Abstract
This chapter contributes to ongoing discussions on socio-ecological transitions by foregrounding the body and embodiment in everyday consumption, with a particular focus on food practices. Drawing on post-structural feminist theory, particularly the work of Donna Haraway, it argues that socio-ecological change must be understood and enacted through the embodied, affective, and situated experiences of living beings. The chapter presents three main avenues drawn from Haraway's work to stimulate socio-ecological transitions from an embodied perspective: first, leveraging the notion of becoming-with, it will explore food practices such as making, preparing, and eating food as multi-species entanglements. Then, employing the concept of cyborg-knowing, it will discuss the research practice of attuning to the lived body to generate a visceral politics of food. Lastly, through the concept of situated knowledges, it will discuss Indigenous food practices as an example of embodied and relational knowledges. By making visible the embodied and relational dimensions of consumption, this chapter offers both theoretical and methodological tools that move beyond abstract, disembodied models of socio-ecological transition to emphasise situated knowledge, multi-species interdependence, and corporeal participation.