Yuson Jung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuson Jung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuson |
| FAMILY NAME | Jung |
| SIGNATURE | JUNG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Re-Centering Race in Emancipatory Entrepreneurship: Black Female Tech Founders, Money, and Meaning in a Detroit-Based Incubator Program
This study is an anthropological inquiry into the perceptions and attitudes of Black female tech entrepreneurs towards capitalism in the context of an incubator program in Detroit, USA. Drawing upon ethnographic data from the STEM Entrepreneurial Excellence Program (STEEP), the study reveals the intricate relationships that Black female founders maintain with money and capitalism. These complexities manifest in moral quandaries related to fundrai…
Responsible Driving In The Age Of Smartphones: Applied Research For Improving Road Safety In The Motor City
Smartphones have become ubiquitous commodities in our contemporary lives and essential to our daily experiences. With limited public transportation in the United States and dependence on cars, the combination of smartphones and driving raises important questions of safety. We discuss our collaboration with Chevrolet-GM in Detroit in product development and user experience research, namely beta-testing a mobile phone app that was developed by Chev…
Beyond Methods: A Model for Teaching Theory in Applied Anthropology
Rising numbers of anthropology majors are entering sectors in industry, in which qualitative data analysis skills and theoretical thinking are essential. Yet, a disciplinary divide between theoretical and applied approaches in anthropology and a market for commodified method skills often present challenges to teaching theory in the applied anthropology classroom. Our study is based upon the successful implementation of a three-phase qualitative d…
Consumers Demand More in Postsocialist Bulgaria
What do consumer rights actually mean in a context in which citizens are unsure whether there is even a functioning judicial system
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by …
Economic Anthropology
Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics, and Scale in Cuba
Everyday Moral Economies examines everyday food provisioning practices in Cuba, focusing on the spatio-temporal dimensions of values (material and social) to understand how ordinary Cubans articula
Re-creating economic and cultural values in Bulgaria's wine industry: From an economy of quantity to an economy of quality
The transformation of the Bulgarian wine industry from a state-owned and heavily industrialized enterprise into many privatized wineries and vineyards following the collapse of state socialism involved the question of how to transform an economy of quantity to one of quality. At the heart of this question are contestations around the meanings and values of technology in wine production. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria among wine produ…
Introduction toCrafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of TasteSpecial Issue ofFood and Foodways, June 2014
The quintessential summer strawberry, a taste that evokes childhood memories, a new and exciting flavor combination. The nose picks up the scents, the eyes scan the offerings, the mouth waters, the
Tasting and Judging the UnknownTerroirof the Bulgarian Wine: The Political Economy of Sensory Experience
Some Bulgarian winemakers insist that their unique terroir (taste of place) and native grapes can deliver a “distinctive” product in the global market. Such beliefs are the driving force for marginal producers to continue with their wine production in a fiercely competitive global wine market despite the lack of brand equity and cultural capital compared to the world's elite wines. How can the global consumer sense this unique “taste of place” wh…
Experiencing the “West” through the “East” in the Margins of Europe: Chinese Food Consumption Practices in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Globalization often assumes a directionality that is associated with a one-way flow of commodities and ideas from the “West” to the “East.” As a result, Western food practices and symbols such as McDonald's and Starbucks have become symbolic markers of globalization. Non-Western commodities such as Chinese food or Japanese sushi, however, have also been associated with globalization. In postsocialist Bulgaria, Chinese food has become very popular…
Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria by Gerald W. Creed
Parting the 'Wine Lake'
Europe has been suffering from an overproduction of wine and declining wine consumption, which has compelled the EU commission to handle unsold and unconsumed wine in Europe. This article explores the implications of the recent wine reform (part of CAP reform) of the European Union from the perspectives of the Bulgarian wine producers. Bulgaria is one of the newest members of the EU and its wine industry has traditionally been oriented towards th…
Ambivalent consumers and niche producers. Organic food movement in postsocialist Bulgaria
The Inability Not to Follow: Western Hegemonies and the Notion of "Complaisance" in the Enlarged Europe
In this article, I focus on the dilemma of consumer advocacy NGO activists and consumers in postsocialist Bulgaria who consider themselves as marginalized and caught between global and local value systems that are not always mutually compatible. In particular, I draw attention to the aspect of complicity assumed in widespread discussions about hegemony because many Bulgarians deny their complicity in, and exhibit complaisance toward, strengthenin…
Tasting and Judging the UnknownTerroirof the Bulgarian Wine: The Political Economy of Sensory Experience
Some Bulgarian winemakers insist that their unique terroir (taste of place) and native grapes can deliver a “distinctive” product in the global market. Such beliefs are the driving force for marginal producers to continue with their wine production in a fiercely competitive global wine market despite the lack of brand equity and cultural capital compared to the world's elite wines. How can the global consumer sense this unique “taste of place” wh…
Experiencing the “West” through the “East” in the Margins of Europe: Chinese Food Consumption Practices in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Globalization often assumes a directionality that is associated with a one-way flow of commodities and ideas from the “West” to the “East.” As a result, Western food practices and symbols such as McDonald's and Starbucks have become symbolic markers of globalization. Non-Western commodities such as Chinese food or Japanese sushi, however, have also been associated with globalization. In postsocialist Bulgaria, Chinese food has become very popular…
The Inability Not to Follow: Western Hegemonies and the Notion of "Complaisance" in the Enlarged Europe
