A Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1578-1463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Brewing the Global Shift
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing significant restructuring, there has been little academic attention to these transformations. In this article, the focus is on Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand to analyse how global and regional lead firms adapt to changing competition…
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes
Towards plantification
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
Feeding a tourism boom
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the literature on food and tourism in Asia, little attention has been given to the experiences of host populations. Responding to this lacuna in the literature, this paper analyses how a tourism boom is fed and how tourism-driven “foodway encounters” shape fo…
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi
Vietnam's embrace of the Leninist-capitalist hybrid known as the socialist market economy has led to a number of food transformations. These include increasing food imports, heavy investment by powerful domestic and foreign actors in food production and retailing, and the scaling up of domestic agriculture, as well as a range of problematic dietary changes. In an urban food scene that is tremendously rich in the number and diversity of its food s…
It's just pølse’
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Decision-making, contextual intelligence, maximum oxygenconsumption and explosive strength in futsal players during Covid-19
La presente investigacin busc determinar la relacin entre el consumo mximo de oxgeno, la fuerza explosiva, la toma de decisiones y la inteligencia contextual en deportistas de ftbol sala durante el aislamiento por Covid-19. Estudio descriptivo, realizado con 30 deportistas de futbol sala de la ciudad de Popayn durante el confinamiento por Covid-19, en donde se evalu las caractersticas de entrenamiento, el ndice de masa corporal, la capacidad aerb…
Practical aeromobilities
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it co…
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations
Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary greatly, but there is widespread agreement that demand from new middle classes play a crucial role. Yet this demand is to a large extent co-created by systems of provision, and middle-class consumers are constantly navigating food transfo…
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
Geographies of meatification
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
Meat consumption and capitalist development
Hanoi on wheels
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes of Hanoi, the paper considers the changing practices and meanings of motorised mobility in Vietnam’s capitalist transition. It focuses on two main aspects: the everyday geography of the ‘system of moto-mobility’, and the ‘s…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around
The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is the ongoing shift in the balance of the global economy towards the South in general and the East in particular. As the ‘Rise of the South’ materialises, a number of emerging economies are moving beyond their roles as factories of…
The Frontiers of Poverty Reduction in Emerging Asia
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty (and extreme forms of it) continue to persist in the poorest countries of the world, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The other, which is the focus on this article, is to examine a set of factors or reforms that have worked in re…
Driving Development? The Problems and Promises of the Car in Vietnam
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an attempt to achieve industrial upgrading. Paradoxically, the government is simultaneously restraining the market for this industry through imposing high taxes and fees on cars, making them available only to a limited number of peopl…
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
While Vietnam’s developments since doi moi have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, we still know little about Vietnamese politics. With the deepening of economic reforms and increased p
Sociologie de l'énergie
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Transport in transition
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there are now 4 million motorbikes in Hanoi alone. While the two-wheelers dominate traffic, car ownership has increased rapidly in the last decade. This article approaches the consumption of cars and motorbikes in the Vietnamese cap…
Impostures in Early Modern England
This clear, detailed, and well-structured book marshals diverse materials in order to offer the ‘first full-scale analysis’ of what was a ‘multifaceted phenomenon’—thereby addressing the questions: ‘who was likely to be perceived as an impostor in early modern England, and why?’ (p. 1). Tobias Hug answers the questions through micro-histories, fleshing out lives of various impostors: these include William Fuller (1670–1733), who subsisted on the …
Aid Relationships in Asia
This book brings fresh perspectives into the debate on aid effectiveness and aid relationships. Asia provides a varied picture with its combination of rapidly developing countries where aid plays a less central role such as China, Vietnam, and Thailand as well as more aid dependent countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mongolia
Okonomisk voekst i Danmark, 1720-1970, I-II
Meat consumption and capitalist development
Geographies of meatification
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
Hanoi on wheels
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes of Hanoi, the paper considers the changing practices and meanings of motorised mobility in Vietnam’s capitalist transition. It focuses on two main aspects: the everyday geography of the ‘system of moto-mobility’, and the ‘s…
Transport in transition
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there are now 4 million motorbikes in Hanoi alone. While the two-wheelers dominate traffic, car ownership has increased rapidly in the last decade. This article approaches the consumption of cars and motorbikes in the Vietnamese cap…
Driving Development? The Problems and Promises of the Car in Vietnam
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an attempt to achieve industrial upgrading. Paradoxically, the government is simultaneously restraining the market for this industry through imposing high taxes and fees on cars, making them available only to a limited number of peopl…
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
While Vietnam’s developments since doi moi have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, we still know little about Vietnamese politics. With the deepening of economic reforms and increased p
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations
Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary greatly, but there is widespread agreement that demand from new middle classes play a crucial role. Yet this demand is to a large extent co-created by systems of provision, and middle-class consumers are constantly navigating food transfo…
It's just pølse’
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around
The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is the ongoing shift in the balance of the global economy towards the South in general and the East in particular. As the ‘Rise of the South’ materialises, a number of emerging economies are moving beyond their roles as factories of…
Practical aeromobilities
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it co…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Towards plantification
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Feeding a tourism boom
