SinoNet: VORTRAG / Dr. Anna Boermel (King´s College London) / 25.11.2013

[Martina Eory]

Liebe KollegInnen und Kollegen,

 

sehr gerne möchten wir Sie zu folgendem Vortrag einladen:

 

 
Dr. Anna Boermel (King’s College London)

Selling and buying fresh vegetables in Beijing: Food, space and well-being
in a Chinese megacity

25.11.2013, Sin 2, 12.15-13.45 Uhr

 

This paper seeks to examine the complex relationships between urban society
and the urban environment by analysing the quotidian retail and consumption
of fresh vegetables in Beijing.  

Food retail in cities is a prime example of the interdependence between the
urban and the rural, as it sheds light on the movement of people, rural
migrants whose labour is absolutely critical to the food supply chain, and
material goods, i.e. fresh food. Since the beginning of the reform era in
the late 1970s Beijing’s population has greatly increased. As the city has
grown, urban food security has emerged as a critical development issue. More
outlets for food sales have been set up and rural-urban and transnational
linkages to bring increasing quantities of food to Beijing consumers have
been enhanced. In addition to quantity, quality has also become a source of
great concern to many Beijing residents in the wake of numerous food safety
scandals. Based on extensive anthropological field research, this paper
analyses the panoply of retail spaces that dot the urban landscape: large
outdoor morning markets, local and foreign supermarkets, an occasional
farmers’ market, and two organic farms on the outskirts of the city. The
paper not only shows that concerns about price, quality, food safety and
accessibility as well as factors such as age, gender, and class shape the
complex relationships between urban consumers and the urban environment in
this rapidly changing mega-city but also raises wider questions about space,
well-being and transnational links.  


Short bio:
Dr. Anna Boermel holds degrees in Chinese Studies (BA) and Social
Anthropology (MPhil and DPhil) from the University of Oxford. Before joining
King’s College London she was Departmental Lecturer in the Politics and
Society of Modern China at the University of Oxford and Research and
Teaching Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Society at the University of
Cambridge. She has spent over three years conducting research in urban
China.  Her research interests include demographic change, governance and
environment and health in urban China. 

 

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