ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which care is politically deployed in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. It considers how particular groups mobilize care in myriad ways to critique, interfere and govern Other people's eating by appealing beyond the health of the eaters' individual bodies to that of the broader social body. The chapter elucidates how particular social groups, in this context the local Cuencano population and the migrant-peasantry, are subjected to visions of 'good food' perpetuated by other social groups structurally positioned them in the social order, privileged migrants and the governing class. It interrogates the ways in which privileged migrants and the governing classes construct absences of care in the local Cuencano population and the migrant-peasantry as a problem that requires intervention. Guthman thereby elucidates the politics of knowledge production and the manner it not only creates a problem to care about, but does so in a way that enables a particular group to 'socially scold'.
