Johan Fischer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3640484 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johan Fischer |
| NOMBRES | Johan |
| APELLIDO | Fischer |
| FIRMA | FISCHER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2200-3029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Traders and Tinkers
Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark
The Hebrew term kosher means ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and it traditionally signifies foods that conform to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). This article explores how kosher is understood, practised and contested in contemporary Denmark. In recent years, the rules regulating kosher consumption have been supplemented by elaborate rules concerning globalised mass production, which have had an impact on the way people handle questions of kashrut. During the sa…
Halal Food
For someone such as myself, who has worked on the global halal (literally, “permissible” or “lawful” in Arabic) market for almost two decades, this book is a most welcome contribution to a growing body of literature. Written from a historical perspective, it is explained in the introduction that the book studies “sanctioned dietary substances and practices in the Islamic tradition while exploring how halal versus haram (impermissible) food consid…
Kosher and Halal Business Compliance
Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and halal is an Arabic word that literally means ‘permissible’ or ‘lawful’. Within the last two decades or so, kosher and halal markets have become global in scope and states, manufacturers, restaurants, shops, certifiers and consumers around the world are faced with ever stricter and more complex requirements – most clearly exemplified by Muslim and Jewish groups’ call for kosher and halal certif…
Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning “fit” or “proper” while halal is an Arabic word that literally means “permissible” or “lawful”. This is the first book of its kind to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and…
Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning "fit" or "proper" while halal is an Arabic word that literally means "permissible" or "lawful". This is the first book to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and the state. …
Kosher Biotech
The Hebrew term 'kosher' means 'fit' or 'proper' and signifies foods conforming to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). Kosher biotechnical production is subject to elaborate rules that have warranted regulation over the last two decades. This article shows how kosher regulation works in biotech production. I argue that while existing studies of kosher production and regulation have emerged mostly from within business studies and the food sciences, the …
Forging New Malay networks
This article explores Malaysia's bid to become the world leader in rapidly expanding halal (literally, "lawful" or "permitted") markets on a global scale through the embedding of a particular global Islamic imagination. The Malaysian state has become central to the certification, standardization, and bureaucratization of Malaysian halal production, trade, and consumption. The vision is now to export this model, and for that purpose the network as…
Middle-class projects in modern Malaysia
Within the last two decades or so there has been increased scholarly focus on the emergence, consolidation and future of the middle class in developing Asia. This is also the case with the Malay Muslim middle class in Malaysia, but how this class is developing over time is not well understood even if the Malays constitute the largest and fastest growing section of the middle class in Malaysia. Based on research projects I have carried out from th…
Markets, religion, regulation
Islam, Standards, and Technoscience
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 hala…
Islamic mobility
In a modern and respectable middle-class suburb outside Kuala Lumpur, the overtness of cars evokes intense speculation about the nature of the make-up of covert middle-class homes and the formation of Malay Muslim identities more generally. I argue that the more ‘Islamic’ cultures of consumption assert themselves in modern Malaysia, the more the growing Malay Muslim middle class is split between desiring cars as positional commodities, on the one…
Malaysian diaspora strategies in a globalized Muslim market
Branding halal
In the rapidly expanding global market for halal products, Malaysia and Singapore hold a special position as the only two countries in the world where state bodies certify halal products, spaces (shops, factories and restaurants) as well as work processes. In these two countries and in shops all around the world, consumers can find state halal‐certified products that carry distinctive halal marks. This photographic essay explores the properties o…
The Halal Frontier
In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globali
Boycott or Buycott? Malay Middle-Class Consumption Post -9/11
Much current anti-consumerist and anti-globalisation discourseidentifies boycotting as an immensely powerful force. Religious and secular activists alike promote consumer boycotts as a type of practised resistance that promises to break US economic, military and culturalhegemony. Obviously, consumers' supportis essential for the success of such boycotts, and I argue that insufficient anthropological attention has been paid to the micro-sociallogi…
Feeding Secularism
In November 2005, the Halal Exhibition at the major World Food Market (WFM) in London was held for the first time. WFM also included an Ethnic Specialty Food Exhibition, as well as a Kosher Exhibition. In 2006, a delegation from the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE)1 had a booth at the Halal Exhibition. As we shall see, Malaysia holds a special position in the global halalmarket. In 2004 Malaysia launched its first Malaysi…
Torben Bech Dyrberg, Allan Dreyer Hansen & Jacob Torfing (red.)
Anmeldes af Johan Fischer
Bjarne Stoklund (red.)
Bjarne Stoklund (red.): Kulturens nationalisering. 217 Et etnologisk perspektiv på det nationale Anmeldes af Johan Fischer
Boycott or Buycott? Malay Middle-Class Consumption Post -9/11
Much current anti-consumerist and anti-globalisation discourseidentifies boycotting as an immensely powerful force. Religious and secular activists alike promote consumer boycotts as a type of practised resistance that promises to break US economic, military and culturalhegemony. Obviously, consumers' supportis essential for the success of such boycotts, and I argue that insufficient anthropological attention has been paid to the micro-sociallogi…
Markets, religion, regulation
Malaysian diaspora strategies in a globalized Muslim market
Feeding Secularism
In November 2005, the Halal Exhibition at the major World Food Market (WFM) in London was held for the first time. WFM also included an Ethnic Specialty Food Exhibition, as well as a Kosher Exhibition. In 2006, a delegation from the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE)1 had a booth at the Halal Exhibition. As we shall see, Malaysia holds a special position in the global halalmarket. In 2004 Malaysia launched its first Malaysi…
Islamic mobility
In a modern and respectable middle-class suburb outside Kuala Lumpur, the overtness of cars evokes intense speculation about the nature of the make-up of covert middle-class homes and the formation of Malay Muslim identities more generally. I argue that the more ‘Islamic’ cultures of consumption assert themselves in modern Malaysia, the more the growing Malay Muslim middle class is split between desiring cars as positional commodities, on the one…
Branding halal
In the rapidly expanding global market for halal products, Malaysia and Singapore hold a special position as the only two countries in the world where state bodies certify halal products, spaces (shops, factories and restaurants) as well as work processes. In these two countries and in shops all around the world, consumers can find state halal‐certified products that carry distinctive halal marks. This photographic essay explores the properties o…
Bjarne Stoklund (red.)
