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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
It is difficult, if not impossible, to satisfactorily answer the question ‘Why does poverty persist?’ Nonetheless, there appear to be two approaches that can provide a useful start. One alternative is to examine why poverty ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The rapid developments in Vietnam since the economic reforms (doi moi) initiated in 1986 have led to a transformation of urban mobility. In less than 20 years, motorbike ownership in the country increased tenfold, and there ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The private car comes with promises of modernity and comfortable mobility for the growing middle class in Vietnam. Vietnam’s government has also targeted the domestic automobile industry as a “spearhead industry” in an ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The global consumption of meat and animal products has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly due to rising consumption in so-called developing countries. This increase has popularly been explained as part ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Amidst calls for making food systems more sustainable, new unsustainable food transformations unfold alongside economic development. Explanations for unsustainable food transformations in emerging economies vary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The nature of global development has changed substantially over the past three decades in step with the intensified globalisation of capitalism and its imperatives of growth and expanding consumption. Most significant is ...