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 halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world. Building on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe, this book provides an exploration of the role of halal production, trade, and standards. Fischer explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge. Focusing on the bigger institutional picture that frames everyday halal consumption, Fischer provides a multisited ethnography of the overlapping technologies and techniques of production, trade, and standards that together warrant a product as halal, and thereby help to format the market. Exploring global halal in networks, training, laboratories, activism, companies, shops and restaurants, this book will be an essential resource to scholars and students of social science interested in the global interface zones between religion, standards, and technoscience.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138954182
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216322544
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Johan Fischer
Publication Name
Islam, Standards, and Technoscience: in Global Halal Zones
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Sociology, Anthropology
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
28
Item Weight
454g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Johan Fischer
Series Title
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Topic
Islam
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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