Eating the Ocean

Probyn, Elspeth

Duke University Press（2016/12発売）

Duke University Press（2016/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822362357
• DDC分類 333.916416

Full Description

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. 

Contents

Acknowledgments  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  183