Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals

Paula Arcari is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow hosted by Edge Hill University in Lancashire, UK. Seeking to understand the human-animal binary and challenge habitual ways of thinking and acting involving animals, Paula’s current research focuses on the visual consumption of spectacularised animals at zoos, racing events, and agricultural shows.

• Part I.- 1. Introduction.- Part II: Background.- 2. The Problem with ‘food’ animals.- 3. Theoretical Framwork: Advancing and Enacting a Critical Posthumanism.- Part III: Categories and Boundaries.- 4. Animal Categories and the Maintenance of Order.- 5. Negotiating Edibility.- Part IV: The (Dis)Pleasure of Knowing (about Animals & Meat).- 6. Sensory Connections and Emotional Knowledge.- 7. Feelings of Meat.- Part V: The Power of Transparency.- 8. Entitlement.- 9. Visibility: Inviting an Untroubled Gaze.- Part VI: Conclusion.- 10. Undoing Cartographies of Meat.