Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Food Anxiety: Ambivalences around Body and Identity, Food Safety, and Security
- Part I – Bodily Transgressions: Identity, Othering, and Self
- 1 Power Struggles and Social Positioning: Culinary Appropriation and Anxiety in Colonial Vietnam
- 2 Forbidden from the Heart: Flexible Food Taboos, Ambiguous Culinary Transgressions, and Cultural Intimacy in Hoi An, Vietnam
- 3 Obesity, Biopower and Embodiment of Caring: Foodwork and Maternal Ambivalences in Ho Chi Minh City
- Part II – Food Safety: Trust, Responsibilisation, and Coping
- 4 Trust and Food Modernity in Vietnam
- 5 Between Food Safety Concerns and Responsibilisation: Organic Food Consumption in Ho Chi Minh City
- 6 Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains – Reassessing Images of the Urban and the Rural in Northern Vietnam
- Part III – The Politics of Food Security
- 7 From Food Crisis to Agrarian Crisis? Food Security Strategy and Rural Livelihoods in Vietnam
- 8 When Food Crosses Borders: Paradigm Shifts in China’s Food Sectors and Implications for Vietnam
- Conclusion