Meat!: a transnational analysis
by Chatterjee, Sushmita Subramaniam, Banu
"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contributors endeavor to draw attention towards power configurations on a transnational scale in order to inspire forms of action that are attentive to histories of colonialism, racism, ableism, and sexism that frame "meat." T…
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"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contributors endeavor to draw attention towards power configurations on a transnational scale in order to inspire forms of action that are attentive to histories of colonialism, racism, ableism, and sexism that frame "meat." Through a study of chicken, fish, beef bans, milk, barbecue, fake meat, cows, human and animal sacrifice, cannibalism, ash, veganism, exotic meat, frozen meat, technologies of meat, and various other issues and in-flows; our conversations remain productively haunted by the selective malleability and rigidity of what constitutes "meat" as it travels the world and its varied ethical imports"--
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- Publication Date:©2021
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- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:300 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781478009955, 1478009950, 9781478010951, 1478010959
- oclc:on1157908646
- LC Classification:TX556.M4
- Dewey Decimal:641.3/6
Table of Contents
How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam -- When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn -- Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova -- Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer Hamilton -- Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee -- Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the PostNuclear Age / Anita Mannur -- Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantion / Kim Q. Hall -- On Being Eaten: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy -- "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson -- Oh Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late-Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja -- Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey -- The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat . Banu Subramania/ -- Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen.
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