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.