Robert Chiles

Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology

110C Armsby
University Park, PA
rmc263@psu.edu

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Huck Affiliations

Plant Institute

Publication Tags

Research Ethics Qualitative Research Agriculture Meat Food Big Data Science Gas History Teaching Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse Gases Gases Electric Autotransformers Policy Epistemological Economics Gas Emissions Students Greenhouse Gas Tension Dimension Safety Animals Transparency

Most Recent Papers

Principles of foodservice ethics: A general review

A Sharma, Robert Chiles, Robin Dipietro, Angeline Jeyakumar, Hema Kesa, Heather Monteiro, Kevin Roberts, Laure Saulais, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management on p. 15

Consumer agency and the ethical obligations of food service providers in an era of cheap food, racial inequality, and neoliberal governance

Robert Chiles, 2019, on p. 193-206

Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big Data Era

Leland Glenna, Arielle Hesse, Clare Hinrichs, Robert Chiles, Carolyn Sachs, 2019, American Behavioral Scientist on p. 667-668

Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era

Leland Glenna, Arielle Hesse, Clare Hinrichs, Robert Chiles, Carolyn Sachs, 2019, American Behavioral Scientist on p. 555-559

Constructing a New Food Ethics: Waste and Discourses of Difference

Tiffany Tsantsoulas, Robert Chiles, Steven Rachman, Gretel Van Wieren, Renee Wallace, 2019, The Public Philosophy Journal on p. 16

Contested sustainability discourses as lived experience

Robert Magneson Chiles, 2018, on p. 188-200

Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture

Robert M. Chiles, Eileen E. Fabian, Daniel Tobin, Scott J. Colby, S. Molly DePue, 2018, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics on p. 341-348

Why is meat so important in Western history and culture? A genealogical critique of biophysical and political-economic explanations

Robert M. Chiles, Amy J. Fitzgerald, 2018, Agriculture and Human Values

“Taking back the narrative” - A dialogue with Food Justice Detroit’s Renee Wallace about culture change, consciousness, and compost

Gretel Van Wieren, Steven Rachman, Robert Chiles, Tiffany Tsantsoulas, 2018, Public Philosophy Journal on p. 1-9

Getting Wasted: Going beyond ‘agrarian vs. industrial’ and moving towards a new food ethics

Stephen Rachman, Tiffany Tsantsoulas, Robert Chiles, Gretel Van Wieren, Renee Wallace, 2018, Public Philosophy Journal on p. 15

Most-Cited Papers

If they come, we will build it

Robert Magneson Chiles, 2013, Agriculture and Human Values on p. 511-523

Intertwined ambiguities

Robert M. Chiles, 2013, Journal of Consumer Behaviour on p. 472-482

Why is meat so important in Western history and culture? A genealogical critique of biophysical and political-economic explanations

Robert M. Chiles, Amy J. Fitzgerald, 2018, Agriculture and Human Values

Hidden in Plain Sight

Robert Magneson Chiles, 2017, Sociologia Ruralis on p. 791-815

Food System Fragility and Resilience in the Aftermath of Disruption and Controversy

Robert M. Chiles, 2016, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics on p. 1021-1042

Agri-food firms, universities, and corporate social responsibility

Robert M. Chiles, Leland Glenna, Amit Sharma, Jeffrey Catchmark, C. Daniel Azzara, Audrey Maretzki, 2018, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems on p. 1--11