Glad to have co-edited a new @AmAnthroJournal Vital Topics collection with @megan_a_carney, @alyshiagalvez & @NutrireL

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13437?fbclid=IwAR0NycxSgfMLz3aZrQYQU5dbORD1F_lAq4W0t_7pfctRGboUefdWrx9bdnk

In the first essay in the series Dr. Diana Burnett gives us the incisive idea of "nutritional colonialism."

"Anti‐Blackness as the Lynchpin of the Structured Violence of Diet‐Related Disease."

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13438

In “Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome” @megan_a_carney argues that stress, lack of rest & constrained healthcare impacts the gut with a racialized effect on life-threatening illness.

“Prescriptive nutrition advice under these conditions becomes its own form of violence.”

L. Carruth ( @anthrogirrrl) demonstrates how bodies cannot be separated from their embeddedness in social relations, questioning the prevailing public health narrative that obesity & diabetes map onto one another.

"Rethinking Fatness, Rethinking Diabetes"
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13440

S. Chard's essay 'Unending Work & the Emergence of Diabetes' contests the idea that metabolic illness is caused by willful inactivity. She shows how metabolic disorder results from the constant /unpredictable motion of work in a contingent labor economy.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13441

In 'Fiscal Violence in the US Food Safety Net' @mag2d2 looks at the racist dog-whistle politics that destroy any attempts to address chronic health conditions through food assistance in the United States.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13442

(See also new @ucpress book Feeding the Crisis)

Public Health projects often focus on altering individual behavior, not accounting for seismic shifts in foreign investment & industrial manufacturing. We need disease etiologies like Susto that center social trauma.

Taking Susto Seriously @alyshiagalvez https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13443

In "The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles’s Obesity 'Epidemic'" @hannagarth asks for a rethinking of public health to consider state-sanctioned redlining, gentrification, zone redistricting & police-prison brutality.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13444

Next @jessicaahardin analyzes narratives of pentecostal healing to show how people recognize the 'human creation of disaster,' identifying political leaders & global orgs as responsible for their suffering.

"Ceaseless Healing and Never‐Natural Disasters"
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13445

10th in the series: @ahhite eviscerates the idea that chronic metabolic illnesses are necessarily diet related.

"The concepts of healthy diet & healthy food should not be taken at face value."

A Critical Perspective on “Diet-Related” Diseases

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13446