Eating beside Ourselves

“Eating beside Ourselves is a beautifully curated collection of work by authors doing some of the most exciting and groundbreaking work at the food-body-environment nexus. Savor the elegant writing and relish the paradigm-pushing thinking.” - Julie Guthman, author of Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry

“Eating and being eaten: here’s to a compelling collection of stories highlighting that eating is not a solitary practice, but involves humans and other creatures coming into each other’s worlds. Learn how present-day metabolic relations, rather than being circular, include all but endless intervening elements—and stretch out.” - Annemarie Mol, the author of Eating in Theory

"This book offers both approachable case studies and provocations for academic conversation across disciplines, such as environmental and medical ethics or human geography and global justice. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals."
  - S. M. Weiss, Choice

"Eating besides Ourselves is a cohesive, well-edited intervention that will push research in food studies and beyond for years to come." - Amy Cox Hall, American Ethnologist

"Eating Beside Ourselves will prove to be a new classic in food studies, offering medical anthropology a fresh analytic tool in thresholds that helps us articulate boundary work in new ways. Importantly, this analytic brings in the material and more-than-symbolic in ways that can yield insightful and futuremaking theory." - Jessica Hardin, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"Eating beside Ourselves is empirically diverse and insightful and articulates eating as a fundamental form of relating." - Laura Kuen, Humanimalia