1st Edition

Gut Knowledges Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era

By Kristin Hunt Copyright 2023
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era’s destabilization of shared notions of truth. This inquiry emerges in response to an urgent need to understand how... Read more

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: Feed the Trolls Until They Burst: On Truth, Justice, and Alimentary Performance as an Activist Tactic

 

Chapter 2: Got Whiteness?: Culinary Mimesis, Truth, and Justice in the Milk Industry

 

Chapter 3: Just Plain Chicken to Me: On Poultry, Progress, and Alimentary Performativity

 

Chapter 4: Surfing the Culinary Uncanny: On Pleasure, Eating-as-if, and Cooking the Future

 

Chapter 5: Toward The Alimentary Subjunctive: Alimentary Performance as Liberatory Pedagogy

 

Conclusion: From Acts of Faith to Acts of Fidelity: Alimentary Performance and Transformative Kinship

 

Index

Biography

Kristin Hunt is Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, USA.