Gut Knowledges

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance.

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 multisensory models of knowledge, truth, and justice can be ethically employed to nurture a more just society. Alongside this goal is a drive to understand the ways in which these modes of performance are being co-opted by authoritarians, white supremacists, anti-science activists, and others to shore up injustice, promote misinformation, and anxiously guard existing systems of power and privilege. From white supremacist milk-drinking performances to liberatory uses of culinary performance as pedagogy, Kristin Hunt analyzes both disturbing and inspiring alimentary events to understand how performers, cooks, scholars, artists, and activists can effectively cultivate models of alimentary performance that center plenitude, joy, and justice while pushing back against models rooted in anxiety, diminishment, and cruelty.

The text should be of interest for students in performance studies, contemporary theatre, and theatre history as well as courses in food studies and popular culture.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance.

Inhalt

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