Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption

White Milk. In Denmark, ‘lactose intolerance’ refers to a medical diagnosis and a condition where the person is unable to digest lactose, a sugar found in milk and dairy products. However, 75% of the world’s population is considered lactose intolerant which raises the question: under which circumst...

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Autor principal:	Mette A. E. Kim-Larsen
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	DA EN NB SV
Publicado:	The Royal Danish Library 2018
Materias:	Social Sciences H
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/268a86d9cf58442485a0ab2056309d3d
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:268a86d9cf58442485a0ab2056309d3d2021-12-01T00:05:21ZHvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption10.7146/kkf.v25i4.1043962245-6937https://doaj.org/article/268a86d9cf58442485a0ab2056309d3d2018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/104396https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 White Milk. In Denmark, ‘lactose intolerance’ refers to a medical diagnosis and a condition where the person is unable to digest lactose, a sugar found in milk and dairy products. However, 75% of the world’s population is considered lactose intolerant which raises the question: under which circumstances is lactose intolerance considered a disease in Denmark? In order to answer this question, this article examines different subjectifying processes in relation to health, race, ethnicity, and the consumption of food, and the relation of all of these factors to milk. The analysis focuses on a publication by the Danish adoption organization Adoption og Samfund (Adoption and Society), a special issue on food. Influenced by the work of Butler (1990, 2004), Omi & Winant (1986) and Myong (2009), I find that milk comes to determine whiteness and Danishness in the publication. Consequently, lactose tolerance functions as a figure for the normalized body belonging to the white adopter, who is framed by firstness and situated in the Global North. At the same time, lactose intolerance functions as a figure for the deviant, weak, medicalized body belonging to the adoptee of colour who is framed by otherness and situated in the Global South. Hence, drinking milk (or not) positions the subject either as part of a privileged majority or an underprivileged minority. Mette A. E. Kim-LarsenThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleSocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Vol 25, Iss 4 (2018)
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description	White Milk. In Denmark, ‘lactose intolerance’ refers to a medical diagnosis and a condition where the person is unable to digest lactose, a sugar found in milk and dairy products. However, 75% of the world’s population is considered lactose intolerant which raises the question: under which circumstances is lactose intolerance considered a disease in Denmark? In order to answer this question, this article examines different subjectifying processes in relation to health, race, ethnicity, and the consumption of food, and the relation of all of these factors to milk. The analysis focuses on a publication by the Danish adoption organization Adoption og Samfund (Adoption and Society), a special issue on food. Influenced by the work of Butler (1990, 2004), Omi & Winant (1986) and Myong (2009), I find that milk comes to determine whiteness and Danishness in the publication. Consequently, lactose tolerance functions as a figure for the normalized body belonging to the white adopter, who is framed by firstness and situated in the Global North. At the same time, lactose intolerance functions as a figure for the deviant, weak, medicalized body belonging to the adoptee of colour who is framed by otherness and situated in the Global South. Hence, drinking milk (or not) positions the subject either as part of a privileged majority or an underprivileged minority.
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title	Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
title_short	Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
title_full	Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
title_fullStr	Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
title_full_unstemmed	Hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
title_sort	hvid mælk - om racialisering af mælk og laktoseintolerans i forbindelse med transnational adoption
publisher	The Royal Danish Library
publishDate	2018
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