The Coloniality of Modern Taste

This book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomy's engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste.

Autorentext

Zilkia Janer is a Professor of Global Studies and Geography at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Inhalt

Introduction: What Is Gastronomy?

1. The Narrative of Gastronomic Progress

2. Desensualizing Taste

3. Bureaucratizing Taste

4. Racializing Taste

5. Taste, Otherwise

Conclusion: The Gustatory Logic of Consumer Capitalism