Introduction: Flourishing with Diabetes
Jessica Hardin and Emily Mendenhall
Section 1: Diabetes Is Always Relational
1. Funeka’s Kitchen: Diabetes Healing in Soweto Living Rooms Through Prayer and Commensality in South Africa
Emily Mendenhall, Lindile Cele, Edna Bosire
2. Grace Between Wives: Living the Good Life in Senegal
Emma Nelson Bunkley, Fatoumata Diagne, Ndèye Aminata Mbaye
3. Tinkering: Getting by with Diabetes Through Creativity and Relational Care in Fiji
Edward Narain and Tarryn Phillips
4. Ancestral Healing: Learning to Relate to Sugar in Brazil
D. Burnett
Section 2: Diabetes Always Reflects Social Structures
5. Friends Can Heal Pain in the Midst of Trauma: Manuela’s and Alyshia’s Story
Manuela Fuentes and Alyshia Gálvez
6. Socio-Somatic Generativity: A Life Story from Vietnam
Tine M. Gammeltoft and Dung Vũ
7. Footsteps and Their Refusals: Tracing Sugar and Diabetes as Racial Projects in New York
James Doucet-Battle
8. Native Youth Disruptions with Health and Food in Arizona
Tommey Jodie, Jesse Pablo, Laurel Bellante, Megan A. Carney
Section 3: Diabetes Is About More Than Diet
9. Iatrochemistry: Recipes That Heal
Emily Yates-Doerr
10. Connecting Care, Connecting Chronic Illness: Community, Rural Health, and Insecurity in Hidalgo, Mexico
Emilia Mercedes Guevara
11. Don Agustin's Crafts: Patience, Skill, and Creativity in Weaving and Healing the Fabric of Life
Laura Montesi
Section 4: Diabetes Is More Than Numbers
12. Outwitting Diabetes: Measuring and Sensing the Body in India
Pallavi Laxmikanth
13. Thriving While Struggling to Access Care in India
Lesley Jo Weaver
14. Trust: The Stress of Managing Diabetes and Collaborative Care in the United States
Jessica P. Cerdeña and Genesis Santos
Complicating Conclusions: Relational Research and the Obligation to Create Space for Difference
Jessica Hardin, Saunima'a Ma Fulu Aiolupotea, Uila Laifa Lima, Ramona Boodoosingh, Tauaitala Poloie Lees, Tausala Aiavao, Falelua Maua