Bjarne Stoklund (red.): Kulturens nationalisering. 217 Et etnologisk perspektiv på det nationale Anmeldes af Johan Fischer
Torben Bech Dyrberg, Allan Dreyer Hansen & Jacob Torfing (red.)
Anmeldes af Johan Fischer
Feeding Secularism
In November 2005, the Halal Exhibition at the major World Food Market (WFM) in London was held for the first time. WFM also included an Ethnic Specialty Food Exhibition, as well as a Kosher Exhibition. In 2006, a delegation from the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE)1 had a booth at the Halal Exhibition. As we shall see, Malaysia holds a special position in the global halalmarket. In 2004 Malaysia launched its first Malaysi…
Boycott or Buycott? Malay Middle-Class Consumption Post -9/11
Much current anti-consumerist and anti-globalisation discourseidentifies boycotting as an immensely powerful force. Religious and secular activists alike promote consumer boycotts as a type of practised resistance that promises to break US economic, military and culturalhegemony. Obviously, consumers' supportis essential for the success of such boycotts, and I argue that insufficient anthropological attention has been paid to the micro-sociallogi…
The Halal Frontier
In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globali
Branding halal
In the rapidly expanding global market for halal products, Malaysia and Singapore hold a special position as the only two countries in the world where state bodies certify halal products, spaces (shops, factories and restaurants) as well as work processes. In these two countries and in shops all around the world, consumers can find state halal‐certified products that carry distinctive halal marks. This photographic essay explores the properties o…
Islamic mobility
In a modern and respectable middle-class suburb outside Kuala Lumpur, the overtness of cars evokes intense speculation about the nature of the make-up of covert middle-class homes and the formation of Malay Muslim identities more generally. I argue that the more ‘Islamic’ cultures of consumption assert themselves in modern Malaysia, the more the growing Malay Muslim middle class is split between desiring cars as positional commodities, on the one…
Malaysian diaspora strategies in a globalized Muslim market
Islam, Standards, and Technoscience
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 hala…
Markets, religion, regulation
Middle-class projects in modern Malaysia
Within the last two decades or so there has been increased scholarly focus on the emergence, consolidation and future of the middle class in developing Asia. This is also the case with the Malay Muslim middle class in Malaysia, but how this class is developing over time is not well understood even if the Malays constitute the largest and fastest growing section of the middle class in Malaysia. Based on research projects I have carried out from th…
Kosher and Halal Business Compliance
Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and halal is an Arabic word that literally means ‘permissible’ or ‘lawful’. Within the last two decades or so, kosher and halal markets have become global in scope and states, manufacturers, restaurants, shops, certifiers and consumers around the world are faced with ever stricter and more complex requirements – most clearly exemplified by Muslim and Jewish groups’ call for kosher and halal certif…
Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning “fit” or “proper” while halal is an Arabic word that literally means “permissible” or “lawful”. This is the first book of its kind to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and…
Religion, regulation, consumption
This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning "fit" or "proper" while halal is an Arabic word that literally means "permissible" or "lawful". This is the first book to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and the state. …
Kosher Biotech
The Hebrew term 'kosher' means 'fit' or 'proper' and signifies foods conforming to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). Kosher biotechnical production is subject to elaborate rules that have warranted regulation over the last two decades. This article shows how kosher regulation works in biotech production. I argue that while existing studies of kosher production and regulation have emerged mostly from within business studies and the food sciences, the …
Forging New Malay networks
This article explores Malaysia's bid to become the world leader in rapidly expanding halal (literally, "lawful" or "permitted") markets on a global scale through the embedding of a particular global Islamic imagination. The Malaysian state has become central to the certification, standardization, and bureaucratization of Malaysian halal production, trade, and consumption. The vision is now to export this model, and for that purpose the network as…
Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark
The Hebrew term kosher means ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and it traditionally signifies foods that conform to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). This article explores how kosher is understood, practised and contested in contemporary Denmark. In recent years, the rules regulating kosher consumption have been supplemented by elaborate rules concerning globalised mass production, which have had an impact on the way people handle questions of kashrut. During the sa…
Halal Food
For someone such as myself, who has worked on the global halal (literally, “permissible” or “lawful” in Arabic) market for almost two decades, this book is a most welcome contribution to a growing body of literature. Written from a historical perspective, it is explained in the introduction that the book studies “sanctioned dietary substances and practices in the Islamic tradition while exploring how halal versus haram (impermissible) food consid…
Traders and Tinkers
Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Halal products and consumer behavior (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · History (9 obras) · Islam (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Art (5 obras)