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Introduction eating beside ourselves
Summary
This academic introduction to a book chapter examines eating as a cultural and biological threshold between self and environment. This is a humanities and food studies paper with no direct connection to microplastics research.
Introduction eating beside ourselves heather paxsonEating is a liminal activity, occurring at the threshold between "inside" and "outside" the body. . . .As such it represents both opportunity and danger, and so it stands to reason that it would be freighted with significance that bears upon values and the relative worth of diff er ent ways of life.-carolyn korsmeyer, "introduction: perspectives on taste," the taste culture reader transformative acts and pro cesses of eating-tasting, ingesting, digesting, metabolizing-serve to nourish bodies, but they accomplish much else besides.They nourish relations and in this way share features with acts of care (Abbots, Lavis, and Attala 2015).They materialize social differences and in this way participate in gendered (and sexist), racializing (and racist), and classed (and classist) body politics (e.g., Bourdieu
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