Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World

Contributors

217 CONTRIBUTORS nir avieli is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel, and a cultural anthropologist interested mainly in food and tourism. He has been conducting anthropological fieldwork in the central Vietnamese town of Hoi An since 1998 and has conducted ethnographic research in Thailand, India, Singapore, and Israel. His book, Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town (Indiana University Press, 2012), is a culinary ethnography of Hoi An. Nir conducted ethnographic research in Thailand, India, Singapore, and Israel. Nir convened the International Conference on “Food, Power, and Meaning in the Middle East and Mediterranean,” held at Ben Gurion University in June 2010. renatablumbergisaPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofGeography,Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation analyzes the relationship between rural livelihoods and alternative food networks in Latvia and Lithuania, as well as their embeddedness within the multiscalar policy context of the European Union. She has an MS in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis, where she studied sustainable agriculture, and a BA in Anthropology from Columbia College, Columbia University. melissa l. caldwell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Co-Director of the University of California Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body. She is also the editor of Gastronomica . Her work focuses on the role of food in political processes in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. She has written on food nationalism, culinary tourism ,gardeningandnaturalfoods,andthesocialexperienceofhungerandfoodassistance. Her new research examines the shifting terrain of science and art in food, with particular attention to molecular gastronomy and food hacking. She is the author of Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia’s Countryside (University of California Press, 2011), Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia (University of California Press, 218 . contributors 2004), editor of Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World (Indiana University Press, 2009), and co-editor with James L. Watson of The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating (Blackwell, 2004). yuson jung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University(Detroit,MI).Herresearchexploresissuesofconsumption,food,globalization , postsocialism, and European integration. She is completing a book manuscript entitled “Balkan Blues: Everyday Consumption and the Poverty of the State” based on ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria, and has been studying the cultural politics of wine to examine the intersection of global food politics and transnational governance from the perspectives of Bulgarian wine producers. Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Food, Culture, and Society , and as chapters in several edited volumes (Wine and Culture, ed. R. Black and R. Ulin, Bloomsbury, 2013; Food and Everyday Life in the Post-Socialist World, ed. M. Caldwell, Indiana University Press, 2009). jakob a. klein is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and Deputy Chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. Focusing on China, he has carriedoutresearchonethicalfoodmovements ,regionalcuisines,andlocalspecialtyfoods. Klein’s publications include Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China, co-edited with K. Latham and S. Thompson (Routledge, 2006); “‘For Eating, It’s Guangzhou’: Regional Culinary Traditions and Chinese Socialism,” in Enduring Socialism, ed. H.G. West and P. Raman (Berghahn Books, 2009); “Everyday Approaches to Food Safety in Kunming,” China Quarterly 214 (2013); and, coauthored with H.G. West and J. Pottier, “New Directions in the Anthropology of Food,” in The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology, ed. R. Fardon et al. (SAGE, 2012). dianamincyteisAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofSocialSciencesattheCity University of New York, NYC College of Technology, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Social Sciences at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Mincyte ’s research examines environmental and justice dimensions of agrifood systems, particularly in the contexts of postsocialist Eastern Europe. Entitled Raw Milk, Raw Power: The Politics of Subsistence and Sustainability, her book examines the implementation of sustainable food politics in Europeanizing Lithuania to track the emergence of new economic subjectivities and state control over political and ecological domains in postindustrial societies. Her second research project focuses on standards of living and poverty measurements from a comparative-historical perspective. Mincyte’s research has been published in Sociologia Ruralis, Agriculture and Human Values, Environment and Planning D, and Slavic Review, among others, and in several edited volumes. ellenoxfeldisProfessorofAnthropologyatMiddleburyCollege.Sheisalsotheauthor of Blood, Sweat and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (Cornell University Press, 1993), which won the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration, and “Drink Water, but Remember...