Traveling with Sugar. Amy Moran-Thomas

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      UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

      University of California Press

      Oakland, California

      © 2019 by Amy Moran-Thomas

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Moran-Thomas, Amy, author.

      Title: Traveling with sugar : chronicles of a global epidemic / Amy Moran-Thomas.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018054745 (print) | LCCN 2018056398 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520969858 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520297531 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520297548 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Diabetes—Belize. | Diabetics—Case studies.

      Classification: LCC RA645.D5 (ebook) | LCC RA645.D5 M67 2019 (print) | DDC 616.4/62—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054745

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      Travel with (chravl wid): to be troubled with, suffer from; have a recurring medical problem.

      Travel (chravl): euphemism for being on one’s death bed.

      —Belize Kriol dictionary

      A lot of people, countrywide, in the whole entire world, here in Belize and Dangriga, are traveling with sugar . . .

      —Anne, reflecting on diabetic sugar across three generations of her family, 2010

      Contents

       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. CRÓNICAS

       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 Hope International—Holding Measures—The Gradual Instant

       Epilogue

       Dedication

       Acknowledgments

       About Translations

       Image Credits

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

PART ONE

      Contexts

Approach

       Emergency in Slow Motion

      Sugar . . . has been one of the massive demographic forces in world history.

      —Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power

      A lot of people, countrywide, in the whole entire world, here in Belize and Dangriga, are traveling with sugar.

      Diabetic is a dangerous thing . . СКАЧАТЬ