Food-buying Habits in Hanoi

Jensen, Rolf; Peppard, Donald M.

doi:10.1355/sj22-2d

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“…Research conducted in Vietnam demonstrates the importance of traditional vending systems and focuses mainly upon specific parts of the retail system -e.g. on street vending (Jensen and Peppard, 2007), on supermarket development (Maruyama and Trung, 2012), on wet markets (Geertman, 2011), on implications of supermarket development for poor consumers (Figuié and Moustier, 2009), or describe the food system transformation through a demand analysis (Mergenthaler et al, 2009).…”

Section: A Social Practices Approach To Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constrained consumer practices and food safety concerns in Hanoi

Wertheim-Heck

Vellema

Spaargaren

2014

Int J Consumer Studies

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Food safety is a widely recognized concern in Vietnam. Public officials, companies and consumers find different ways to address risks of pesticide residues and bacterial contamination related to the use of fresh vegetables in daily diets. The response of the government to these food safety risks includes the modernization and regulation of the food retail system. However, reforms that aim to offer a controlled and predictable provision of fresh vegetables through supermarkets seem to contrast with the daily consumer practices in a dynamic city as Hanoi; over 95% of vegetables is still being purchased at long-established open-air markets, importantly the informal and unhygienic street markets. Using a practices theory approach, this paper aims to explain this persistence of street-market shopping for vegetables. Detailed accounts of consumer practices, case studies at different retailing sites and daily logbooks of consumers demonstrate that the way consumers cope with food safety risks is largely shaped by the temporal and spatial constraints of their daily shopping practices. We identified how vegetable shopping is either enjoyed as social interaction within the local community or is regarded a time-consuming activity that conflicts with other activities in everyday life. Our findings indicate how these constraints constitute a reinforcing mechanism for the persistence of uncontrolled and unhygienic street markets. To make policy responses to food safety risks both more realistic and effective, it is essential to connect to and accommodate the daily realities of consumers managing time and space in a modernizing city rather than to impose an ideal, typical market exclusively driven by the wish to control food safety risks.

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Section: A Social Practices Approach To Consumptionmentioning

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Constrained consumer practices and food safety concerns in Hanoi

Wertheim-Heck

Vellema

Spaargaren

2014

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…In the first are perspectives dating back to the 1970s that characterize most street vendors as poorly educated, predominantly engaged in micro‐scale food preparation catering to the urban poor and surviving at a subsistence level (McGee & Yeung, 1977). The bottom line is that street‐vending generates wafer‐thin profits – as reflected in case studies of Bangkok (Nirathron, 2006), Hanoi and Vung Tao in Vietnam (Jensen & Peppard, 2007; Walsh, 2010), Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Ulaanbatar, Edernet and Darhan in Mongolia (Kusakabe, 2006), and various cities in Indonesia (Yatmo, 2008). Vendors are seen as vulnerable, often passive, groups in the face of market change and harassment from powerful players (e.g.…”

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“…Distinct from the traditional vendor community in terms of socioeconomic background and business outlook, the new cohort challenge the conventional view of street vendors in developing South and Southeast Asia as being domestic migrants, mostly women, and usually surviving on subsistence wages (e.g. Kusakabe, 2006;Nirathron, 2006;Jensen & Peppard, 2007;Yatmo, 2008;Walsh, 2010). These 'new generation' entrepreneurs utilize information technology and contemporary business techniques such as branding and franchizing, and target niche or middle to upper income markets (Rupkamdee et al, 2005;Walsh & Maneepong, 2007;Maneepong & Walsh, 2008).…”

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After the 1997 financial crisis in Bangkok: The behaviour and implications of a new cohort of street vendors

Walsh

Maneepong

2012

Singap J Trop Geogr

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After the 1997 financial crisis, many retrenched workers preferred not to return to provincial homes but remained in Bangkok to establish informal retail businesses in branded and other consumer products. In contrast to traditional street vendors, who specialized in food items primarily catering for low‐income customers, and focused on high volume, these ‘new generation’ street vendors also adopted more formal business practices. Given their greater sophistication and better education, we hypothesized that they would be more organized advocates of vendors' rights and thus more prone to conflicts with municipal authorities. Based on interviews, however, we found that new generation vendors are adaptive to location and business strategy, and prefer a low profile in dealing with officialdom. By contrast, traditional vendors remained more tied to particular spaces, are more likely to stand up for their rights to use public space and, because they expect more from government, are more prone to conflicts with municipal authorities. Our findings relate to ongoing discussion on the rights and needs of street vendors to access urban public space and the responsibilities of authorities to meet and provide for these informal sector livelihoods that make up a significant share of the national economy in Thailand, as elsewhere in the global South.

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“…From sociolinguistic perspective, other studies reveal rules and patterns of Vietnamese politeness in the practices of linguistic forms including addressing others, making a request and the likes (Chew, 2011;Nguyen & Ho, 2014;Nguyen & Le Ho, 2013;1997). Besides those studies on linguistic practices, other daily interaction patterns explored in recent years such as food-buying habits and exchanges (Jensen & Peppard, 2007;Thi Hong Nguyen, Wood, & Wrigley, 2013;Wertheim Heck, Vellema, & Spaargaren, 2014), the use of social capital in interpersonal transactions for example, gift-giving (Luong, 2007) also help to draw academic attentions to "everyday life" as a significant area of knowledge in its own right. In this line, the current paper, deriving from the sociological perspective, aims to clarify the connection between Vietnamese micro life and macro structure.…”

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Daily Deference Rituals and Social Hierarchy in Vietnam

Nguyen‐Trung¹

2016

ASS

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Since Doi Moi (i.e. the Renovation) in 1986, Vietnam has substantially transformed its society from one of the poorest countries into a middle-income country. The socio-economic reforms have led academics to the focus on studying macro problems such as economic reform, weak government, civil society or social inequality. In the mean time, the investigation of micro aspects presented in everyday life has been often neglected. The presentation of everyday life, however, is essential to understand social structure in general. This paper employs the concept of "deference rituals" developed by Erving Goffman to investigate the ways Vietnamese people address others, give them exclamations, and perform salutation rituals in their day-to-day life. By doing so, the paper aims to answer the question that why it is functional for society that those deference rituals are carried out; and what their performance does accomplish for maintenance of social interaction order. The paper finds out that although these small rituals are usually considered as mundane forms, their displays serve to help Vietnamese participants show their respect to and readiness to comply with the wishes of the seniors, ensuring the stability of a hierarchical order.

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Food-buying Habits in Hanoi

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Constrained consumer practices and food safety concerns in Hanoi

Constrained consumer practices and food safety concerns in Hanoi

After the 1997 financial crisis in Bangkok: The behaviour and implications of a new cohort of street vendors

Daily Deference Rituals and Social Hierarchy in Vietnam

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