Johan Fischer

Associate Professor, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business
Associate Professor, Global Political Sociology
Associate Professor, International Development Research Group
CIRCLES - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Circular Economy and Sustainability

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8182-3284

Phone+45 46 74 27 81
Emailjohanf@ruc.dk
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Universitetsvej 1, 23.2
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark

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Research

Johan Fischer is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. His work focuses on modern religion and markets. More specifically, he explores the interfaces between class, consumption, market relations, religion and the state in a globalized world. A central focus in this research is the theoretical and empirical focus on the globalization of religious commodities and services. He is the author of Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia (NIAS Press 2008), The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), Islam, Standards, and Technoscience: In Global Halal Zones (Routledge 2015), Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective (Routledge 2015), Religion, Regulation, Consumption: Globalising Kosher and Halal Markets (Manchester University Press 2018), Kosher and Halal Business Compliance (Routledge 2018), Muslim Piety as Economy: Markets, Meaning and Morality in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2019) as well as articles in journals and edited volumes. He is Editor of the Routledge book series Studies in Material Religion and Spirituality and on the Editorial Boards of British Food Journal, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies as well as Research in Globalization. Currently, he works on a research project that explores the relationship between vegetarian and non-vegetarian (food) markets in India.

Keywords

History, Society
class
capitalism
state
religion
Industrial development, Development economics and planning, Developing countries
Communication, Journalism, Media
Production, Consumption
regulation
markets
food
Cultural encounters, Multi-culturalism
ethnicity
migration
globalization
Economics, Politics
Management, Organization, Business economy and administration, Management and organization of industry, trade, and communication
Theory of science, History and sociology of science, knowledge and technology, Research policy