Milk Mania

Milk is colonialist, or something:

The Daily Mail notes that a new project is in the offing. It will be headed by Dr. Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, who is a University College London associate professor at the Institute of Archaeology. It will be based at the History of Science Museum in Oxford. The name of this study? “Milking it: colonialism, heritage & everyday engagement with dairy.” Yes, it is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. The museum released a statement regarding the scope of this *ahem* research:

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.

I didn't even know there were such things as "milk diaries."

Colonialism does a body good...