Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.
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.
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 overwh…
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 overwh…
Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.
In this book, the author argues against a psychological depth model of identity - that is, one in which individuals possess an intrinsic quality that guarantees authentic belonging.
Outside Belongings is a key intervention into the debates surrounding identity. Addressing contemporary mode of belonging, nationality and desire, Elspeth Probyn examines the way queer sexuality is posed within theory and how it is located in specific geographical sites. Drawing…
Outside Belongings is a key intervention into the debates surrounding identity. Addressing contemporary mode of belonging, nationality and desire, Elspeth Probyn examines the way queer sexuality is posed within theory and how it is located in specific geographical sites. Drawing…