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Why We Eat, How We Eat

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Why We Eat, How We Eat book

Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies

Why We Eat, How We Eat

DOI link for Why We Eat, How We Eat

Why We Eat, How We Eat book

Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies
Edited ByEmma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 11 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547190
Pages 326 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315547190
SubjectsGeography, Social Sciences
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Abbots, E.J. (Ed.), Lavis, A. (Ed.). (2013). Why We Eat, How We Eat. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547190

Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies it examines how foods and bodies both haphazardly encounter, and actively engage with, one another in ways that are simultaneously material, social, and political. The aim and uniqueness of this volume is therefore the creation of a multidisciplinary dialogue through which to produce new understandings of these encounters that may be invisible to more established paradigms. In so doing, Why We Eat, How We Eat concomitantly employs eating as a tool - a novel way of looking - while also drawing attention to the term 'eating' itself, and to the multiple ways in which it can be constituted. The volume asks what eating is - what it performs and silences, what it produces and destroys, and what it makes present and absent. It thereby traces the webs of relations and multiple scales in which eating bodies are entangled; in diverse and innovative ways, contributors demonstrate that eating draws into relationships people, places and objects that may never tangibly meet, and show how these relations are made and unmade with every mouthful. By illuminating these contemporary encounters, Why We Eat, How We Eat offers an empirically grounded richness that extends previous approaches to foods and bodies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction: Contours of Eating: Mapping the Terrain of Body/Food Encounters

ByEmma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis

part I|2 pages

Absences and Presences: How We (Do Not) Eat What (We Think) We Eat

chapter 1|20 pages

Invisible Foodscapes: Into the Blue

ByKaori O’Connor

chapter 2|18 pages

The Substance of Absence: Exploring Eating and Anorexia

ByAnna Lavis

chapter 3|21 pages

Home and Heart, Hand and Eye: Unseen Links between Pigmen and Pigs in Industrial Farming

chapter |8 pages

Interlude: Eating Practices and Health Behaviour

part II|3 pages

Intimacies, Estrangements and Ambivalences: How Eating Comforts and Disquiets

chapter 4|18 pages

Advancing Critical Dietetics: Theorizing Health at Every Size

ByLucy Aphramor, Jennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras

chapter 5|16 pages

Eating and Drinking Kefraya: The Karam in the Vineyards

ByElizabeth Saleh

chapter 6|20 pages

Negotiating Foreign Bodies: Migration, Trust and the Risky Business of Eating in Highland Ecuador

chapter |8 pages

Interlude: Reflections on Fraught Food

ByJon Holtzman

part III|2 pages

Contradictions and Coexistences: What We Should and Should Not Eat

chapter 7|20 pages

Chewing on Choice

BySally Brooks, Duika Burges Watson, Alizon Draper

chapter 8|18 pages

‘It is the Bacillus that Makes Our Milk’: Ethnocentric Perceptions of Yogurt in Postsocialist Bulgaria

chapter 9|22 pages

The Transition to Low Carbon Milk: Dairy Consumption and the Changing Politics of

ByHuman-Animal Relations

chapter |8 pages

Interlude: Reflections on the Elusiveness of Eating

ByAnne Murcott

part IV|2 pages

Entanglements and Mobilizations: The Multiple Sites of Eating Encounters

chapter 10|18 pages

Confessions of a Vegan Anthropologist: Exploring the Trans-Biopolitics of Eating in the Field

chapter 11|18 pages

Metabolism as Strategy: Agency, Evolution and Biological Hinterlands

chapter 12|16 pages

Ingesting Places: Embodied Geographies of Coffee

ByBenjamin Coles

chapter 13|18 pages

Complex Carbohydrates: On the Relevance of Ethnography in Nutrition Education

chapter |12 pages

Interlude: Entanglements: Fish, Guts, and Bio-cultural Sustainability

ByElspeth Probyn
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