Eating the Ocean - Couverture souple

Probyn, Elspeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082236235X ISBN 13 : 9780822362357

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elspeth 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082236235X
• ISBN 13: 9780822362357
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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