Sugar ecologies: their metabolic and racial effects
Sugar ecologies: their metabolic and racial effects
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DOI：
10.1080/15528014.2019.1638123
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
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通讯作者：
Gordon, Julia
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作者：
Hatch, Anthony Ryan;Sternlieb, Sonya;Gordon, Julia
在本文中，我们阐明糖生态作为粮食生产和分配的不平等和种族主义系统的产物。我们追溯糖的流动，从它的来源，后殖民地和种族资本主义，进入社会文化系统，我们称之为糖生态，推动全球糖生产，工业加工，分配和消费模式的社会系统。这些系统包括经济、政治、科学和意识形态实践网络，将种族资本主义下的全球农业贸易系统与生物暴露和糖代谢过程的超地方背景联系起来。糖的有害影响被引导糖进入黑人体内的力量放大了，成为美国黑人中毒和慢性代谢疾病的根源。这种代谢性疾病的负担也影响到代谢功能和基因表达，也产生了对营利性保健服务的需求，这些服务只能缓解，但不能治疗因接触糖而引起的慢性疾病的根本原因。我们在本文中制定的代谢分析仍然是一个未被充分利用但具有启发性的框架，通过它可以在人类世、环境种族主义和食物正义的背景下重新构建我们的文化故事和糖生态的政治分析。
In this paper, we articulate sugar ecologies as the product of an unequal and racist system of food production and distribution. We trace the flow of sugar from its sources in the postcolony and racial capitalism, into sociocultural systems we call sugar ecologies the social systems that drive global sugar production, industrial processing, patterns of distribution and consumption. These systems encompass networks of economic, political, scientific, and ideological practices that link global systems of agricultural trade under racial capitalism to the hyper-local contexts of biological exposure and metabolic processing of sugar. Sugar's pernicious effects are magnified by forces which guide sugar into Black bodies, becoming the source of extraordinary levels of toxicity and chronic metabolic disease for Black people the United States. This burden of metabolic disease, which also affects metabolic function and gene expression, also creates demand for for-profit health services that palliate, but do not treat the root causes of, chronic illness resulting from exposure to sugar. The kind of metabolic analysis we enact in this paper remains an underutilized yet illuminating framework through which to reframe our cultural stories and political analyses of sugar ecologies in the contexts of the Anthropocene, environmental racism and food justice.