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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 networks that have
become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the
eating body centre stage by following how gendered body norms, food
taboos, power structures and social differentiation shape people's
ambivalent relations with food. It uncovers Vietnam's trajectories
of agricultural modernisation against which consumers and producers
manoeuvre amongst food self-sufficiency, security and abundance.
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam is explicitly about 'dangerous'
food - regarding its materiality and meaning. It provides social
science perspectives on anxieties related to food and surrounding
discourses that travel between the local and the global, the
individual and society and into the body. Therefore, the book's
lens of food anxiety matters for social theory and for
understanding the embeddedness and discontinuities of food
globalizations in Vietnam and beyond. Due to its rich empirical
base, methodological approaches and thematic foci, it will appeal
to scholars, practitioners and students alike.
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