Decentering Subjectivity in Everyday Eating and Drinking: Digesting Reality (Concepts for Critical Psychology)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

164 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000208764

Related ISBNs:

9781003082194, 9780367534905, 9780367534851

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/03/20

Copyrighted By:

Ali Lara, The right of Ali Lara to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy

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