Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam.

• Author: Ehlert, Judith.
• TeilnehmendeR: Faltmann, Nora Katharina.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)

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.