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Author Lara, Ali, author

Title Decentering subjectivity in everyday eating and drinking : digesting reality / Ali Lara
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations
Series Concepts for critical psychology: disciplinary boundaries re-thought
Concepts for critical psychology.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Digesting reality -- 1 Tacos and heat -- 2 Veganism and politics -- 3 Chocolate and desire -- 4 Wine and time -- 5 Mezcal and knowledge -- 6 Toward a multilayered model to digest reality -- References -- Index
Summary 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 habitssuch 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2020)
Subject Subjectivity.
Food -- Psychological aspects
Food habits -- Psychological aspects
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology.
Food habits -- Psychological aspects
Food -- Psychological aspects
Subjectivity
Form Electronic book
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