Research Catalog

Title

Islam, standards, and technoscience : in global Halal zones / Johan Fischer.

Author

Fischer, Johan

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
• ©2016

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Description

207 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 28

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 28.

Subject

• Halal food industry
• Halal food > Social aspects
• Technology > Islam
• Consumption (Economics) > Islam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Halal between Islam, standards, and technoscience -- In the Halal zones of Malaysia and Singapore -- Global Halal networks -- Halal training -- In the Halal lab -- Halal activism -- Manufacturing companies -- Shops and restaurants.

ISBN

• 9781138954182
• 1138954187

LCCN

^^2015027666

OCLC

• 921141309
• SCSB-10425116

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library