Mittwoch, 03. Mai 2017, 16:15 - 17:45 iCal

ie.talks mit Nora Faltmann am 03.05.2017

Organic Consumption in Urban Vietnam: A Matter of Food Anxiety and Consumer Agency

Institut für Internationale Entwicklung / Seminarraum IE, Afrikawissenschaften
Spitalgasse 2/Hof 5, 1090 Wien

Vortrag

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Explicitly advertised organic food is a rather new phenomenon in Vietnam. Unlike the early rise of organic consumption and lifestyle elsewhere, empirical research indicates that environmental concerns are not a rationale for organic consumption in urban Vietnam. Rather, the motivation for consuming organic has to be viewed in the context of widely debated food safety issues in present-day Vietnam. Accordingly, anxiety towards what people incorporate into their bodies states a major societal health concern, to which organic consumption becomes one reaction. Yet despite high demands for perceived safe food, organic is a high-priced niche market only accessible to a specific clientele. Based on empirical research in Ho Chi Minh City, the presentation analyses organic consumption in the context of food safety and uses it as a lens to understand questions of social access and exclusion in a country characterized by rapidly growing social disparities and the fierce modernization of the agriculture and food system.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Internationale Entwicklung

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Kontakt

Johannes Korak
Universität Wien
Institut für Internationale Entwicklung
0123917
johannes.korak@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Mittwoch, 26. April 2017, 19:02
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 27. April 2017, 08:25