Eating the Ocean

by Elspeth Probyn

Book Overview

In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a food politics that is overwhelmingly land based and preoccupied with buzzwords like "local" and "sustainable." Developing a conceptual tack that combines critical analysis and embodied ethnography,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082236235X
• ISBN13: 9780822362357
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"