Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehlert, Judith.
Other Authors: Faltmann, Nora Katharina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Boxes
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1: Food Anxiety: Ambivalences Around Body and Identity, Food Safety, and Security
  • Food in Globalising Vietnam
  • From the Productivist Gaze to the 'Fruits' of Consumption
  • The Transgressive Nature of Food: Conceptualising Food Anxiety
  • Part I-Bodily Transgressions: Identity, Othering, and Self
  • Part II-Food Safety: Trust, Responsibilisation, and Coping
  • Part III-The Politics of Food Security
  • References
  • Part I: Bodily Transgressions: Identity, Othering, and Self
  • 2: Power Struggles and Social Positioning: Culinary Appropriation and Anxiety in Colonial Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Culinary Accommodations Before the French Conquest
  • The French Conquest and Chopstick Challenges
  • French Resistance to Cross-Cultural Cuisine
  • Culinary Tensions in the Colonial Countryside
  • Chinese Compradores Coping in a Vietnamese Setting
  • Ambition and Anxiety About New Urban Foods
  • Wartime Anxieties About Food and Power
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3: Forbidden from the Heart: Flexible Food Taboos, Ambiguous Culinary Transgressions, and Cultural Intimacy in Hoi An, Vietnam
  • Quán Nhậu (Rice Liquor Shops): Sites of Transgression
  • Meat, Spiciness, and Masculinity
  • He-Goat Meat
  • Jungle Meat
  • Culinary Ambivalence and Cultural Intimacy
  • References
  • 4: Obesity, Biopower, and Embodiment of Caring: Foodwork and Maternal Ambivalences in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Introduction
  • Biopower, Obesity, and Maternal Caring
  • Biopower Over Eating Bodies
  • Obesity, Public Health, and the Economy of Caring in Vietnam
  • The Dominant Mothering Discourse
  • Biopower and the Embodiment of Caring
  • Embodiment of Motherhood (Discourses): The Milk of Love.
  • Body Ideals in Children: 'When the Dog Is Too Skinny, the Owner Should Feel Ashamed'
  • Feeding Practices: Between 'Raising Pigs' and Self-Determined Eating Subjects
  • Normalisation of Bodies Growing(-up)
  • Conclusion: Ambivalent Maternal Foodwork
  • References
  • Video
  • Part II: Food Safety: Trust, Responsibilisation, and Coping
  • 5: Trust and Food Modernity in Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Food Systems, Distanciation, and Quality in the Light of Modernity
  • Food Systems and Food Modernity
  • "Distanciation", a Challenge for the Modern Eater
  • Assessing the Safety of Food: A Matter of Convention
  • Evolution of the Food System in the Vietnamese Context
  • A Food System Under Modernization
  • Food Scandals and Crises As Signs of Late Modernity
  • Trust in Food in Vietnam
  • Food Anxiety Among Consumers
  • Building Trust in the Vietnamese Food System
  • Food Selection in Traditional Markets
  • Supermarket Development, a New Qualification Process
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6: Between Food Safety Concerns and Responsibilisation: Organic Food Consumption in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Food in (Urban) Vietnam
  • A System in Transition
  • Consumer Discourse in Vietnam
  • Development of Organic Sectors in Global and Local Contexts
  • Organic in Global Contexts: A Brief Overview
  • Foreign Influences Behind Vietnam's Organic Development
  • Vietnamese Perspectives on Organic Agriculture
  • HCMC's Organic Food Sphere
  • Organic Food Consumption in HCMC
  • Organic Consumption for Environmental Concerns?
  • Health &amp
  • Food Safety
  • Pivotal Moments Towards Organic Consumption: The Centrality of Responsibility
  • Summarising Remarks: Organic Food Consumption as Individualised Responses to Food Safety Concerns
  • Conclusion: Questions of Responsibilisation and Food Anxiety in Vietnam's Organic Sector
  • References.
  • 7: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains: Reassessing Images of the Urban and the Rural in Northern Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Urban Gardening
  • Agricultural Production in the City: Continuity and Change
  • Gardening in Private Space
  • Gardening in Public Space
  • Gardening: Transgressing the Boundaries between Private and Public
  • Rural Practices in Urban Space
  • Rural-Urban Supply Chains
  • Reassessing Images of the Rural and the Urban in Vietnam
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: The Politics of Food Security
  • 8: From Food Crisis to Agrarian Crisis? Food Security Strategy and Rural Livelihoods in Vietnam
  • Defining the Crisis and Framing the Response: "National Food Security" in a Vietnamese Context
  • Food Security as Rice Security
  • Food Security as Food Output and Abundance
  • "National" Food Security as Self-Sufficiency in Rice
  • Food Security as Political Imperative
  • From Food Crisis to Agrarian Crisis: Self-Sufficiency at What Cost?
  • Policy Initiatives: From Conceptualization to Implementation
  • From Intervention to Impact: Food Security Policy and Agrarian Transition in Bạc Liêu
  • Conclusion: From Food Crisis to Agrarian Crisis?
  • References
  • 9: When Food Crosses Borders: Paradigm Shifts in China's Food Sectors and Implications for Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Paradigm Shift in China's Overall Food Security Strategy
  • Boosting Domestic Food Production and Global Consequences
  • Agriculture Goes Global
  • Major Changes in Chinese Food Consumption Patterns
  • Moving Away from Grains
  • A Widening Dichotomy in Food Consumption Patterns
  • Implications for Vietnam
  • Formal and "Informal" Agricultural and Food Trade
  • Investment, Agricultural Technologies, and Fishery
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 10: Concluding Remarks: Anxiety as Invariant of Human Relation to Food
  • Food and "Compressed Modernity".
  • Compressed Food Modernity in Vietnam
  • The Contribution of the Food Anxiety Paradigm
  • Anxiety and the Ambivalences of Human Diet
  • Anxiety as Erosion of the Modes of Management of Ambivalences in Human Diet
  • Risk and Anxiety
  • References.