ABSTRACT
The social-economic and ecological schisms resulting from the unequal distribution of benefits from tourism place Galapagos' society in a "double bind": pursuing economic success, but doing so in an environmentally responsible and legal way. Qualitative attention to the corporeality of contemporary food in the Galapagos island of San Cristóbal leads to explore what potentialities ways of producing, exchanging, and eating food hold for the Galapagos. The chapter explains the creativities and multiplicities embedded in people's living and being. It therefore utilizes people's daily food as an analytic device to better understand the potentialities in the constitution of existing practices for addressing democratic tensions between conservation interests and livelihoods in the Galapagos, in particular on the island of San Cristóbal. The chapter focuses on the practices of people who do the work of growing, selling, and eating food in San Cristóbal, an island of about 7,500 permanent inhabitants.
