E-raamat: Meat!: A Transnational Analysis

"This volume frames meat as politics and with differential meanings as it travels the world. The contributors study the many guises of meat, through scales, and across time and place, to examine with renewed impetus the volatile and power-saturated meanings of "meat." The contributors endeavor to draw attention towards power configurations on a transnational scale in order to inspire forms of action that are attentive to histories of colonialism, racism, ableism, and sexism that frame "meat." Through a study of chicken, fish, beef bans, milk, barbecue, fake meat, cows, human and animal sacrifice, cannibalism, ash, veganism, exotic meat, frozen meat, technologies of meat, and various other issues and in-flows; our conversations remain productively hauntedby the selective malleability and rigidity of what constitutes "meat" as it travels the world and its varied ethical imports"--

What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can &;bloody&; vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat's entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as &;the chicken of the sea&; to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism.

Contributors 
Neel Ahuja, Irina Aristarkhova, Sushmita Chatterjee, Mel Y. Chen, Kim Q. Hall, Jennifer A. Hamilton, Anita Mannur, Elspeth Probyn, Parama Roy, Banu Subramaniam, Angela Willey, Psyche Williams-Forson

The contributors to Meat! examine the transnational politics of various manifestations and understandings of meat as well as meat's entanglement with power, politics, culture, race, gender, sexuality.