Traveling with Sugar

PART ONE. CONTEXTS Approach Emergency in Slow Motion Shorelines—A Global Epidemic as Seen from Belize—Traveling with Sugar—Errata: Methods and Mistakes—Slow Care Past Is Prologue Sugar Machine Sweetness—Sugar Roads—Chronic Landscapes—Diabetes Multiple— Still. There What Is Communicable? Caregivers in an Illegible Epidemic Foot Soldiers—Non-Traumatic Measures—Displaced Surveillance— Mixed Metaphors—Para-Communicable Conditions—Geographies of Blame—Three Atmospheres PART TWO. CRONICAS Crónica One: Thresholds Traveling an Altered Landscape with Cresencia The Normal and the Extraordinary—Ancestral Discontent—Coral Gardens and Their Metabolism—Sugar Girls—Land Tenure (Is This Legal?)—On the Other Side—Dr. Saldo—Great White Hazards— Healthy Living Made Fun and Easy!—Straddling Crónica Two: Insula Technology, Policy, and Other Units of Jordan’s Isolations Type What?—Islands and Empire—Global Policy Gaps—Other Orphans—Unsteady Units—Many Machines—The Life of Muerte— Design Archipelagos—Counting Crónica Three: Generations Approaching “Biologies of History” with Arreini and Guillerma Scientific Racism: Lineages—Housekeeping—Trans-Plantation— Epidemiological Transition—Hunger and Diabetes—What Is the “Epi” in Epigenetics?—Prevention—Blood’s Sugar—Quicksilver— Sequencing Crónica Four: Repair Work Maintenance Projects with Laura, Jose, and Growing Collectives Halfway Technologies—Phantom Limbs—Sugar Shoes—Dialysis: Pressure—“We Don’t Want to Die”—Food Infrastructures—Between Hurricanes—Prosthetic Hope International—Holding Measures— The Gradual Instant Epilogue Dedication Acknowledgments About Translations Image Credits Notes Bibliography Index