HATCH Speaker Series: MEAT! Roundtable

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Speaker Series: MEAT! Roundtable

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Join us for a roundtable discussion with the editors and contributors of Meat! A Transnational Analysis. Duke University Press, 2021. Participants include editors Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, as well as contributors Neel Ahuja, Jennifer Hamilton, Kim Q. Hall, Parama Roy, Angie Willey.

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What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat's entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism.

Part of the "Conceptual Territories: Unhatching" Series
A space to breach what might be called conceptual territories: not only the sites and objects of study confined to traditional disciplines, but also the cross and trans disciplinary concepts like gender, race, science, capitalism, etc. that seem fungible but whose meaning takes on the coordinates of the spaces and histories of the disciplinary sites and genealogies that summon them.

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