{"product_id":"why-we-eat-how-we-eat-9781409447252","title":"Why We Eat, How We Eat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy We Eat, How We Eat\u003c\/em\u003e maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a wide-ranging series of case studies, it examines how foods and bodies both haphazardly encounter and actively engage with one another in ways that are simultaneously material, social, and political. The aim and uniqueness of this volume is therefore the creation of a multidisciplinary dialogue through which to produce new understandings of these encounters that may be invisible to more established paradigms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, \u003cem\u003eWhy We Eat, How We Eat\u003c\/em\u003e concomitantly employs eating as a tool—a novel way of looking—while also drawing attention to the term 'eating' itself, and to the multiple ways in which it can be constituted. The volume asks what eating is—what it performs and silences, what it produces and destroys, and what it makes present and absent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt thereby traces the webs of relations and multiple scales in which eating bodies are entangled; in diverse and innovative ways, contributors demonstrate that eating draws into relationships people, places, and objects that may never tangibly meet, and show how these relations are made and unmade with every mouthful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy illuminating these contemporary encounters, \u003cem\u003eWhy We Eat, How We Eat\u003c\/em\u003e offers an empirically grounded richness that extends previous approaches to foods and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608283529452,"sku":"9781409447252","price":353.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781409447252-why-we-eat-how-we-eat.jpg?v=1778194195","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/why-we-eat-how-we-eat-9781409447252","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}