Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease

Abstract

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Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: Considering the Microbial Components of Social, Environmental, and Health Justice

“…Future research must examine the effects of neoliberal racial capitalism and its corollaries that promote market-based solutions, such as mass-produced commodities or lifestyles. For instance, what are the effects of industrial diets on human microbiomes or the impacts of political, economic, and social variables in shaping microbial communities ( 128 , 129 )?…”

Forging just dietary futures: bringing mainstream and critical nutrition into conversation

“…Biosocial analyses of nutrition require researchers to investigate people’s diverse explanations for how dietary practices impact bodily health and dis-ease as well as the social, structural, and historical forces that shape these human-food interactions. For example, recent studies on the microbiome link biological gut health with gendered, classed and racialized physical health (Gálvez et al 2020 ). In this sense, complex biosocial relationships physically affect the body’s ability to nourish itself.…”

“…Through projects of cultural indoctrination and race science, large populations were coded as “primitive,” and in need of saving (Farmer et al 2013 ; Raschke and Cheema 2008 ). Moreover, critical scholars contend that colonial-era power relations are reproduced in the present day through institutions like the World Bank, transnational corporations, as well as international research and development agencies working among marginalized populations in both the global South (Kimura 2013 ; McDonell 2015 ; Yates-Doerr 2015 ) and the global North (Gálvez et al 2020 ; Guthman 2008 , 2011 ). To make sense of this suffering, critical nutrition draws on the concept of “structural violence” (Farmer 1996 ), referring to the institutional politics that perpetuate notions of Western/white supremacy through an array of economic and political means, from structural adjustment packages with austerity measures to racist housing practices.…”

“…Exemplifying the notion of historical trauma, Burnett (in Gálvez et al 2020 ) looks at nutritional violence in Brazil, which she argues emerges from historic anti-blackness and state-sponsored violence. She highlights the intersections between corporate profit-seeking and racism in examining how Black women suffer from the global practices of transnational food conglomerates, which destabilize Black consumption practices and cultures.…”

“…However, over the past fifteen years, scholars from disciplines such as human geography, anthropology, history, and sociology (among others) have developed a slim but growing body of work that can be referred to as “critical food and nutrition studies” (Biltekoff 2012 ; Biltekoff et al 2014 ; Gálvez et al 2020 ; Guthman 2014 ; Hayes-Conroy et al 2014 ; Hayes-Conroy and Hayes-Conroy 2016 ). This work often grounds itself in political economic analysis, while also utilizing post-structural and feminist epistemologies that privilege multiple “truths” and see knowledge as always “partial and situated” (Haraway 1988 ).…”