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the literature on food and tourism in Asia, little attention has been given to the experiences of host populations. Responding to this lacuna in the literature, this paper analyses how a tourism boom is fed and how tourism-driven “foodway encounters” shape fo…
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
The Frontiers of Poverty Reduction in Emerging Asia
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty (and extreme forms of it) continue to persist in the poorest countries of the world, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The other, which is the focus on this article, is to examine a set of factors or reforms that have worked in re…
Okonomisk voekst i Danmark, 1720-1970, I-II
Aid Relationships in Asia
This book brings fresh perspectives into the debate on aid effectiveness and aid relationships. Asia provides a varied picture with its combination of rapidly developing countries where aid plays a less central role such as China, Vietnam, and Thailand as well as more aid dependent countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka and Mongolia
Impostures in Early Modern England
This clear, detailed, and well-structured book marshals diverse materials in order to offer the ‘first full-scale analysis’ of what was a ‘multifaceted phenomenon’—thereby addressing the questions: ‘who was likely to be perceived as an impostor in early modern England, and why?’ (p. 1). Tobias Hug answers the questions through micro-histories, fleshing out lives of various impostors: these include William Fuller (1670–1733), who subsisted on the …
Sociologie de l'énergie
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Transport in transition
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there are now 4 million motorbikes in Hanoi alone. While the two-wheelers dominate traffic, car ownership has increased rapidly in the last decade. This article approaches the consumption of cars and motorbikes in the Vietnamese cap…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Staying Cool, Looking Good, Moving Around
The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is the ongoing shift in the balance of the global economy towards the South in general and the East in particular. As the ‘Rise of the South’ materialises, a number of emerging economies are moving beyond their roles as factories of…
The Frontiers of Poverty Reduction in Emerging Asia
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty (and extreme forms of it) continue to persist in the poorest countries of the world, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa. The other, which is the focus on this article, is to examine a set of factors or reforms that have worked in re…
Driving Development? The Problems and Promises of the Car in Vietnam
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an attempt to achieve industrial upgrading. Paradoxically, the government is simultaneously restraining the market for this industry through imposing high taxes and fees on cars, making them available only to a limited number of peopl…
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam
While Vietnam’s developments since doi moi have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, we still know little about Vietnamese politics. With the deepening of economic reforms and increased p
Hanoi on wheels
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes of Hanoi, the paper considers the changing practices and meanings of motorised mobility in Vietnam’s capitalist transition. It focuses on two main aspects: the everyday geography of the ‘system of moto-mobility’, and the ‘s…
Meat consumption and capitalist development
Geographies of meatification
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
Negotiating Unsustainable Food Transformations
Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary greatly, but there is widespread agreement that demand from new middle classes play a crucial role. Yet this demand is to a large extent co-created by systems of provision, and middle-class consumers are constantly navigating food transfo…
Decision-making, contextual intelligence, maximum oxygenconsumption and explosive strength in futsal players during Covid-19
La presente investigacin busc determinar la relacin entre el consumo mximo de oxgeno, la fuerza explosiva, la toma de decisiones y la inteligencia contextual en deportistas de ftbol sala durante el aislamiento por Covid-19. Estudio descriptivo, realizado con 30 deportistas de futbol sala de la ciudad de Popayn durante el confinamiento por Covid-19, en donde se evalu las caractersticas de entrenamiento, el ndice de masa corporal, la capacidad aerb…
Practical aeromobilities
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it co…
Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes
Towards plantification
In her contribution to the inaugural edition of this journal, Bente Halkier (2022: 52) noted that '[f]ood consumption is an exemplar of the intermingling of a highly routinised but simultaneously normatively contested kind of consumption'. This special issue proposes that meat is especially well-suited to elucidate the complex dynamics of contested consumption, spanning scales from globally connected markets to individuals' guts Meat is more than…
Performing meat reduction across scripted social sites
Current meat consumption trends are associated with extensive resource use, environmental degradation, and detrimental effects on animal and human health, making meat reduction a core sustainability target. The experiences of meat reducers, often conceptualised as flexitarians, have gradually attracted more academic attention. This literature has shown that in many cases meat reducers do not radically reduce their meat intake and have untangled a…
Feeding a tourism boom
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the literature on food and tourism in Asia, little attention has been given to the experiences of host populations. Responding to this lacuna in the literature, this paper analyses how a tourism boom is fed and how tourism-driven “foodway encounters” shape fo…
Eating Out in Contemporary Hanoi
Vietnam's embrace of the Leninist-capitalist hybrid known as the socialist market economy has led to a number of food transformations. These include increasing food imports, heavy investment by powerful domestic and foreign actors in food production and retailing, and the scaling up of domestic agriculture, as well as a range of problematic dietary changes. In an urban food scene that is tremendously rich in the number and diversity of its food s…
It's just pølse’
Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and 'meatification' of diets, focusing on the 'pølse'-an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages-as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why …
Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights
Unsustainable patterns of consumption in affluent societies are at the heart of global climate and environmental challenges and seemingly highly resistant to change. While decades of research have revealed how consumption is deeply embedded in society, recently calls have been made for (re-)engaging with the systemic conditioning of consumption in studies of everyday practices. In this paper, we analyse the ways in which eco-conscious households …
Brewing the Global Shift
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing significant restructuring, there has been little academic attention to these transformations. In this article, the focus is on Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand to analyse how global and regional lead firms adapt to changing competition…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social science (11 works) · Consumption (sociology (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works)