Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam

Judith Ehlert is a sociologist and holds a postdoctoral position at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.Nora Katharina Faltmann is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

• 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.