+1 862 207 3288 Choose one of the following questions to answer as your final assessment piece. You should use at least two different theoretical perspectives from the readings and preferably one of the methods of study (e.g. ethnographic, interview-based etc.) encountered in the course.
Due: Monday August 4th, by 11:59pm via Turnitin, and if in Kurt’s class, 4pm at the SOPHI office.
There is no set referencing system that must be used: choose your own and use it correctly and consistently.
#####Day 4: Human-animal metabolic intimacies
Identify a particular form of animal consumption and the taste practices which have developed around a specific meat product (e.g. fish, quail, lamb etc.) How does this form of consumption articulate ‘metabolic intimacy’ (or, instead, ‘metabolic alienation’) between the humans and animals in question (and in the context you have identified)? Attempt to trace these relations in terms of a social-material ‘network’ (as it has been done, for example, in the work of Law and Mol or Probyn). Original research is required (e.g. preferably not boiled pigswill, kangaroo or tuna).
#####Day 5: Biographies of what we eat/the work of production
Focus on a practice which can be read as an ‘ethical’ challenge to capitalist, market-based ‘normative’ life. Examples may include: dumpster diving, urban gleaning, veganism, ‘farm-to-table’ organic food movements (such as Real Food Projects Sydney) etc. Your methodology can be ethnographic or a more traditional essay. In what ways does this practice open us up to what Law and Mol call ‘alternative material possibilities’, and how might we think of these possibilities as political?
#####Day 6: Visceral ethnography and consuming class
Conduct your own ‘visceral ethnography’ by focusing on an amateur taste practice (e.g. coffee or ‘craft beer’ consumption) as an embodied experience. Discuss how particular “setups” influence possibilities for articulation (Latour) and affective encounters between bodies. You can use any material gathered from the Young Henrys brewery excursion as an example.
#####Day 7: Local production, global consumption: raced foods
Studying ‘the places where food is produced, where it is eaten, how natural entities are transformed into commodities within a context of globalisation and local communities’ can allow us to think ethically and politically about consumption. Pick a food (e.g. sushi, kangaroo) and a cultural context (e.g. consumption in Japan, consumption in Australia) to explore how cultural imaginaries dictate “how things become food” in complex ways.
#####Day 8: Consuming resources
From a particular angle (e.g. gendered, raced, classed etc.) discuss some of the implications of the mining boom for contemporary Australian lifestyles. You might want to focus on a political case study such as the influence of the mining industry on the repeal of both the mining and carbon taxes, Gina Rinehart’s status as powerful force in the Australian media landscape, or the complicated relationship between Indigenous and white Australian discourses and communities.
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