Eating in class : notes on nourishment and decolonial pedagogy

Abstract

The article aims to reflect on themes and questions that potentially advance decolonial teaching tactics tactics – via the gut. The author designed and taught a course for anthropology students at Sol Plaatje University in 2019 (one of two post-Apartheid South African Universities). The article describes the course and some of its outcomes. Scholars have tended to underestimate the power of nourishing food to help us understand how death is arranged socially and spatially, and how the political and social are knit together.