Meat! : A Transnational Analysis Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. How to Think with Meat Contributors 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements 2. Eating the Mother 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat Corporeality and Politics 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbecue to Xenotransplantion 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence 8. “I Hide in Plain Sight”: Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad 9. On Phooka: Beef Milk and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat 12. Fire and Ash About the Contributors Index 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 meats 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