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Messy Eating

Messy Eating

Conversations on Animals as Food

Edited by Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria Niva Millious and Elaine M. Power

Contributor(s): Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew R. Calarco, R. Scott Carey, Lauren Corman, Naisargi N. Dave, Maneesha Deckha, María Elena García, Sharon P. Holland, Samantha King, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria Niva Millious, Elaine M. Power, H. Peter Steeves, Kelly Struthers Montford, Kim TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil and Cary Wolfe

Published: 2019

ISBN: 9780823283651

Page Count: 288

Trim Size: 6in x 9in

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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, María Elena García, Sharon Holland, Kelly Struthers Montford, H. Peter Steeves, Kim TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil, Cary Wolfe

Authors & Distributors
Samantha King (Edited By)
Samantha King is Professor of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University. She is the author of Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy.

R. Scott Carey (Edited By)
R. Scott Carey is a grant writer with a PhD in Kinesiology and Health Studies from Queen’s University.

Isabel Macquarrie (Edited By)
Isabel MacQuarrie is a Juris Doctor candidate at Harvard Law School with an MA in sociology from Queen’s University.

Victoria Niva Millious (Edited By)
Victoria N. Millious is a PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University.

Elaine M. Power (Edited By)
Elaine M. Power is Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University.

Reviews
Messy Eating is a perfect title for this important collection. It would be an excellent choice for different courses focusing on animal-human relationships and for other people who want to know how different people view the various ways they choose to interact with nonhuman beings and why. - Marc Bekoff, Ph.D, University of Colorado (Boulder), The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age
Eating animals will give you insights on how people outside of the agricultural industry view eating meat. - Temple Grandin, Animals Make us Human
An original and important intervention into critical animal and food studies. Messy Eating pushes us past the question 'are we what we eat?' to really inquire into the quotidian and larger political commitments that must be taken into consideration when we think about the complex layering of what we eat, how we eat--the messiness of it all. - Anita Mannur, Miami University
Table of Contents

Introduction: Messy Eating
Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie,
Victoria N. Millious, and Elaine M. Power | 1

1. Turning Toward and Away
Cary Wolfe | 19

2. Subjectivities and Intersections
Lauren Corman | 36

3. Being in Relation
Kim Tallbear | 54

4. The Tyranny of Consistency
Naisargi Dave | 68

5. Justice and Nonviolence
Maneesha Deckha | 84

6. Doing What You Can
Kari Weil | 99

7. Waking Up
H. Peter Steeves | 112

8. Entangled
María Elena García | 128

9. Disability and Interdependence
Sunaura Taylor | 143

10. Asking Hard Questions
Neel Ahuja | 157

11. Interspecies Intersectionalities
Harlan Weaver | 172

12. Living Philosophically
Matthew Calarco | 188

13. Taking Things Back, Piece by Piece
Sharon Holland | 204

Coda: Toward an Analytic of Agricultural Power
Kelly Struthers Montford | 223

Coda: Thinking Paradoxically
Billy-Ray Belcourt | 233

Acknowledgments | 243

Recommended Reading | 245

List of Contributors | 255

Index | 259

Details

ISBN-13 9780823283651

Published: 2019-06-04

Contributors

Contributions: Neel Ahuja
Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of the Species (Duke University Press, 2016). His articles have appeared in GLQ, Social Text, and PMLA, among other venues.

Contributions: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a scholar and poet from the Driftpile Cree Nation. A Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford from 2016–17, he is currently a PhD student at the University of Alberta. Belcourt’s work has appeared in Settler Colonial Studies and Societies, among other venues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Wound Is a World, which won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Contributions: Matthew R. Calarco
Matthew R. Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2008) and Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (Stanford University Press, 2015).

Contributions: R. Scott Carey
R. Scott Carey is a grant writer with a PhD in Kinesiology and Health Studies from Queen’s University.

Contributions: Lauren Corman
Lauren Corman is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. She is the editor of a special issue of UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, co-editor of Animal Subjects 2.0 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016), and the founder and former producer of the radio program Animal Voices.

Contributions: Naisargi N. Dave
Naisargi N. Dave is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke University Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in Social Text, Cultural Anthropology, and Feminist Studies, among other venues. Her book in progress is titled The Social Skin: Humans and Animals in India.

Contributions: Maneesha Deckha
Maneesha Deckha is Professor and the Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria. She is the author of numerous articles published in such journals as Ethics & the Environment, Journal of Animal Law and Ethics, Hypatia, the McGill Law Journal, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. She has also contributed to a variety of edited collections in feminist legal, postcolonial, and critical animal studies.

Contributions: María Elena García

María Elena García is Associate Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas program and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru (Stanford University Press, 2005), with a second book, Culinary Spectacles: Gastro-Politics and
Other Tales of Race and Species in Peru
, under contract with the University of California Press.

Contributions: Sharon P. Holland
Sharon P. Holland is the Townsend Ludington Term Distinguished Endowed Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000) and The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012). She blogs at http:// theprofessorstable.wordpress.com / and is currently working on an investigation of the human–animal distinction, and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion.

Contributions: Samantha King
Samantha King is Professor of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University. She is the author of Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy.

Contributions: Isabel Macquarrie
Isabel MacQuarrie is a Juris Doctor candidate at Harvard Law School with an MA in sociology from Queen’s University.

Contributions: Victoria Niva Millious
Victoria N. Millious is a PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University.

Contributions: Kelly Struthers Montford
Kelly Struthers Montford is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Punishment, Law and Social Theory at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Alberta in 2017. Her work has appeared in the New Criminal Law Review, PhiloSophia, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, among other venues.

Contributions: Elaine M. Power
Elaine M. Power is Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University.

Contributions: H. Peter Steeves
H. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center at DePaul University. He is the author of several books, including Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (SUNY Press, 1999), The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (SUNY Press, 2006), and Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Life of Art (SUNY Press, 2017).

Contributions: Kim TallBear
Kim TallBear is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and a member of the Oak Lake Writers, a group of Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota (Oceti Sakowin) writers.

Contributions: Sunaura Taylor
Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books Ecofeminism, Defiant Daughters, Occupy!; Stay Solid; and Infinite City.

Contributions: Harlan Weaver
Harlan Weaver is Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department at Kansas State University. He has written articles on queer intimacies in multispecies ethnography; interspecies intersectionalities in dog fighting, rescue, and training; and trans affect in GLQ, Catalyst, American Quarterly, and Somatechnics.

Contributions: Kari Weil
Kari Weil is University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Hypatia entitled “Animal Others” (Gruen & Weil, 2012) and author of Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now (Columbia University Press, 2012). Her book Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France: Mobility, Magnetism, Meat is forthcoming.

Contributions: Cary Wolfe
Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

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