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Zusatztext "The trouble [this book] highlights is not a lack of knowledge, but the cruelty of a profit-driven system that allows, even encourages, living, breathing, loving, always-human people to be treated as disposable." Informationen zum Autor Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Klappentext “A remarkably original work! Traveling with Sugar overflows with critical thought! haunting prose! and trenchant details. Its gripping personal stories trace painfully intimate connections between planetary crisis! economic disparities! and human health.”—Peter Redfield! author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors without Borders “In one of my favorite passages! Amy Moran-Thomas describes how the experience of diabetes in Belize is like waiting for the hurricanes that now pummel the country with increasing intensity—beating one down with no time or technology for recovery. This is bioecological sociocultural analysis at its best.”—Kim Fortun! Professor of Anthropology! University of California! Irvine Zusammenfassung Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries! changing bodies! amputated limbs! and untimely deaths! many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction “sugar”—or! as some say in Belize! “traveling with sugar.” A decade in the making! this book unfolds as a series of crónicas —a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those “still fighting it” as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar! these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families’ arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food! land! technology! and medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE. CONTEXTS Approach Emergency in Slow Motion Shorelines—A Global Epidemic as Seen from Belize—Traveling with Sugar—Errata: Methods and Mistakes—Slow Care Past Is Prologue Sugar Machine Sweetness—Sugar Roads—Chronic Landscapes—Diabetes Multiple— Still. There What Is Communicable? Caregivers in an Illegible Epidemic Foot Soldiers—Non-Traumatic Measures—Displaced Surveillance— Mixed Metaphors—Para-Communicable Conditions—Geographies of Blame—Three Atmospheres PART TWO. CRONICAS Crónica One: Thresholds Traveling an Altered Landscape with Cresencia The Normal and the Extraordinary—Ancestral Discontent—Coral Gardens and Their Metabolism—Sugar Girls—Land Tenure (Is This Legal?)—On the Other Side—Dr. Saldo—Great White Hazards— Healthy Living Made Fun and Easy!—Straddling Crónica Two: Insula Technology! Policy! and Other Units of Jordan’s Isolations Type What?—Islands and Empire—Global Policy Gaps—Other Orphans—Unsteady Units—Many Machines—The Life of Muerte— Design Archipelagos—Counting Crónica Three: Generations Approaching “Biologies of History” with Arreini and Guillerma Scientific Racism: Lineages—Housekeeping—Trans-Plantation— Epidemiological Transition—Hunger and Diabetes—What Is the “Epi” in Epigenetics?—Prevention—Blood’s Sugar—Quicksilver— Sequencing Crónica Four: Repair Work Maintenance Projects with Laura! Jose! and Growing Collectives Halfway Technologies—Phantom Limbs—Sugar Shoes—Dialysis: Pressure—“We Don’t Want to Die”—Food Infrastructures—Between Hurricanes—Prosthetic Hop...
