Vol. 1. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 29-51.
- Miele, M. 1994. Quality of biological products and quality of work. In: van der Plas, L. and Fonte, M. eds. Rural Gender Studies in Europe. Van Gorcum, pp. 136-147.
Books
- Miele, M. et al. eds. 2017. Transforming the rural: global processes and local futures. Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Emerald.
- Blokhuis, H. J. et al. eds. 2013. Improving farm animal welfare: Science and society working together: The welfare quality approach. Wageningen Academic Publishers.
- Miele, M. 2001. Creating sustainability: the social construction of the market for organic products. Wageningen: Wageningen University.
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. 2000. Attegiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualita della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta. Milan: Franco Angeli.
- Miele, M. and Parisi, V. eds. 2000. Atteggiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualita della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta. Angeli.
- Miele, M. 1998. I prodotti biologici toscani nei mercati del Nord-Europa. Studio Editoriale Fiorentino.
- Miele, M. 1998. La commercializzazione dei prodotti biologici in Europa. Effemmelito.
Conferences
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M. and Molento, C. 2017. Perception of sheep welfare and sentience by citizens, veterinarians, biologists and animal scientists of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.. Presented at: VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Environmental Responsibility and Innovation, Brazil, 30 July - 2 August 2017VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Sociede Brasileira do Biometeorologia pp. 1-5., (10.6084/m9.figshare.5183008.v1)
Monographs
- Bock, B., Hacking, N. and Miele, M. 2014. Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network (EuWelNet) - Deliverable 4 (2014). Project Report. [Online]. EUWelNet. Available at: http://www.euwelnet.eu/downloadattachment/53429/24945/EUWelNet%20Deliverable%204%20FINAL.pdf
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2019. Enacting public understandings: the case of farm animal welfare.. Geoforum 99, pp. 1-10. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.12.013)
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M., Boissy, A. and Molento, C. 2018. Perception of animal sentience by Brazilian and French citizens: the case of sheep welfare and sentience. PLoS ONE 13(7), article number: e0200425. (10.1371/journal.pone.0200425)
- Colebrooke, L. and Miele, M. 2017. Eating art and the art of eating: unsettling the practices of taste. Performance Research 22(7), pp. 102-108. (10.1080/13528165.2017.1353203)
- Miele, M. 2017. On sensing and making sense: Debate title: Better than text? Critical reflections on the practices of visceral methodologies in human geography. Geoforum 82, pp. 204-205. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.019)
- Evans, A. and Miele, M. 2017. Food labelling as a response to political consumption: effects and contradictions. In: Keller, M. et al. eds. Routledge Handbook on Consumption. Routledge International Handbooks Routledge, pp. 233-247.
- Tamioso, P., Rucinque, D., Miele, M. and Molento, C. 2017. Perception of sheep welfare and sentience by citizens, veterinarians, biologists and animal scientists of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.. Presented at: VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Environmental Responsibility and Innovation, Brazil, 30 July - 2 August 2017VII Brazilian Congress of Biometeorology, Ambience, Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Sociede Brasileira do Biometeorologia pp. 1-5., (10.6084/m9.figshare.5183008.v1)
- Miele, M. 2016. Killing animals for food: how science, religion and technologies affect the public debate about religious slaughter. Food Ethics 1(1), pp. 47-60. (10.1007/s41055-016-0004-y)
- Lever, J. and Miele, M. 2012. The growth of Halal meat markets in Europe: an exploration of the supply side theory of religion. Journal of Rural Studies 28(4), pp. 528-537. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.06.004)
- Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2012. Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (or not to matter) within food consumption practices. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(2), pp. 298-314. (10.1068/d12810)
- Miele, M. 2011. The taste of happiness: free-range chicken. Environment and Planning A 43(9), pp. 2076-2090. (10.1068/a43257)
- Higgin, M., Evans, A. B. and Miele, M. 2011. A good kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter. In: Carter, B. and Charles, N. eds. Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-194.
- Miele, M. and Evans, A. B. 2010. When foods become animals: ruminations on ethics and responsibility in care-full practices of consumption. Ethics Place and Environment 13(2), pp. 171-190. (10.1080/13668791003778842)
- Miele, M. 2009. CittaSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. In: Rumford, C. ed. Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 135-156.
