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Sensing safety in Singapore, 1900-2015
Food safety has material, symbolic, experiential, and sensory elements that create ways of thinking and acting, resulting in knowledge that is embedded in institutional practices and discourses. This knowledge — contextual, contested, and changing — shapes the discourse and practice around the perception and regulation of food safety. Taking the city-state of Singapore as an example, this paper draws together elements of food safety discursive practice, culturally and temporally specific symbols of safety, with its sensory experience to show how governmental, cultural, and private actors have worked across the Singaporean food system to create “senses of safety.”
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Publication title
Food, Culture, and SocietyVolume
21Pagination
164-179ISSN
1552-8014Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
Copyright 2018 Association for the Study of Food and SocietyRepository Status
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