2. Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome

Wiedman, Dennis

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“…This perspective on nutritional disease shows how the contradictory tendency of capitalist systems towards crises of overaccumulation and negative externalities (O'Connor, 1991) are absorbed by human bodies, often through changing cultures of consumption (Guthman, 2011: 180). Wiedman (2010Wiedman ( , 2012Wiedman ( , 2014 argues that, for Indigenous peoples, diabetes represents the embodiment of modernization through the coercive re-configuration of physical routines, foods, psycho-social stressors, and the body itself.…”

Section: Theory: Diabetes Development and Cultural Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sociologists of food and agriculture like Phillip McMichael (2006) and Farshad Araghi (2009) have examined the consequences of global economic development and agricultural restructuring. Negative nutritional health outcomes follow the displacement of traditional, long-established food and labor practices with systems that are incompatible with human metabolic processes (Dragoi and Balgar, 2013; Friedmann, 2005; McMichael, 2000; Wiedman, 2010). Rates of diabetes and other nutritional diseases skyrocket following the shift in Indigenous food-work relationships from primarily subsistence activities to more sedentary lifestyles characterized by institutional time constraints and reliance on subsidized, ultra-processed, imported staples (Jackson, 1986; Joe and Robert, 1993; Wiedman, 2010).…”

Section: Theory: Diabetes Development and Cultural Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture

Schmidt

2023

Journal of Consumer Culture

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My research explores the relationship between metabolic health and the rise of capitalist food and labor systems, through interviews and long-term ethnographic research with Maya peoples of southern Belize. As work has been replaced with wage labor and farm foods with store-bought alternatives, diabetes has begun to affect Indigenous communities in Southern Belize. “Eating the money” earned by paid labor through consumption of commodity foods and accumulation of resources is seen to produce inequality and nutritional disease. The co-occurrence of diabetes with economic success represents the emergent and contradictory risks posed by integration into consumer capitalist economies. Concern over nutritional diseases like diabetes has led to reflexive critique of the deleterious health effects of modern food and labor relationships. Research participants’ narratives emphasize the nutritional consequences of consumer culture as well as the challenges of balancing health and economic concerns in a rapidly changing world. By engaging Maya paradigms of health as embodiment with social scientific literature on political ecology and cultural studies of food systems, this article reveals that diabetes is endemic to the commodification of food and work. These findings demonstrate the integral role of commodification and consumption-oriented cultural practices to the global rise of nutrition-related diseases.

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Section: Theory: Diabetes Development and Cultural Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theory: Diabetes Development and Cultural Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture

Schmidt

2023

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…The idea of the chronicity of modernity theory, developed by Wiedman (2010), challenges us to look beyond the individual to the more significant parameters of life situations: family dynamics, political and economic inequalities, building designs, transportation systems and dominant cultural themes and ideologies. He suggests that the sociocultural processes at the global, national, local and individual levels are the causes of chronic conditions, such as the prevalence of metabolic diseases or funding shortcomings for district health interventions.…”

Section: Chronicity and Chronopoliticsmentioning

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Chronicity of disruptive project rhythms: The projectification of the ‘post-Ebola' health system rebuilding in Sierra Leone

Hubmann

2021

Time & Society

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Global health development projects are inherently governed by bounded, temporal and linear time frames: the initiation, implementation and ending of time-limited interventions. This projectification of global health programmes has wide-reaching consequences as global health projects, often unsustainable and produces both new life possibilities and uncertain futures. This article highlights the temporal effects of the global health agenda on the primary health system rebuilding efforts in Sierra Leone. Attention is paid to how the projectification of public health programmes affected the primary healthcare management in a district in the southern region of Sierra Leone. Throughout this article, I develop the theoretical concept of chronicity of disruptive project rhythms where local public healthcare actors encounter project disruptions on a continuum of chronic lack. I base this concept on Manderson and Smith-Morris’s definition of chronicity of illness experience, which is marked by punctuated episodes of acute sickness, where chronic patients are temporally transmuted into acute patients, while at the same time continuing to suffer from their ongoing chronic ailments. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic research, I show how a district health management team (DHMT) contested the bounded time frames of public health funding; how waiting time for funding impacted the operation of the DHMT and, by extension, the district health system as a whole and how DHMT employees and other actors within the health system employed time-tricking strategies to resist this project time.

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“…This notion of chronicity responds to each person's characteristics 13 and recommends looking beyond the individual and analyzing his or her family dynamics, as well as dominant ideologies on the disease, etc. 16 . Individuals with chronic illnesses must adjust their lifestyles and life projects as a func-Cad.…”

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Los vínculos afectivos en la adherencia a tratamientos por VIH y por consumos problemáticos de drogas (Argentina, 2014-2016)

Jones

Cunial

2020

Cad. Saúde Pública

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Resumen: El presente artículo analiza los cruces entre experiencias terapéuticas y vínculos afectivos en las trayectorias de dos grupos de pacientes con padecimientos crónicos: personas con consumos problemáticos de drogas en tratamiento en dispositivos religiosos de atención terapéutica; y personas con VIH bajo atención clínica y tratamiento antirretroviral. El artículo parte de una estrategia metodológica cualitativa, basada en entrevistas en profundidad. La hipótesis es que los tratamientos (farmacológicos o psicológicos) usualmente resultan insuficientes para brindar respuestas terapéuticas adecuadas a estos dos padecimientos crónicos. Los grupos entrevistados reconocen la centralidad de las dimensiones afectivas para la adherencia a las pautas de tratamiento propuestas y para un abordaje integral, y consecuentemente más efectivo, del VIH y de las adicciones a las drogas. El artículo concluye presentando una noción de adherencia que excede el comportamiento individual de mero cumplimiento de las prescripciones de los tratamientos. La adherencia es menos una experiencia personal que colectiva, en la que el entorno cercano de familiares, redes de pares y profesionales y otros referentes terapéuticos juegan un papel central.

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2. Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome

Cited by 6 publications

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Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture

Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture

Chronicity of disruptive project rhythms: The projectification of the ‘post-Ebola' health system rebuilding in Sierra Leone

Los vínculos afectivos en la adherencia a tratamientos por VIH y por consumos problemáticos de drogas (Argentina, 2014-2016)

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