Islam, Standards, and Technoscience

In Global Halal Zones

Johan Fischer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95418-2 (ISBN)

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Halal (literally, "permissible" or "lawful") production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two countries a special position in the rapidly expanding global market for halal products: in these nations state bodies certify halal products as well as spaces (shops, factories, and restaurants) and work processes, and so consumers can find state halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world. Building on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe, this book provides an exploration of the role of halal production, trade, and standards. Fischer explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge. Focusing on the "bigger institutional picture" that frames everyday halal consumption, Fischer provides a multisited ethnography of the overlapping technologies and techniques of production, trade, and standards that together warrant a product as "halal," and thereby help to format the market. Exploring global halal in networks, training, laboratories, activism, companies, shops and restaurants, this book will be an essential resource to scholars and students of social science interested in the global interface zones between religion, standards, and technoscience.

Johan Fischer is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University.

Introduction: Halal Between Islam, Standards, and Technoscience 1. In the Halal Zones of Malaysia and Singapore 2. Global Halal Networks 3. Halal Training 4. In the Halal Lab 5. Halal Activism 6. Manufacturing Companies 7. Shops and Restaurants. Conclusion.

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-138-95418-7 / 1138954187
ISBN-13	978-1-138-95418-2 / 9781138954182
Zustand	Neuware