What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat's entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Irina Aristarkhova, Sushmita Chatterjee, Mel Y. Chen, Kim Q. Hall, Jennifer A. Hamilton, Anita Mannur, Elspeth Probyn, Parama Roy, Banu Subramaniam, Angela Willey, Psyche Williams-Forson
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The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality.
Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam  1 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn  17 2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova  39 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton  61 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee  96 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur  121 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall  139 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy  162 8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson  194 9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja  213 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey  241 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam  254 12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen  279 About the Contributors  293 Index  293
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“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.”
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478010951
Publisert
2021-03-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Sushmita Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Appalachian State University.

Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.