1st Edition
Rewilding Food and the Self Critical Conversations from Europe
Introduction. Food, self and search for the wild.
Tristan Fournier & Sébastien Dalgalarrondo
Part 1: The taste for tradition and the hunter-gatherer model
1. Eating wild game: A new carnivorous morality?
Olivier Lepiller, Ophélie Roudelle & Sandrine Dury
2. From remorse to "hunter pride": On a study of those who eat game
Sergio Dalla Bernardina
Part 2: Promises and market
3. "Natural" wines: The call of the wild grape
Christelle Pineau
4. The wild nature of "vins nature": An oeno-centered counterpoint
Léo Mariani
5. The promises of fasting: Between animal and primitive models
Sébastien Dalgalarrondo & Tristan Fournier
6. The self, the other and the world: The issues of today’s fasting practice
Ophélie Bidet
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.
Flaminia Paddeu & Fabien Roussel
8. Urban scavenging: Another way to rewild the self in the city
Sabine Mégarbané
9. The wild side of man. How animal metaphors shape masculine food practices and midlife transitions.
Nicoletta Diasio & Vulca Fidolini
10. "Heavy food" and "being in nature". Revisiting male manual workers’ narratives on work, food and health.
Gun Roos
Conclusion. The wild in gastronomy and beyond
Sébastien Dalgalarrondo & Tristan Fournier
Biography
Tristan Fournier is a sociologist and research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS – Iris, Paris).
Sébastien Dalgalarrondo is a sociologist and research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS – Iris, Paris).
"This is an original and thought-provoking book about practices and meanings of 'rewilding' food across Europe. Cases of hunting game, foraging in the countryside, dumpster-diving in the city, and producing 'natural' wine uncover how fascination with the wild highlights key moral, environmental, social, and health issues in contemporary eating practices."
Carole Counihan, Editor-in-Chief, Food and Foodways
"There is in the attraction for the 'wild' a will to break with the established order. This theme regularly reappears in current social life and has evolved according to historical contexts. 'Rewilding Food and the Self: Critical Conversations From Europe' focuses on the contemporary version and analyzes its current and timeless social issues."
Jean-Pierre Poulain, Université de Toulouse, France.
