UK taxpayers will be funding research into the “colonial legacies” of milk
Oxford academics will be asking important questions about milk and its connection to “colonial legacies” as part of a taxpayer-funded study.
The project, called “Milking It: Colonialism, Heritage and Everyday Engagement with Dairy,” will be based at the History of Science Museum in Oxford, and will be paid for through the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy.
One of the principal researchers has already claimed that milk is a “Northern European obsession” that has been forced on other people across the globe.
Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp has said that it’s a “white supremacist” assumption that milk should be a key part of the human diet, because most people beyond Europe and North America are generally lactose intolerant in adulthood.
She made similar remarks at a 2022 talk, “Milk and Whiteness,” at a Wellcome Trust exhibition on milk.
In an announcement that it had received funding for the new project, the Oxford History of Science Museum said: “By focusing on communities intersecting industry, aid and government regulation, the project aims to centre on heritage as a vital framework for understanding how colonial legacies influence contemporary issues and affect people’s lives.
“Through milk diaries, archival research and participatory podcasting, it will investigate historical engagement with milk, building networks with consumers and producers in Britain and Kenya.
“The project will question both the imagined and real aspects of milk, revealing the intimate and political nature of this everyday substance.”
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