Meina Jia Sandal
Biographic Data
| ID | 206052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meina Jia Sandal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meina Jia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandal |
| SIGNATURE | SANDAL M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1813-5117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Money, morality, and mobility among Chinese surrogate shoppers in Denmark
The practice of daigou (代购, literally meaning buying on behalf of) is a transnational, network-based, and largely feminized form of surrogate shopping that connects Chinese consumers with overseas buyers for items ranging from everyday necessities to luxury goods. This practice has developed into a significant grey market due to years of insufficient regulation. Despite ongoing legal debates, daigou remains a favoured business among Chinese immig…
Feeding Chinese Infants with Danish formula
Chinese parents have increasingly turned to foreign infant formula following a series of milk powder scandals in the mid-2000s, leading to the rise of daigou, an informal transnational business channel that provides access to overseas products. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly constrained this "grey market". Drawing on two periods of ethnographic research in Denmark and China from 2018 to 2022, this article explores h…
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
Episodic mistrust and selective system trust
This article contributes to comparative anthropological theory by analyzing the conceptual dynamics of episodic mistrust and selective system trust that emerge from ethnographic cases. Following the cue from recent studies that cast mistrust as a productive category in its own right, we explore this idea in the context of a complex modern society suffering from recurrent food safety scandals. We study how people in China allay anxieties about the…
Money, morality, and mobility among Chinese surrogate shoppers in Denmark
The practice of daigou (代购, literally meaning buying on behalf of) is a transnational, network-based, and largely feminized form of surrogate shopping that connects Chinese consumers with overseas buyers for items ranging from everyday necessities to luxury goods. This practice has developed into a significant grey market due to years of insufficient regulation. Despite ongoing legal debates, daigou remains a favoured business among Chinese immig…
Feeding Chinese Infants with Danish formula
Chinese parents have increasingly turned to foreign infant formula following a series of milk powder scandals in the mid-2000s, leading to the rise of daigou, an informal transnational business channel that provides access to overseas products. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly constrained this "grey market". Drawing on two periods of ethnographic research in Denmark and China from 2018 to 2022, this article explores h…
China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (1 works) · China (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Danish (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (1 works) · Ideology (1 works) · Infant formula (1 works)