- Miele, M. 2008. CittàSlow: producing slowness against the fast life. Space and Polity 12(1), pp. 135-156. (10.1080/13562570801969572)
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 2002. The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: slow food in Tuscany. Sociologia Ruralis 42(4), pp. 312-328. (10.1111/1467-9523.00219)
- Miele, M. 2001. Creating sustainability: the social construction of the market for organic products. Wageningen: Wageningen University.
- Miele, M. and Murdoch, J. 1999. Back to nature: Changing 'worlds of production' in the food sector. Sociolgia Ruralis 39(4), pp. 465-484. (10.1111/1467-9523.00119)
Research
Research Interests
Animal Geographies, Post-humanism; Human/non-human animals' relations; Food consumption practices; Ethical consumption.
More Than Humans
In recent years, my work has developed in dialogue with sociologists and geographers, sharing a general concern with human/non-human animal relations and an attentiveness to human/non-human animal encounters and interfaces. I have looked at food practices as one of these interfaces. Inspired by the work of Elspeth Probyn and Sarah Whatmore among others, I have looked at eating as a way 'to find ourselves in various assemblages, produced and producing ourselves anew'.i
I have developed a growing interest in how ethical relations are enacted and articulated within the different practices and encounters between human and non-human animals. I have become particularly fascinated by the new technologies and social organisations that are transforming the habitats of both farm animals and humans, new breeds of farm animals and new animal farming systems in which humans and animals interact. These assemblages of animals and farming technologies offer insights into the diversity of ideas about good farming and into the specificity of the perceptions of what constitutes a good life for animals. They also entail different interpretations of the ways in which human and non-human animals can interact.
I am currently working on two projects that offer me the opportunity to explore these issues: the first project is the EU-funded 6th Framework Integrated Project Welfare Quality® (2004-2009). I started to work on this project with Jonathan Murdoch, Emma Roe and Adrian Evans (Mara Miele, Jonathan Murdoch and Emma Roe, 'Animals and ambivalence: governing farm animal welfare in the European food sector', in V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds), Agricultural Governance, Routledge, 2005). I am continuing this work with Adrian Evans, Marc Higgin, Matthew Cole, John Law and Joek Roex. Welfare Quality® is dedicated to the development of a European Standard for animal welfare through a large collaborative effort of animal scientists and social scientists from more than 50 Universities and research laboratories in Europe and Latin America. The animal scientists working in this project have developed animal-based welfare assessment protocols for several classes of farmed animals, based on scientific findings from welfare science research groups in EU Member States. The project is now beginning to examine possible mechanisms for using these assessment protocols to evaluate different animal farming practices. An important outlet for project publications is the Welfare Quality Report series, of which I am co-editor with Joek Roex.
The second project is the EU SSA project Dialrel (2006-2009) with Adrian Evans and Marc Higgin. This project is dedicated to the investigation of practices of religious slaughter (for halal and kosher foods) and aims to establish a dialogue between the various stakeholders involved in these practices and animal scientists and NGOs to address animal suffering at time of slaughter.
The approach we adopt in these two projects draws on the tradition of science and technology studies (STS), actor-network theory (ANT), and material semioticsii and aims to explore the technologies of bonding between human and non-human animals. In addition, it is important to explore how these technologies are enacted and performed within farming practices and within both conventional and religious slaughter practices by following the assemblages of moral and religious discourses, animals, farmers, consumers, researchers, practitioners, engineers and technologies that constitute them. An important dialogue in this work has been with natural scientists involved in experiments and research on the importance of non-human animal emotions in the production of knowledge about the boundaries between animality and humanity for addressing broader societal concerns about human and non-human animal relationships. I am particularly interested in how this dialogue, cultivated through working with animal scientists in these two projects, can develop my understanding of the process of knowledge production, scientific practices and expertise development. While explicit concerns with culture and the location of politics have been the main focus of large parts of science studies in the last two decades, I am interested in exploring how the 'working together' of animal scientists and social scientists towards the production of a joint tool or research outcome is affecting both social and natural scientists' situated logics, practices of knowledge production, and how it is moulding our expertise.
i Elspeth Probyn, Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities, Routledge, 2000.
ii Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003; Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford University Press, 2005; John Law and John Hassard, Actor-Network Theory and After, Blackwell Publishing, 1996; John Law, 'Actor-network theory and material semiotics', Link to publication, 2007; Jonathan Murdoch, Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space, Sage Publications, 2006.
