“Japanische Lebensmittel sind die sichersten der Welt”: Die Verräumlichung von Risiken im Diskurs über Lebensmittelsicherheit in Japan

Abstract

Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, the contamination of food poses serious problems to consumers, producers and policy makers in Japan. This essay shows how different actors create differing spatializations of food risks in order to make food risks manageable in everyday consumption practices, food monitoring and risk communication. Starting out from the observation that risk communication about contaminated food differs from risk communication after the food scandal involving Chinese dumplings (gyōza) in 2008, I follow the Show more