Rewilding Food and the Self: Critical Conversations from Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032152912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Fournier, Tristan

Opis

This volume contributes to the return to nature movement that is very much in vogue in contemporary European societies, by examining the place of food and eating in the "rewilding" process.

Spis treści

Part 1: The taste for tradition and the hunter-gatherer model  1. Eating wild game: A new carnivorous morality? 2. From remorse to "hunter pride": On a study of those who eat game  Part 2: Promises and market  3. "Natural" wines: The call of the wild grape  4. The wild nature of "vins nature": An oeno-centered counterpoint  5. The promises of fasting: Between animal and primitive models  6. The self, the other and the world: The issues of today’s fasting practice  Part 3: The wild at the interstices: A way of empowerment?  7. Foraging plants within the urban margins: On the possibilities of living with nature in the Greater Paris.  8. Urban scavenging: Another way to rewild the self in the city  9. The wild side of man. How animal metaphors shape masculine food practices and midlife transitions.  10. "Heavy food" and "being in nature". Revisiting male manual workers’ narratives on work, food and health.