Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era

The book explores the relationship between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action in the post-truth eras, focusing on activist alimentary performances that reveal how these modes of performance are being co-opted by authoritarians and others to promote injustice and misinformation. It offers insights into how performers, cooks, scholars, artists, and activists can cultivate models of alimentary performance that center plenitude, joy, and justice while pushing back against models rooted in anxiety, diminishment, and cruelty.

Format: Hardback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the captivating world of historical and contemporary activist alimentary performances, seeking to uncover the profound insights they offer into the evolving dynamics between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action in the post-truth era. Fueled by a pressing desire to explore the ethical implications of multisensory models of knowledge, truth, and justice, this inquiry emerges as a response to the urgent need for a more just society.

At the same time, it endeavors to understand how these performance modes are being co-opted by authoritarians, white supremacists, anti-science activists, and others to perpetuate injustice, spread misinformation, and fiercely protect the existing systems of power and privilege.

Through a comprehensive analysis of both disturbing and inspiring alimentary events, Kristin Hunt delves into the ways in which performers, cooks, scholars, artists, and activists can cultivate models of alimentary performance that prioritize plenitude, joy, and justice while actively challenging those rooted in anxiety, diminishment, and cruelty.

This text holds immense appeal for students enrolled in performance studies, contemporary theatre, theatre history, as well as courses in food studies and popular culture. It serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to unravel the intricate connections between alimentary performances, sensory experiences, and the broader socio-political landscape of our times.

Weight: 550g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032372242