Eating
I developed an interest in emerging practices of food consumption around concerns for sustainable development, social justice, environment and animal welfare. Between 1998 and 2007, I coordinated and participated in a range of projects concerned with different ethics and aesthetics of practices and materialities of food consumption. My main interests here were the boundaries between ordinary-ness and reflexive-ness of such practices in everyday life ('Consumption culture? The case of food', in P. Cloke, T. Marsden and P. Mooney (eds), The Handbook of Rural Studies, Sage, 2006). I developed these research interests in collaboration with Jonathan Murdoch, especially within our research on Slow Food in Italy between 1998 and 2005. We addressed these relational issues in a series of articles: 'The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany' (Sociologia Ruralis, vol. 42, no. 4., 2002), 'A new aesthetic of food? Relational reflexivity in the 'alternative' food movement' (in M. Harvey, A. McMeekin and A. Warde (eds), New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition, Manchester University Press, 2004), 'Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective' (in A. Hughes and S. Reimer (eds), Geographies of Commodity Chains, Pearson Education, 2003), 'Fast food/slow food: standardizing and differentiating cultures of food' (in R. Almås and G. Lawrence (eds), Globalization, Localization and Sustainable Livelihoods, Ahsgate, 2002). I am continuing this line of research in my interests in Cittá Slow, the slow cities network. Between 1998 and 2001, I collaborated with Vittoria Parisi in a project investigating the ethics and aesthetics of eating meat through Italian consumers' attitudes to animal welfare. The findings of this research are presented in a research monograph (Mara Miele and Vittoria Parisi (eds) Atteggiamento dei consumatori e politiche di qualità della carne in Italia e in Europa negli anni novanta, Edizioni Franco Angeli, 2000).
In the following years, I participated in other researches on consumers attitudes to organic and fair-trade products and political consumption.
More recently, I have become interested in children's consumption practices. I had the opportunity to pursue this interest in an ESRC funded project 'Delivering Sustainability: Towards the Creative Procurement of School Meals', (2005-2008) with Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Roberta Sonnino and Tania Bastia, here in Cardiff. In this project, I am looking at five case studies of school children in the UK and Italy. I am interested in exploring the food habits of children, their tastes for food, their knowledges about local cuisine and the plants and animals that they know as foods, the places they frequent when they eat, the friends/relatives they share food with, and the tools and materials they use and encounter while eating. My interests lie in exploring technologies of belonging that the children use and how they get a sense of place or become emplaced in a locality through the food practices they develop and their sensual experiences of food.
Rurality and Farming
For my doctoral research, I carried out fieldwork in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands with organic farmers, wholesalers, shopkeepers and policy-makers in order to study the social organisation of the emerging market for organic products in Europe and its implication for rural and environmental policies aimed at promoting sustainable development. This work has been published as a research monograph (Mara Miele, Creating Sustainability: The Social Construction of the Market for Organic Products, Wageningen University, 2001).
In the following years, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at Pisa University and continued the research on rural development in collaboration with colleagues in Pisa (Gianluca Brunori, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara), Wageningen (Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, René de Bruin, Henk Renting, Dirk Roep), Cardiff (Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden), Frankfurt (Karlheinz Knickel) and many others within the EU-funded project IMPACT (The Socio-economic Impact of Rural Development Policies). This project set out to understand the impressive and multi-dimensional heterogeneity of European agriculture, conceptualised in terms of farming styles (Jan Douwe van der Ploeg). The research identified the emergence of new development trajectories and the heterogeneous (re-)moulding of nature expressed in fields, animals, plant varieties, and foods.
