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 distrib...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ehlert, Judith (Editor), Faltmann, Nora Katharina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
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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.