ISBN:
9781032364179
,
9781032364032
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 174 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Routledge research on decoloniality and new postcolonialisms
Keywords:
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic studies
;
Food & society
;
Human geography
;
Humangeographie
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Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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Kulturwissenschaften: Gesellschaft und Kulinarisches
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National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
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Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus
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Popular culture
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Populäre Kultur
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SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
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Sociology
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
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. The Coloniality of Modern Taste provides an understanding of gastronomy that moves away from the usual celebratory approach. Through a discussion of nineteenth-century gastronomic publications, this book illustrates how the gastronomic notion of taste was shaped by a number of specifically modern constraints. It compares the gastronomic approach to taste to conceptualizations of taste that emerged in other geographical and philosophical contexts to illustrate that the gastronomic approach stands out as particularly bereft of affect. The book argues that the understanding of taste constructed by gastronomic texts continues to burden the affective experience of taste, while encouraging patterns of food consumption that rely on an exploitative and unsustainable global food system. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, decoloniality, affect theory, sensory studies, gastronomy and food studies
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