Coloniality of Modern Taste - A Critique of Gastronomic Thought

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.

List of contents

Introduction: What Is Gastronomy?
1. The Narrative of Gastronomic Progress
2. Desensualizing Taste
3. Bureaucratizing Taste
4. Racializing Taste
5. Taste, Otherwise
Conclusion: The Gustatory Logic of Consumer Capitalism

About the author

Zilkia Janer is a Professor of Global Studies and Geography at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Zilkia Janer, Zilkia (Hofstra University) Janer, Janer Zilkia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032364032
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3236403-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Colonialism & imperialism, Food & society, Colonialism and imperialism, Human Geography, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Cultural studies: food and society, National liberation and independence, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity