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Risky Eating: Shanghai Families’ Strategies to Acquire Safe Food in Everyday Life
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Abstract Resourceful parents and grandparents in Shanghai go a long way in search of safe and healthy food for the children of their families. From an ethnographical perspective, this article delves into the risk of eating in everyday family life in urban China, and it investigates the complexity of navigati... view more
Resourceful parents and grandparents in Shanghai go a long way in search of safe and healthy food for the children of their families. From an ethnographical perspective, this article delves into the risk of eating in everyday family life in urban China, and it investigates the complexity of navigating the urban food market and trusting advice from Internet sources, mommy groups, friends, and family members in order to avoid often incomprehensible health risks posed by polluted or chemically treated foods. It describes how family caregivers feel a moral obligation of doing their best to handle food risks in everyday life, and how they exchange practical knowledge in private networks. It argues that food risks are tackled with individual strategies aiming towards a feeling of peace of mind (fangxin), and that buying, preparing, and eating safe food is a moral issue within the family.... view less
Classification
Sociology of Economics
Free Keywords
risk; morality; strategies; trust; children's food
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 262-280
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48 (2019) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed