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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elspeth ProbynPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780822362135ISBN 10: 0822362139 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 09 December 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Relating Fish and Humans 1 1. An Oceanic Habitus 23 2. Following Oysters, Relating Taste 49 3. Swimming with Tuna 77 4. Mermaids, Fishwives, and Herring Quines: Gendering the More-than-Human 101 5. Little Fish: Eating with the Ocean 129 Conclusion. Reeling it In 159 Notes 165 References 169 Index 183ReviewsBeautifully written and full of profound ideas, Eating the Ocean engages the reader and surprises her at many turns. Elspeth Probyn complicates the current work being done on food politics, making this an urgent and necessary book for scholars of food studies, environmental culture, the materialist turn, consumer culture, and gender. -- Sarah Sharma, author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics Once again Elspeth Probyn charts a contemporary site of contested encounters with style, humor, erudition and wit. Moving on, through, and under the waves she provides a timely guide to eating the oceans more ethically by cultivating a metabolic sensibility more responsive to our entanglements with aquatic worlds. -- Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship Once again Elspeth Probyn charts a contemporary site of contested encounters with style, humor, erudition and wit. Moving on, through, and under the waves she provides a timely guide to eating the oceans more ethically by cultivating a metabolic sensibility more responsive to our entanglements with aquatic worlds. --Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship Author InformationElspeth Probyn is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and the author of Blush: Faces of Shame and Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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