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Spectacles of revulsion: The challenges of “Bush-tucker” as contemporary cuisine
Coined in the 1880s as a phrase combining “bush”—vernacular for the Australian topography—and “tucker”—an idiom for “food”—the cultural commodification of “bush-tucker” makes for instructive reading in the ecopolitical implications of cultural evolutions in food commodification, and the cultural fashioning of food forms as popular entertainment. The contemporary aestheticization of “bush-tucker” as pejorative is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in reality television programs such as I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here, Survivor, and The Biggest Loser, among others. Whereas nineteenth-century white colonists often survived on “bush-tucker” while simultaneously disavowing its Indigenous origins, the so-called “survival” of contemporary reality-show contestants relies as much on their capacity to endure food-trials in which the consumption of these “bush” forms signifies triumph over repulsion as on defining such challenges as the ultimate spectacle of ingestion and revulsion as popular entertainment.
History
Editor
Davis HL; Pilgrim K; Sinha MParent Title
Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food TradeStart Page
33End Page
55Number of Pages
23ISBN-13
9781498519953Publisher
Rowman & LittlefieldPlace of Publication
Lanham, MDOpen Access
- No
External Author Affiliations
Not affiliated to a Research Institute; School of Education and the Arts (2013- );Era Eligible
- Yes