| In the paper, my close engagement with ethnographic observation and policy analyses delves into the field of purity and danger, risk society, and individuals’ understandings of the state. I have two field sites and I record how food vendors and practitioners react to the conflicts between the market master, the state, and themselves. They maneuver in between the status as migrant workers and citizens in the city to actualize their needs, appropriating their understanding of the state and the government. During the process, food vendors and seafood practitioners dynamically engage with the big state, interpretation of the state policy, and news circulation, carving their personal narratives. The food story happens in the nearby and the art of noticing the nearby emerges in my fieldwork and ethnographic work. |
