Thread by @eyatesd, Glad to have co-edited a new @AmAnthroJournal Vital Topics collection with @megan_a

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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

S. Chard& #39;s essay & #39;Unending Work & the Emergence of Diabetes& #39; 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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

In & #39;Fiscal Violence in the US Food Safety Net& #39; @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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11... 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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

In "The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles’s Obesity & #39;Epidemic& #39;" @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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

Next @jessicaahardin analyzes narratives of pentecostal healing to show how people recognize the & #39;human creation of disaster,& #39; 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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

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">https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...

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