scholarly journals Metabolising Risk: Food Scares and the Un/Re-Making of Belgian Beef

10.1068/a3513 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Stassart ◽  
Sarah J Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Meat Products ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Knowledge Claims

In this paper we explore the event of foodscares as an example of what Callon calls ‘hot situations’, in which the landscape of competing knowledge claims is at its most molten, and alternative production and consumption practices galvanise new modes of sense-making against the market and state-sanctioned rationalities of industrialisation. Through a case study of the Belgian cooperative Coprosain and its meat products, we examine the ‘stuff’ of food as a ready messenger of connectedness and affectivity in which ‘risk’ is transacted as a property both of the growing distance between the spaces of production and consumption and of the enduring metabolic intimacies between human and nonhuman bodies.

scholarly journals The Mapping of Halal Critical Points in the Process of Distribution Chain of Chicken Meat Products in West Java (Case Study: Traditional Slaughtering House in Y Chicken House West Java)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Dwi Purnomo ◽  
Totok Pujianto ◽  
Anas Bunyamin ◽  
Prayudha Surya Lesmana
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Chicken Meat ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
West Java ◽  
Production And Consumption

Chicken meat is one of the most popularly consumed meat in Indonesia, particularly in West Java, according to the socio-economic research and chicken meat production in 2013 issued by the Official of Animal Husbandry West Java. The consumption of chicken meat each year reaches 3.6 kg. Cognizant that the population of Moslems is up to 99.67%, each production and consumption of meat has to fulfill the requirements of its halalan tayyiban (considered good and permitted according to the Islamic syaria law). Speaking of which, a number of activities directly concerning on its halal or haram, later called the halal critical point. This point produces variables and factors that affect both the halal and the haram of the chicken meat. The use of resource referred is to simplify the description of the existing variables and factors. The research method is that which explores the chain of chicken meat production supply. The result of this research is the mapping of the halal critical point, and the measurement in the form of scoring to slaughterhouse and market with the help of experts using AHP. Thus, it could be concluded that the most critical points lurk within the semi-modern slaughterhouse activities, while traditional slaughterhouse has fewer critical points. In the scoring results, the fulfillment of the scores is gained more in semi-modern slaughterhouses as well as modern markets than in that of traditional. Keywords: Halal Critical Point; Chicken Meat; Supply Chain; Mapping; Halalan Tayyiban

scholarly journals Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement

2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042097866
Author(s):  
William McGowan ◽  
Elizabeth A Cook
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Traumatic Bereavement ◽  
Relative Potential ◽  
Corresponding Analysis

The first half of this article provides a brief overview of two respective projects concerning traumatic bereavement, in which religious faith appeared to feature amid a constellation of significant coping and sense-making mechanisms for survivors. After presenting some illustrative examples of the kind of data produced in the course of our research, the second half of the article develops a retrospectively critical appraisal of our data collection and corresponding analysis practices. In questioning the extent to which our accounts of our participants’ accounts can be considered adequate representations of social order, we critically explore the relative potential of ‘reflexivity’ for bridging the experiential gap between researchers and participants. Taken together, these reflections prompt a return to the salutary question: what counts as sociologically ‘see-able’?

scholarly journals Stated Preferences for Plant-Based and Cultured Meat: A Choice Experiment Study of Spanish Consumers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8235
Author(s):  
Alfredo J. Escribano ◽  
Maria Belen Peña ◽  
Carlos Díaz-Caro ◽  
Ahmed Elghannam ◽  
Eva Crespo-Cebada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Experiment Study ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Cultured Meat ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Negative Impacts

Meat production and consumption have been claimed to have negative impacts on the environment, and even on the consumer’s health. In this sense, alternative sources of protein, mainly meat substitutes and cultured meat, have emerged due to those perceived negative effects. Our paper carries out a choice experiment to analyze the preferences of 444 Spanish consumers and their willingness to pay for plant-based and cultured meats, as compared to conventional meat. Spain was considered of interest for this study due to its significant gastronomic culture, with high-quality meat products that make a great contribution to the economy, meaning that this could be a suitable and also challenging market in which to test alternative sources of protein. The findings show that consumers’ motivations and their interactions with these products are complex. Additionally, a cluster analysis allowed us to identify three types of consumers in terms of preference for these products: price-sensitive millennials, conscious/concerned consumers, and indifferent consumers. Only one group showed some level of acceptance of these alternative products meats.

