Lee F. Monaghan, Emma Rich, Andrea E. Bombak

Rethinking Obesity (eBook, PDF)

Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centered health paradigm and world war on obesity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317329992
• Artikelnr.: 64044033

Autorenporträt

Lee F. Monaghan is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research and teaching largely fall within the areas of medical sociology and sociological theory. Besides advancing critical weight studies, Lee has published qualitative research on drug use among bodybuilders, physical violence in the night-time leisure economy, chronic illness among children and the embodiment of masculinities and heterosexualities.

Emma Rich is Professor of Physical Activity and Health Pedagogy, University of Bath, UK. Her research examines sport, physical activity and physical/health education from critical/socio-cultural perspectives. Working across sociology and education, her work around critical pedagogies of health and physical education has informed research projects addressing obesity policy, health education in schools, eating disorders and digital health technologies.

Andrea E. Bombak is currently Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is a social and population health scientist who leads provincially and federally funded studies on intersectional health inequities, weight stigmatisation and post-secondary food pedagogies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Politics of a 'Public Health Problem'
1. The Global Obesity Crisis: Situating Critique in a Broader Context
2. Critical Perspectives: Key Themes and Meta-Critique
3. Pedagogising Obesity Knowledges and the Recontextualisation of Policy
Part 2: Researching Matters of Fat
4. Obesity, Bodily Change and Health Identities: A Study of Canadian
Women
5. Exploring Fat Pedagogy and Critical Health Education with
Schoolgirls: Rethinking 'Britain's Child Obesity Disgrace'
6. Degrading Bodies in Pandemic Times: Politicising Cruelty during the
COVID-19 and Obesity Crises
Part 3: Critically Exploring Alternatives, Fostering Collective Hope
7. Tired of Diets? From HAES® to a More Radical Approach
8. Rethinking Obesity in the (Post) COVID Society: Paving the Way for
More 'Rounded' Knowledge and Collective Action
Epilogue: Resist TINA, Recognise TARA
References
Index