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Decentering Subjectivity in Everyday Eating and Drinking: Digesting Reality

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

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This important book offers a model to analyze the configurations of reality as manifested in everyday practices of eating and drinking in relation to the development of human subjectivity. The author uses concrete examples from daily life related to eating and drinking habits such as "eating tacos" or "taking a shot of mezcal", to offer an interface of interaction between body/mind and material entities connecting all scales of reality.

Borrowing scientific insights from molecular biology and neuroscience, combined with a touch of decolonial spirit, the author examines specific 'processes' and/or 'objects' triggered by eating and drinking events, such as the production of heat as you eat a taco, or the interchange of knowledge while drinking mezcal. The book develops an approach to human subjectivity informed by material and aesthetic encounters beyond the analysis of language, representation, and social structures and aims to contribute to the contemporary landscape of efforts decentering our understanding of both human and non-human affairs.

With its multidimensional exploration of our relationship with food, this is thought-provoking reading for scholars and students in critical psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences.

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  • Title

    Decentering Subjectivity in Everyday Eating and Drinking: Digesting Reality

  • Author

    Ali Lara

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    277g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367534905

  • ISBN-10

    0367534908

  • Eden Code

    5264339

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