Abstract / Description of output
This dissertation is about my way of being and of relating to food and nutrition as a person with ADHD traits, which I endearingly refer to as daydreaming. Using an autoethnographical approach I evaluate nutrition and nutritional systems within a broader One Health context. I employ my senses of creativity, intuition, empathy, and justice as guides, moderating how I move through and with the world. I contemplate the ontological views of being a human, a daydreamer, and a mother of a son with ADHD. In my practice, I analyse how I navigate and internalise the spaces of my modern world and nutrition as a consumer, compassionate gardener and traveler, and as an individual who is not at all an individual. My commensal world goes beyond my family, friends, and community and into the natural, microscopic world of my unique microbiome, a microbiome I share with the soil, plants, and other-than-human animals. The ethics of mental health and animal welfare are woven into the ideologies that drive my food choices. Shaped by my habitus, experiences, fields, worlds, neurodivergence, and invisible, symbiotic critters, I explore all this and more. This is my story of nutrition.
Original language | English |
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Award date | 23 Oct 2024 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2024 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- ADHD
- VAST
- autoethnography
- One Health
- other-than-human-animals
- Anthropocene
- sympoiesis
- habitus
- ultra-processed food
- microbiome