The temporary as the future
Ready-to-use therapeutic food and nutraceuticals in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2247805 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Pentecost (0000-0001-8647-6533, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Kings College London. She is a physician‐anthropologist with current research interests in postgenomics and global health in Africa., corresponding author), Thomas Cousins (0000-0001-8869-1886, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 9-13 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12447 |
| OpenAlex | W2885185076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
The reconfiguration of food as a pharmaceutical in biomedical regimes has been considered by scholars along two axes: (1) food supplementation as humanitarian intervention, based on a specific value of life and delivered in 'crisis' situations with a short temporal horizon; (2) food supplementation as commodity, marketed as enhancing 'wellness' or potential, based on notions of risk in broad temporal frames. We consider nutraceuticals and ready-to-use-therapeutic foods as they are deployed by state and commercial actors in South Africa in relation to two key figures: the pregnant woman and the HIV-positive population. These biopolitical expressions of post-apartheid regimes of knowledge, care and governance reveal how state distribution and the corporate marketing of supplements employ a future-oriented logic that appeals to notions of power, energy and potential. Therapeutic foods in this context are thus not merely humanitarian technologies that reconfigure crisis as a chronic condition - the temporary becoming permanent - but are premised on new potentialities, in which the temporary may (re)shape the future
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |