Dr. Nora Katharina Faltmann

Nora Katharina Faltmann works on food and agriculture from a social science perspective. She studied development studies at the University of Vienna where she also obtained her PhD in the research project “A Body-Political Approach to the Study of Food – Vietnam and the Global Transformations.” In her dissertation she observed mechanisms of food access and exclusion in relation to Vietnam’s current food safety issues. During the 2018–2019 academic year, she was a visiting researcher at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London.

As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck she studied alternative food initiatives across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland as part of the research project “Exploring Values-Based Modes of Production and Consumption in the Corporate Food Regime.” A longstanding research interest of Nora’s has been the construct of ‘animals-as-food’ at the intersection of food studies and human-animal relations, a topic she will explore further during her RCC Landhaus fellowship through her project “Multispecies Conviviality: Relations Between Humans and ‘Animals-as-Food.’”

RCC Research Project: Multispecies Conviviality: Relations Between Humans and ‘Animals-as-Food’

Selected Publications:

• with Sarah Steinegger. “Proximity Despite Distance? A Community-Supported Agriculture Initiative Across Rural Mountain and Urban Areas in Switzerland.” Journal of Political Ecology (forthcoming).
• “Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 25, no. 4 (2024): 275–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2024.2370783.
• “Urban Gardening in Ho Chi Minh City: Class, Food Safety Concerns, and the Crisis of Confidence in Farming.” In “Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures,” ed. Megan J. Elias. Special issue, Food, Culture & Society 26, no. 4 (2023): 927–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2142753.
• with Judith Ehlert, eds. Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0743-0.
• “Between Food Safety Concerns and Responsibilisation: Organic Food Consumption in Ho Chi Minh City.” In Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam, edited by Judith Ehlert and Nora Katharina Faltmann. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0743-0_6.
• with Judith Ehlert. “Food Anxiety: Ambivalences Around Body and Identity, Food Safety, and Security.” In Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam, edited by Judith Ehlert and Nora Katharina Faltmann. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0743-0_1.