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.
| ISBN: | 9781032372839 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2025 |
| Author: | Kristin Hunt |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Cultural studies: food and society Performance art Sociology Medical sociology |
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.
Gut Knowledges features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Cultural studies: food and society, Performance art, Sociology, Medical sociology
Gut Knowledges is available in Paperback, Hardback
Gut Knowledges was written by Kristin Hunt and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Gut Knowledges has 204 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies series
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