Entangled Assemblages: The Mutual Becoming of Food and More-than-Human Being

AbstractFood and life are intimately entangled. To grasp the underlying complexity of this seemingly simple statement, this article first introduces the approach to food/eating as an assemblage enacted by various heterogeneous components, and further develops it by engaging with actor network theory and material semiotics. Thereafter the focus turns to ‘entanglement’, as inspired by quantum physics, to elicit the basic dynamics of the entanglement of food and more-than-human beings, conceived of as involving mutual and differential becomings within and among assemblages. The article illustrates these entangled becomings by drawing upon examples from Sri Lanka, which in an intercultural phil…

Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka, Salla Sariola, and Bob Simpson, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, 209 pp.