Solomon Harris Solomon

Metabolic Living (eBook, PDF)

Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

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Produktbeschreibung

The popular narrative of "e;globesity"e; posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374442
• Artikelnr.: 54790319

Autorenporträt

Harris Solomon

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Interlude. Birthday Cakes  27
1. The Thin-Fat Indian  31
Interlude. Mango Madness  65
2. The Taste No Chef Can Give  69
Interlude. The Ration Card  99
3. Readying the Home  105
Interlude. Stamps  141
4. Lines of Therapy  145
Interlude. Waiting Room Walls  187
5. Gut Attachments  193
Conclusion. Metabolic Mumbai  225
Notes  235
Bibliography  253
Index  271