Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on
human-animal relationships have infrequently converged.
Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy
Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging
scholars about the connections between their academic work and
their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection
explores how authors working across a range of
perspectives-postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans,
feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and
multispecies-weave their theoretical and political orientations
with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption,
preparation, and ingestion. Each chapter introduces a scholar for
whom the tangled, contradictory character of human-animal relations
raises difficult questions about what they eat. Representing a
departure from canonical animal rights literature, most authors
featured in the collection do not make their food politics or
identities explicit in their published work. While some
interviewees practice vegetarianism or veganism, and almost all
decry the role of industrialized animal agriculture in the
environmental crisis, the contributors tend to reject a priori
ethical codes and politics grounded in purity, surety, or
simplicity. Remarkably free of proscriptions, but attentive to the
Eurocentric tendencies of posthumanist animal studies, Messy Eating
reveals how dietary habits are unpredictable and dynamic, shaped
but not determined by life histories, educational trajectories,
disciplinary homes, activist experiences, and intimate
relationships. These accessible and engaging conversations offer
rare and often surprising insights into pressing social issues
through a focus on the mundane-and messy- interactions that
constitute the professional, the political, and the personal.
Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew Calarco,
Lauren Corman, Naisargi Dave, Maneesha Deckha, Maria Elena Garcia,
Sharon Holland, Kelly Struthers Montford, H. Peter Steeves, Kim
TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil, Cary Wolfe
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