In this article, I focus on the dilemma of consumer advocacy NGO activists and consumers in postsocialist Bulgaria who consider themselves as marginalized and caught between global and local value systems that are not always mutually compatible. In particular, I draw attention to the aspect of complicity assumed in widespread discussions about hegemony because many Bulgarians deny their complicity in, and exhibit complaisance toward, strengthenin…
Re-creating economic and cultural values in Bulgaria's wine industry: From an economy of quantity to an economy of quality
The transformation of the Bulgarian wine industry from a state-owned and heavily industrialized enterprise into many privatized wineries and vineyards following the collapse of state socialism involved the question of how to transform an economy of quantity to one of quality. At the heart of this question are contestations around the meanings and values of technology in wine production. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria among wine produ…
Introduction toCrafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of TasteSpecial Issue ofFood and Foodways, June 2014
The quintessential summer strawberry, a taste that evokes childhood memories, a new and exciting flavor combination. The nose picks up the scents, the eyes scan the offerings, the mouth waters, the
The Inability Not to Follow: Western Hegemonies and the Notion of "Complaisance" in the Enlarged Europe
In this article, I focus on the dilemma of consumer advocacy NGO activists and consumers in postsocialist Bulgaria who consider themselves as marginalized and caught between global and local value systems that are not always mutually compatible. In particular, I draw attention to the aspect of complicity assumed in widespread discussions about hegemony because many Bulgarians deny their complicity in, and exhibit complaisance toward, strengthenin…
Parting the 'Wine Lake'
Europe has been suffering from an overproduction of wine and declining wine consumption, which has compelled the EU commission to handle unsold and unconsumed wine in Europe. This article explores the implications of the recent wine reform (part of CAP reform) of the European Union from the perspectives of the Bulgarian wine producers. Bulgaria is one of the newest members of the EU and its wine industry has traditionally been oriented towards th…
Ambivalent consumers and niche producers. Organic food movement in postsocialist Bulgaria
Experiencing the “West” through the “East” in the Margins of Europe: Chinese Food Consumption Practices in Postsocialist Bulgaria
Globalization often assumes a directionality that is associated with a one-way flow of commodities and ideas from the “West” to the “East.” As a result, Western food practices and symbols such as McDonald's and Starbucks have become symbolic markers of globalization. Non-Western commodities such as Chinese food or Japanese sushi, however, have also been associated with globalization. In postsocialist Bulgaria, Chinese food has become very popular…
Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria by Gerald W. Creed
Introduction toCrafting Senses: Circulating the Knowledge and Experience of TasteSpecial Issue ofFood and Foodways, June 2014
The quintessential summer strawberry, a taste that evokes childhood memories, a new and exciting flavor combination. The nose picks up the scents, the eyes scan the offerings, the mouth waters, the
Tasting and Judging the UnknownTerroirof the Bulgarian Wine: The Political Economy of Sensory Experience
Some Bulgarian winemakers insist that their unique terroir (taste of place) and native grapes can deliver a “distinctive” product in the global market. Such beliefs are the driving force for marginal producers to continue with their wine production in a fiercely competitive global wine market despite the lack of brand equity and cultural capital compared to the world's elite wines. How can the global consumer sense this unique “taste of place” wh…
Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics, and Scale in Cuba
Everyday Moral Economies examines everyday food provisioning practices in Cuba, focusing on the spatio-temporal dimensions of values (material and social) to understand how ordinary Cubans articula
Re-creating economic and cultural values in Bulgaria's wine industry: From an economy of quantity to an economy of quality
The transformation of the Bulgarian wine industry from a state-owned and heavily industrialized enterprise into many privatized wineries and vineyards following the collapse of state socialism involved the question of how to transform an economy of quantity to one of quality. At the heart of this question are contestations around the meanings and values of technology in wine production. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Bulgaria among wine produ…
Economic Anthropology
Consumers Demand More in Postsocialist Bulgaria
What do consumer rights actually mean in a context in which citizens are unsure whether there is even a functioning judicial system
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by …
Re-Centering Race in Emancipatory Entrepreneurship: Black Female Tech Founders, Money, and Meaning in a Detroit-Based Incubator Program
This study is an anthropological inquiry into the perceptions and attitudes of Black female tech entrepreneurs towards capitalism in the context of an incubator program in Detroit, USA. Drawing upon ethnographic data from the STEM Entrepreneurial Excellence Program (STEEP), the study reveals the intricate relationships that Black female founders maintain with money and capitalism. These complexities manifest in moral quandaries related to fundrai…
Responsible Driving In The Age Of Smartphones: Applied Research For Improving Road Safety In The Motor City
Smartphones have become ubiquitous commodities in our contemporary lives and essential to our daily experiences. With limited public transportation in the United States and dependence on cars, the combination of smartphones and driving raises important questions of safety. We discuss our collaboration with Chevrolet-GM in Detroit in product development and user experience research, namely beta-testing a mobile phone app that was developed by Chev…
Beyond Methods: A Model for Teaching Theory in Applied Anthropology
Rising numbers of anthropology majors are entering sectors in industry, in which qualitative data analysis skills and theoretical thinking are essential. Yet, a disciplinary divide between theoretical and applied approaches in anthropology and a market for commodified method skills often present challenges to teaching theory in the applied anthropology classroom. Our study is based upon the successful implementation of a three-phase qualitative d…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Bulgarian (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economy (4 works)