ABSTRACT

Connecting embodied, affective disgust to social abjection can further help us understand what these aversions can make bodies do in particular spaces, and how identities are formed and maintained. Through an analysis of affective spaces Thurnell-Read argues 'the embodied rejection of mass-produced beer, most vividly seen in expressions of revulsion and disgust, serves to illustrate the socio-political nature of consumption and of consumer bodies'. This book is primarily influenced by emotional geographies of embodiment, asserting that the experience of taste is socio-cultural, temporal and spatially determined. Space and time are thus major players. Food tourist studies have highlighted the spatial and environmental importance to our enjoyment of food; where and how author experience tastes are key to narratives of pleasure, imagined authenticity and the experience economy.