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Title: | WHO’S GOT BEEF WITH BEEF (?)?: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2008 SOUTH KOREAN MAD COW DISEASE CRISIS, AND ITS SALIENCE IN FOOD, CLASS AND FEMINIST POLITICS | Authors: | CHA SEUNG HYUN (ESTHER) | Issue Date: | 14-Mar-2021 | Citation: | CHA SEUNG HYUN (ESTHER) (2021-03-14). WHO’S GOT BEEF WITH BEEF (?)?: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2008 SOUTH KOREAN MAD COW DISEASE CRISIS, AND ITS SALIENCE IN FOOD, CLASS AND FEMINIST POLITICS. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Food politics has been at the forefronts of modern-day political debates. Amidst international issues with food politics, the debate revolves around the sovereignty of food. Among national debates around food politics, governments and mass food corporations are concerned with the security of food. Last but not least, in the most personal discussions around food politics comes the problem of food safety. Initially categorized as a personal-level concern, food safety involved individuals ascertaining their own boundaries of food safety by choosing to purchase GMO or non-GMO grains, organic or conventionally grown produce, vegan or keto meals and more. However, in these navigations of the personal in food politics it has become increasingly clear the influence of politics in food and vice versa – wherein food has the power to alter and affect change in politics. Therefore, this thesis has chosen the 2008 South Korean Mad Cow Disease as a salient case study. The 2008 Mad Cow Protests in South Korea were salient in that it was one of the largest most evolutionary forms of modern-day protestation – that dealt with issues of food, class and feminist politics. In these intersections of politics and the personal, I argue that food remains a key factor in inciting, enabling and empowering societal change and outrage. Gleaning from the works of Michael Pollan and Lanvin, I argue that food has the power to infiltrate the most intimate places of societies psyche, to act as surrogates for deeper societal grievances. Therefore, through this paper I prove the importance of recognising food politics as a personal everyday politics that should be navigated with the rights and interests of people in mind – in order for future issues in food politics to be dealt with rationality, fairness and empathy. | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/199471 |
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