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 individualand 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.
