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Teaching Embodied Fermentation Knowledges: Against Purity/ Towards Entanglement

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dc.contributor.advisorSandilands, Catriona A. H.
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Michaela Deniseen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-25T17:17:07Z
dc.date.available2018-07-25T17:17:07Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at both theoretical and practical research on embodied knowledges and fermented foods. The paper consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I discuss the history of human-microbial socioecological relations from 7000 BCE to the present. My second chapter describes my experience of teaching two fermentation workshops. I include a discussion of the participants’ description of their experiences with integrating embodied knowledges, as well as a consideration of how their perceptions of bacteria changed over the course of the workshop. I also look at the class and gendered politics of fermentation workshops in this chapter. In both chapters, I follow Alexis Shotwell's argument against purity politics which “shuts down precisely the field of possibility that might allow us to take better collective action against the destruction of the world in all its strange, delightful, impure frolic” (9). I argue instead for complicated companion species relationships in order reimagine bacteria as pleasurable kin rather than microbial antagonists.en_US
dc.identifierMESMP02869
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34855
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsFood Systems
dc.subject.keywordsPopular Education
dc.subject.keywordsFood Cultures
dc.subject.keywordsHuman Microbiome
dc.subject.keywordsPost-pasteurianism
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-microbe Relationships
dc.subject.keywordsPost-humanism
dc.titleTeaching Embodied Fermentation Knowledges: Against Purity/ Towards Entanglement
dc.typeMajor Paper

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