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Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this
multidisciplinary volume asks 'why do individuals, institutions and
agencies care about what other people eat?' It explores how acts of
caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual
bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. In so
doing, the volume extends current critical debates regarding food
and care as political mechanisms through which social hierarchies
are constructed and both self and 'other' (re)produced. Addressing
the ways in which eating and caring interact on multiple scales and
sites - from public health and clinical settings to the market, the
home and online communities - Careful Eating asks what 'eating' and
'caring' are, what relationships they create and rupture, and how
their interplay is experienced in myriad spaces of everyday life.
Taking account of this two-directional flow of engagement between
eating and caring, the chapters are organized into three central
theoretical dimensions: how eating practices mobilize discourses
and forms of care; how discourses and practices of care (look to)
shape particular forms of eating and food preferences; and how it
is often in the bodies of individual consumers that eating and care
encounter one another.
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.
Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this
multidisciplinary volume asks 'why do individuals, institutions and
agencies care about what other people eat?' It explores how acts of
caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual
bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. In so
doing, the volume extends current critical debates regarding food
and care as political mechanisms through which social hierarchies
are constructed and both self and 'other' (re)produced. Addressing
the ways in which eating and caring interact on multiple scales and
sites - from public health and clinical settings to the market, the
home and online communities - Careful Eating asks what 'eating' and
'caring' are, what relationships they create and rupture, and how
their interplay is experienced in myriad spaces of everyday life.
Taking account of this two-directional flow of engagement between
eating and caring, the chapters are organized into three central
theoretical dimensions: how eating practices mobilize discourses
and forms of care; how discourses and practices of care (look to)
shape particular forms of eating and food preferences; and how it
is often in the bodies of individual consumers that eating and care
encounter one another.
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.
Deciding what to eat and how to eat it are two of the most basic
acts of everyday life. Yet every choice also implies a value
judgement: 'good' foods versus 'bad', 'proper' and 'improper' ways
of eating, and 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' bodies. These food
decisions are influenced by a range of social, political and
economic bioauthorities, and mediated through the individual
'eating body'. This book is unique in the cultural politics of food
in its exploration of a range of such bioauthorities and in its
examination of the interplay between them and the individual eating
body. No matter whether they are accepted or resisted, our eating
practices and preferences are shaped by, and shape, these agencies.
Abbots places the body, materiality and the non-human at the heart
of her analysis, interrogating not only how the individual's
embodied eating practices incorporate and reject the bioauthorities
of food, but also how such authorities are created by the
individual act of eating. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from
across the globe, The Agency of Eating provides an important
analysis of the power dynamics at play in the contemporary food
system and the ways in which agency is expressed and bounded. This
book will be of great benefit to any with an interest in food
studies, anthropology, sociology and human geography.
Deciding what to eat and how to eat it are two of the most basic
acts of everyday life. Yet every choice also implies a value
judgement: 'good' foods versus 'bad', 'proper' and 'improper' ways
of eating, and 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' bodies. These food
decisions are influenced by a range of social, political and
economic bioauthorities, and mediated through the individual
'eating body'. This book is unique in the cultural politics of food
in its exploration of a range of such bioauthorities and in its
examination of the interplay between them and the individual eating
body. No matter whether they are accepted or resisted, our eating
practices and preferences are shaped by, and shape, these agencies.
Abbots places the body, materiality and the non-human at the heart
of her analysis, interrogating not only how the individual's
embodied eating practices incorporate and reject the bioauthorities
of food, but also how such authorities are created by the
individual act of eating. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from
across the globe, The Agency of Eating provides an important
analysis of the power dynamics at play in the contemporary food
system and the ways in which agency is expressed and bounded. This
book will be of great benefit to any with an interest in food
studies, anthropology, sociology and human geography.
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