Beyond the Sovereign Body

Guthman, Julie; Broad, Garrett M.; Klein, Kendra; Landecker, Hannah

doi:10.1525/gfc.2014.14.3.46

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“…Emilia Sanabria and Emily Yates-Doerr, noticing this inadequate capturing of the richness of the word "alimentación, " advocate employing the term "aliment" -that which nourishes the body -"to reinvigorate a valuable but underutilized concept, enriching the vocabulary with which to address the recent proliferation of scientific examinations of the relation between food and health" (Sanabria and Yates-Doerr 2015: 117). This reduction of food to its nutrients ignores the cultural, historical and national contexts tethers of eating, enjoyment and experience: in short, it neglects local knowledges and practical valuations of good or bad food (Guthman 2014;Guthman et al 2014;Ransom and Wright 2013), and, in addition, it fails to take into account situated practices of what constitutes "eating well" (Martínez 2015).…”

Section: Foods Nutrients and Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this work, I offer insights into the "registers of valuation" of fats at work in local cooking practices. By documenting ways in which valuing is done in the kitchen, by analyzing mundane cooking practices more broadly, and by contrasting them with nutrition advisories such as the ones described above, I aim to contribute to the critical literature on nutritional recommendations and applied nutritional science Guthman 2014;Guthman et al 2014;Kimura et al 2014;Scrinis 2008;Yates-Doerr 2012).…”

Section: Foods Nutrients and Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Thinking with La Cocina: fats in Spanish kitchens and dietary recommendations

Martín

2018

Food, Culture & Society

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In Spain, dietary recommendations for "healthy eating" hinge on the nutrient content of foods. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in domestic kitchens, I argue that this essentializing approach fails to attend to the multiple "registers of valuation" of foods -and especially of fats -that are at work in the practice of cooking. This argument has policy implications: for dietary recommendations to transform eating practices it is necessary to take into account how, while cooking, actors draw on these various forms of valuation. Such a re-focus will make dietary recommendations more sensitive to the social and material conditions under which cooking is done and better attuned to the eating practices present in mundane culinary contexts.

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Section: Foods Nutrients and Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Foods Nutrients and Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking with La Cocina: fats in Spanish kitchens and dietary recommendations

Martín

2018

Food, Culture & Society

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“…This paper, then, examines such moments of leakage, or A blurring of the lines between kinds evidence is a hallmark of many contemporary environmental health problems, including microbial ones, as well as global climate change, extinction, and epigenetics (Lock, 2013, Van Dooren, 2014. For example, evidence of the effects of toxic chemicals on bodies is difficult to muster within the rules of either environmental or biomedical science, which tend to insist on quantitative measures (Fortun, 2012;Shapiro, 2015;Mansfield, 2008;Guthman, et al 2014;Murphy, 2006). In environmental justice struggles, claims about the linkages between toxins and bodily disorders are frequently undone by counterclaims by industry that those same disorders are the result of particular cultural behaviors such as smoking or diet (Fortun, 2011).…”

Section: Paraethnography and Evidentiary Symbiosismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tactically, paraethnography serves to ' [consolidate] technical and historically contingent ideas about…dietary practices into seemingly unproblematic terms' (Yates-Doerr, 2012, 294). The broad category of health becomes reduced to the narrow domain of food (Guthman, et al, 2014). The historical entanglement of 'traditional' cultures, including those of hunter-gatherers, with 'modern' life is well known in anthropology, even if the Yanomami in particular are more familiar as a case example for debates about the origins of human-human aggression than of interspecies harmony (Ferguson, 2001).…”

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Evidentiary Symbiosis: On Paraethnography in Human–Microbe Relations

Nading

2016

Science as Culture

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Though microbial infections are central concerns for public health workers in urban Nicaragua, health workers there rarely if ever speak of the existence of a "microbiome" when they address such problems. Among scientists and the public in the United States, on the other hand, the microbiome, seen as the "internal ecosystem" that regulates the workings of human guts, is a regular topic of conversation. This raises questions about how one might go about doing a social study of the microbiome in places where it does not (yet) exist as a category of expert practice or public discourse. Evidence from Nicaragua and the USA highlights two sites at which experts use paraethnography to engage people in research and discussion about microbial ecologies. In their work, U.S. microbiome scientists and Nicaraguan public health workers both engage in "paraethnography," the practice of collecting and analyzing qualitative information that does not fit into statistical or other kinds of scientific models. In the USA, paraethnography has driven both traditional scientific experiments on the microbiome and online, crowd-sourced experimental platforms for collecting and analyzing information about gut microbes. In Nicaragua, hygienists generate paraethnographic evidence through word-of-mouth, radio, and print media. A comparison between the work of U.S. scientists and that of Nicaraguan hygienists suggests three different ways (commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic) in which the cultural/interpretive evidence of paraethnography interfaces symbiotically with the quantitative/statistical evidence of bioscience. Attention to evidentiary symbiosis provides 2 insights into the operations of publicly oriented science under conditions of bodily and planetary uncertainty.

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“…In this respect, our arguments build on insights that have recently gained traction in body studies and related fields concerned with the complexity of body-health-environment relations, notably critical food studies and political ecology (Guthman, Broad, Klein and Landecker, 2014;Landecker, 2011), the ethics and geographies of waste (Hawkins, 2006; Ibáñez Martín and de Laet, 2018), and 'new' materialist and posthumanist philosophies of the body (Alaimo, 2010;Frost, 2016), food (Abbots, 2017), and ecology (Bennett, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder

King

Weedon

2019

Body & Society

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This article explores the metabolic lives of whey powder, the most popular form of protein supplement in what has become a multibillion-dollar industry during the past two decades. Faced with the slippery and elusive properties latent to this multiplicitous substance, our approach is to follow whey powder from its mid-20th century emergence as a noxious byproduct of industrial dairy production, through the human and animal bodies unevenly tasked with its processing, and out into waterways, where its nitrogen density rematerializes as a pollutant. We show how whey powder emerged as a solution to the environmental damage posed by whey pollution, how such damage is an effect of the systematic overproduction endemic to agrofood industries and how whey’s toxicity persists through processes of metabolism and consumption, despite attempts to process and profit from its vital capacities. Throughout, we argue that whey exemplifies ecological embodiment, understood as the co-constitutive relations between bodily matter and ecological life, and their entanglement with processes of commodification.

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Beyond the Sovereign Body

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Thinking with La Cocina: fats in Spanish kitchens and dietary recommendations

Thinking with La Cocina: fats in Spanish kitchens and dietary recommendations

Evidentiary Symbiosis: On Paraethnography in Human–Microbe Relations

Embodiment is Ecological: The Metabolic Lives of Whey Protein Powder

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