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Call for Papers: EASA 2012 Conference in Paris (Université Paris Ouest
Nanterre), 10-13th July 2012
Workshop Title: "Disquiet eaters: uncertain materialities of
scientific evidence"
Convenors:
Emilia Sanabria (Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon)
Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam)
Discussant:
Marilyn Strathern
Abstract
The practices of eating and the bodies therein formed are topics of
considerable debate. Concerns over food and eating vary widely,
involving global hunger, the so-called globesity epidemic, normative
approaches to body-size, and endocrine approaches to eating behaviors
and disordered eating. We explore the ways in which these concerns
coalesce around the mobilization of scientific facts about food and
bodies, increasingly depicted through numeric calculations such as
calories, grams of fats or proteins or body mass index metrics. This
workshop examines the uncertainties that develop through the
evidentiary practices of scientific measurements of food consumption.
In addition to concerns regarding the effects of food on health,
certain foods (such as fats or sugar) are seen as having disquieting
effects on eaters, subverting the subject's will. We invite papers
that consider the specific material properties of foods revealed by
eaters' practices or scientific expertise in the field of nutrition.
While the category of the material generally comes to stand for what
is fixed, the materiality of food is evanescent and the subject of
scientific negotiation.
This workshop interrogates how eaters navigate the uncertainty of the
boundary between the body and foodstuffs. In cases of "disordered"
eating, disquiet may arise around how this boundary is materialised or
traversed. While scientific practices tend to standardise, fixing the
substances of consumption and the bodies of eaters in place, the
papers in this workshop suggest that the tangible materiality of food/
bodies often remains opaque and slippery.
Information on how to submit an abstract can be found here: http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm
The call for paper closes on the 28th Nov. 2011
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