Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race

Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru

María Elena García (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30190-0 (ISBN)

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In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this “gastronomic revolution” makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through critical readings of high-end menus and ethnographic analysis of culinary festivals, guinea pig production, and national-branding campaigns, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence in Peru.

María Elena García is Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington.

List of Illustrations
Preface: Understories
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stories of Resurgence and Coloniality

Part One: Structures of Accumulation
Interlude: Hauntings
1 • Gastropolitics and the Nation
Interlude: Eating the Nation
2 • Cooking Ecosystems: The Beautiful Coloniality of Virgilio Martínez
Interlude: "Gastronomy Is a Display Case"
3 • Staging Difference: The Gastropolitics of Inclusion and Recognition

Part Two: Narratives from the Edge
Interlude: "Apega Needs Us to Look Pretty"
4 • Gastropolitics Otherwise: Stories in and of the Vernacular
Interlude: Of Humor and Violence
5 • Guinea Pig Matters: Figuring Race, Sex, and Nation
Interlude: Chemical Castration
6 • Death of a Guinea Pig

Epilogue. Huacas Rising

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Food and Culture ; 76
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30190-0 / 0520301900
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30190-0 / 9780520301900
Zustand	Neuware