In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound
importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human
entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans
and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a
food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied
with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a
conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied
ethnography, she dives into the lucrative and endangered bluefin
tuna market, the gendered politics of "sustainability," the
ghoulish business of producing fish meal and fish oil for animals
and humans, and the long history of encounters between humans and
oysters. Seeing the ocean as the site of the entanglement of
multiple species-which are all implicated in the interactions of
technology, culture, politics, and the market-enables us to think
about ways to develop a reflexive ethics of taste and place based
in the realization that we cannot escape the food politics of the
human-fish relationship.
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