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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Dedication
Title
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction the agency of eating
Methodological approach
The greater Cuenca region of Ecuador
Overview of chapters
1 Eating bodies and bodies of eating: Theoretical foundations
Introduction
What is eating and why does it matter?
The human eating body
The matter of food’s agency
Assembling knowledge: Bourdieu’s intermediaries and Latour’s mediators
Knowledge of bodies: Foucault’s biopower
Concluding remarks
2 Eating at home: Kinned, shared and acquired bodies
Introduction
Sharing substance and the social production of kinship
Matter made to matter: Embodied interactions with cuy in the Ecuadorian household
The taste a/effect
The agency of the eater?: Desire, acceptance and refusal
Gendered food labour and the bio-authority of the cook
Concluding remarks
3 Eating away from home: Displaced and (re)rooted bodies
Introduction
Here and there: Drawing gustatory boundaries
‘Culinary safe havens’: Memory, materialities and affect
Being in a migrant body: Eating away from home
Eating otherness: Incorporation and appropriation
Concluding remarks
4 Eating heritage foods: Proximate and distanced bodies
Introduction
Local food festivals: Producing sameness and difference
Mediating affect: The materialities of festivals
Inscribing citizenship: Coterminous bodies and shared substance
Concluding remarks
5 Eating ‘Global Food’ and its alternatives: Anxious, obscured and active bodies
Introduction
Obscured and unknown bodies: Safety, anxiety and risk
Bodies of production: Tuning, tasting and training
Mediating symbols: Fair trade and Slow Food
Active alternatives and visceral geographies
Concluding remarks
6 Eating for self and society: Responsible, acceptable and abject bodies
Introduction
Organic and GMO foods
The matter of waste
Waste-full and waist-less bodies
Concluding remarks
7 Eating futures: Reflections and directions
Foregrounding the body
Methodological challenges
Bio-authority and bounded vitalism: Future themes and directions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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