Routledge Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

Explore the complex relationship between human emotion and cultural practice in this edited volume from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. This book examines how disgust appears across different societies and investigates the various forms this visceral emotion takes within both established and vernacular cultural practices. While biological perspectives often view disgust as a simple danger reaction triggered by touch, taste, or smell, this collection looks deeper. It examines the socio-cultural creation, consumption, and reception of disgust. By looking at how this emotion circulates, the contributors provide a perspective that has been overlooked in previous academic scholarship. This work is designed for students and researchers interested in how visceral experiences are shaped by the world around them. It moves beyond basic biological understandings to look at the cultural situatedness of how we experience and react to the world through the lens of disgust.