A taxpayer-funded project will research the connections between “milk and colonialism”.
The academic enterprise will look at the “political nature of this everyday substance”.
Professors will be funded to look at a museum collection and unearth the “colonial legacies” of dairy.
One of the experts involved in the project has argued that milk is Northern European and a “white supremacist” imposition on other cultures.
The newly announced research is backed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a taxpayer-funded quango.
There is no record yet of the figure for the grant.
Part of the project, which is titled “Milking it: colonialism, heritage & everyday engagement with dairy”, will see academics study the “milk-related” collections of the History of Science Museum in Oxford.
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