Film Production and Consumption in Contemporary Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Feng Mon
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
And Control ◽  
Depth Interviews

This book uses the potent case study of contemporary Taiwanese queer romance films to address the question of how capitalism in Taiwan has privileged the film industry at the expense of the audience's freedom to choose and respond to culture on its own terms. Interweaving in-depth interviews with filmmakers, producers, marketers, and spectators, Ya-Fong Mon takes a biopolitical approach to the question, showing how the industry uses investments in techno-science, ancillary marketing, and media convergence to seduce and control the sensory experience of the audience-yet that control only extends so far: volatility remains a key component of the film-going experience.

Minimum-wage Connoisseurship and Everyday Boundary Maintenance: Brewing Inequality in Third Wave Coffee

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-491
Author(s):  
Brian Ott
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Niche Markets ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Boundary Maintenance ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Specialty Coffee ◽  
Additional Payment

The shift from Fordism to post-Fordism in the United States introduced vast changes to production and consumption practices. In contrast to the commercial enterprises of Fordism, the post-Fordist economy relies on fast-changing tastes and small, niche markets along with new cultural forms for inducing consumption and anchoring identities. This article focuses on the specialty (or “third wave”) coffee industry, where coffee is treated similarly to wine, which I argue is emblematic of a post-Fordist economy. Relying on data collected from over a year of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that the specialty coffee industry represents a qualitative shift in the coffee industry, one that produces a new niche market and consumer base that commoditizes sensory experiences as embodied class dispositions. I argue that baristas perform a kind of labor that I term “minimum-wage connoisseurship,” where they receive minimum wage (and tips) along with additional payment in cultural and social capital that elevates their status as well as manufacture’s consent for dedicating their time, in and outside of work, and their bodies to the organization.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CONCEPT OF SHARED VALUE AND THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TWO SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Inge de Wet ◽  
de Kock Imke
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Scientific Networks ◽  
Environmentally Friendly Production

The role of the technologies, concepts, and philosophies associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been argued to hold significant value in the quest for sustainability. Furthermore, the concept of ‘shared value’ has been put forward as an approach that holds significant value when aiming to bring about socially just, economically fair, and environmentally friendly production and consumption practices. The importance of the link between the concept of shared value and 4IR is explored in this paper using bibliometric analysis, and we expose the different structures of these fields, including keywords, key authors, and the coherence of these two scientific networks in order to uncover areas of integration between them. The findings of this analysis indicate that a clear gap in integration exists; and the opportunity for research in this field could further contribute to the debate on using innovative, contemporary technologies — such as those associated with 4IR — to support approaches to ensure increasingly sustainable business practices, such as shared value.

scholarly journals The Production and Consumption of Cultural Villages in South Africa: A Decolonial Epistemic Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Ndlovu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Epistemic Perspective

While many of the peoples who exist in the ‘spatio-temporal’ construct known as the postcolonial world today are convinced that they have succeeded – through anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles – to defeat colonial domination, the majority of the people of the same part of the world have not yet reaped the freedoms which they aimed to achieve. The question that emerges out of the failure to realise the objectives of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles by the people of the Third World after a number of years of absence of juridical-administrative colonial and apartheid systems is to what extent did the people who sought to dethrone colonial domination understand the complexity of the colonial system? And to what end did the ability and/or inability to master the complexity of the colonial system affect the process of decolonization? Through the case study of the production and consumption of cultural villages in South Africa, this article deploys a de-colonial epistemic perspective to reveal, within the context of tourism studies, the complexity of the colonial system and why a truly decolonized postcolonial world has so far eluded the people of the developing world.

Tilapia cage farming in Lake Taal, Batangas, Philippines.

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Farmed Fish ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Rural Aquaculture ◽  
Aquaculture Development

Abstract This case study was prepared as part of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Special Evaluation Study (SES) on Small-Scale Freshwater Rural Aquaculture Development. In the context of the SES, this case study used primary and secondary data and published information to document the human, social, natural, physical and financial capital available to households involved in the production and consumption of freshwater farmed fish and to identify channels through which the poor are affected. The history, biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional characteristics of Lake Taal, Batangas, Philippines are described, followed by accounts of the technology and management used for tilapia cage farming and nursery operations, with detailed profiles of fish farmers and other beneficiaries. Transforming processes are then discussed with respect to markets, labour, institutions, support services, policy, legal instruments, natural resources and their management and environmental issues. Main outcomes, conclusions and implications for poverty alleviation are then summarized.

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