I have continued a strand of this research within the EU-funded project ESoF (Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers, 2005-2008) looking at Italian farmers, farmers leaders and policy-makers with Terry Marsden, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara and Selyf Morgan. In this project, I am looking at farming as a practical activity, and I am interested in the heterogeneities of the relationships that it produces between human and non-human animals, devices and landscapes. Within this general interest, I am currently exploring the forms of emplacement emerging from farming practices and the emotional construction of place through embedded skills and expertise.
Projects
2013: EUWelNet, Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network, DG-Sanco funded project, 1 year, 26 partners, 1Million Euros.
2010-2015: Welfare Quality Network Member of the management team.
2012 - 2014: Principal Investigator 'Assessment of the application of the EU 2010 directive on meat chickens' welfare'. DEFRA, £270,000 (with Bristol and Reading Universities)
2012: Principal Investigator 'The halal meat market in Wales, potentials and barriers', Welsh Government, £20,000 June- September, 2012. 'Report on Halal Slaughter Practices in Wales' (2013) by Mara Miele, Karolina Rucinska, Haluk Anil.
2004 - 2009: Welfare Quality Project Steering Committee member - EU 6th Framework Integrated Project, 51 European partners and 4 partners from Latin America, overall project budget €17m (EU contribution €14.4m);
Coordinator of Science Society Dialogue activities (SP5);
Overall Coordinator of the comparative qualitative investigation on Consumers (focus group research in 7 EU countries) and Principal Investigator for the research on consumers in Italy;
Principal Investigator for the social science investigation of the implementation of the monitoring system in the UK;
Principal Investigator for the Citizens Juries in the UK and in Italy;
Principal Investigator for Cardiff University, budget €2.4M.
The Welfare Quality Protocols for improving animals welfare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsRqvK5sAbs
Final Stakeholder Conference, Uppsala, October 2009.
2006 - 2010: Dialrel General Project Coordinator of Dialrel - EU 6th Framework SSA Coordinator of WP4, budget for Cardiff University € 295,000 Euros
2006 - 2008: IAASTD Coordinating Lead Author of the Summary Report on Trade and Regulation for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) of the World Bank; Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 2, Part 2 of the North America-Europe Sub-global.
2007 - 2008: Warming Foods, Pilot study of the contribution to global warming of the food supply chains, budget £20,000.
2005 - 2008: Delivering Sustainability Co-investigator with Prof. Kevin Morgan and Prof. Terry Marsden for ESRC research grant Delivering sustainability: towards the creative procurement of school meals, budget £193,435.
2005 - 2008: Principal Investigator for the UK of EU - ESoF (STREP), Entrepreneurial Skills of Farmers, budget for Cardiff University €103,400.
2004: Obesity and Genomics Principal Investigator for Italy of Obesity and Genomics (Dutch Ministry of Research and University), budget €24,000.
2001 - 2004: Conversion Principal Investigator for Italy of Overcoming Barriers to Conversion to Organic Farming in the European Union through Markets for Converion Products (Conversion, partners: Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Denmark and Portugal) EU 5th Framework Programme - QRLT-2000-01112).
1998 - 2001: Impact Co-investigator of The Socio-economic Impact of Rural Development Policies: Realities and Potentials (6 partners: the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Spain) EU - FAIR CT-98-4288, budget €45,000.
1998 - 2001: Animal Welfare Principal investigator for Italy of Consumer Concern About Animal Welfare and Food Choice (5 partners: Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany) EU - FAIR CT98-3678 EU-ELSA-DGIV, budget €170,000.
Biography
Qualifications
- Final degree (Laurea) in Agricultural Economics (Magna laude) at Pisa University (Italy), (1984).
- PhD in Social Sciences (dissertation in sociology) at Wageningen University, (2001).
Career Profile
- Professor (2015) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Reader (2012 to 2015) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Senior Fellow (2004 to 2012) School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University.
- Senior Lecturer (till-2004) Department of Agronomy and Management of the Agro-ecosystem, Pisa University.
Awards and Prizes
Ashby Prize for her paper "The taste of happiness: free-range chicken", awarded by Environment and Planning A for the most innovative papers published in the 2011.
Contact Details
+44 29208 79121
Glamorgan Building, Room Room: 2.77, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA