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Eating the ocean / / Elspeth Probyn



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Autore: Probyn Elspeth <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Eating the ocean / / Elspeth Probyn Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Disciplina: 333.95/616
Soggetto topico: Food habits - Environmental aspects
Sustainable fisheries
Seafood - Environmental aspects
Seafood industry - Environmental aspects
Feminist theory
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: relating fish and humans -- An oceanic habitus -- Following oysters, relating taste -- Swimming with tuna -- Mermaids, fishwives, and herring quines: gendering the more-than-human -- Little fish: eating with the ocean -- Conclusion: reeling it in.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Eating the ocean  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8223-7379-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910136668303321
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