Title: Gastropolitics and the specter of race : stories of capital, culture, and coloniality in Peru /
Authors: García, María Elena
Year: 2021
Subjects: Food Social aspects Peru.; Food Social aspects; Peru
Abstract: "In recent years, Peru has experienced a transformation 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, understood as a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through ethnographic analysis and critical readings of high-end menus, culinary festivals, guinea pig production, national-branding campaigns, and other elements of Peru's gastropolitical complex, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence"--
Contents: Preface : understories -- Introduction : stories of resurgence and coloniality -- Interlude : hauntings -- Gastropolitics and the nation -- Interlude : eating the nation -- Cooking ecosystems : the beautiful coloniality of Virgilio Martínez -- Interlude : "Gastronomy is a display case" -- Staging difference : the gastropolitics of inclusion and recognition -- Interlude : "Apega needs us to look pretty" -- Gastropolitics otherwise : stories in and of the vernacular -- Interlude : of humor and violence -- Guinea pig matters : figuring race, sex, and nation -- Interlude : chemical castration -- Death of a guinea pig -- Epilogue : huacas rising.