You are What You (Don't) Eat? Food, Identity, and Resistance

摘要

This essay connects personal, social, and cultural frames of resistant performances and performativities. Specifically, it focuses on the politics of food resistance and of autonomy and individual/collective change. Through Foucault, the essay traces the history of technologies of self as they relate food to the performativity of everyday life. Borrowing from de Certeau, the essay outlines strategic performances around food that recenter positions of dominance in society, as well as those that offer openings into alternative positions relative to the center. Two metaphorical linkages, body as food and body as land, are explored for their uses and possibilities as strategy and tactic and their representation as either social problems or social movements.