Probyn, Elspeth (2016) Eating the ocean. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA.

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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 entangle¬ment 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.

Item ID:	49554
Item Type:	Book (Research - A1)
ISBN:	978-0-8223-6235-7
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2017 03:47
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4405 Gender studies > 440599 Gender studies not elsewhere classified @ 10% 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4702 Cultural studies > 470203 Consumption and everyday life @ 50% 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410499 Environmental management not elsewhere classified @ 40%
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