Chicken politics: Agrifood capitalism, anxious bodies, and the new meanings of chicken meat in India
Some scholars contend that the Global South is experiencing a consumer-driven nutrition transition characterized by a sharp increase in meat consumption. This article engages critically with this hypothesis by exploring the production, distribution, and consumption of chicken in Tamil Nadu (South India). Using the analytical lens of political ecology, it argues that food circuits are shaped in the interaction among political-economic processes, biophysical processes, and embodied encounters with food. In India, intensified farming and agrifood industrial capitalism affect the materialities of, and the meanings attributed to, chicken meat, making it more available, more accessible, and more desirable. The industry strives to control and conceal the animality and organicity of chicken as animal and as food. Yet new materialities and meanings are resisted by the biophysical processes that pervade the circuits of meat provision and by eaters' visceral and cognitive engagement with chicken meat. The very people who produce, sell, buy, cook, and ingest food, even though they are partly dispossessed by capitalist and state control over knowledge and economic processes, also play a role in shaping, negotiating, and resisting the material, political, and emotional dimensions of taste, and of eating practices at large.
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dig-cirad-fr-5982992024-01-29T03:32:09Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/598299/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/598299/ Chicken politics: Agrifood capitalism, anxious bodies, and the new meanings of chicken meat in India. Bruckert Michaël. 2021. Gastronomica, 21 (2) : 33-46.https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33 <https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33> Chicken politics: Agrifood capitalism, anxious bodies, and the new meanings of chicken meat in India Bruckert, Michaël eng 2021 Gastronomica S01 - Nutrition humaine - Considérations générales consommation alimentaire alimentation humaine comportement alimentaire viande de poulet industrie alimentaire systèmes agroalimentaires préférence alimentaire http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3016 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15615 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2840 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24000 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3020 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_40cb9134 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_29779 Inde http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3825 Some scholars contend that the Global South is experiencing a consumer-driven nutrition transition characterized by a sharp increase in meat consumption. This article engages critically with this hypothesis by exploring the production, distribution, and consumption of chicken in Tamil Nadu (South India). Using the analytical lens of political ecology, it argues that food circuits are shaped in the interaction among political-economic processes, biophysical processes, and embodied encounters with food. In India, intensified farming and agrifood industrial capitalism affect the materialities of, and the meanings attributed to, chicken meat, making it more available, more accessible, and more desirable. The industry strives to control and conceal the animality and organicity of chicken as animal and as food. Yet new materialities and meanings are resisted by the biophysical processes that pervade the circuits of meat provision and by eaters' visceral and cognitive engagement with chicken meat. The very people who produce, sell, buy, cook, and ingest food, even though they are partly dispossessed by capitalist and state control over knowledge and economic processes, also play a role in shaping, negotiating, and resisting the material, political, and emotional dimensions of taste, and of eating practices at large. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/598299/3/598299.pdf text Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33 10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.33 |
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Some scholars contend that the Global South is experiencing a consumer-driven nutrition transition characterized by a sharp increase in meat consumption. This article engages critically with this hypothesis by exploring the production, distribution, and consumption of chicken in Tamil Nadu (South India). Using the analytical lens of political ecology, it argues that food circuits are shaped in the interaction among political-economic processes, biophysical processes, and embodied encounters with food. In India, intensified farming and agrifood industrial capitalism affect the materialities of, and the meanings attributed to, chicken meat, making it more available, more accessible, and more desirable. The industry strives to control and conceal the animality and organicity of chicken as animal and as food. Yet new materialities and meanings are resisted by the biophysical processes that pervade the circuits of meat provision and by eaters' visceral and cognitive engagement with chicken meat. The very people who produce, sell, buy, cook, and ingest food, even though they are partly dispossessed by capitalist and state control over knowledge and economic processes, also play a role in shaping, negotiating, and resisting the material, political, and emotional dimensions of taste, and of eating practices at large. |
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Chicken politics: Agrifood capitalism, anxious bodies, and the new meanings of chicken meat in India |
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