1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work offers divergent and radical strategies alongside biomedical and positivist discourses.
Comprised of thirty nine original chapters from internationally recognised academics, as well as emerging scholars, the Handbook engages students, academics, researchers and practitioners in contemporary critical scholarship on obesity; encourages engagement of social science and related disciplines in critical thinking and theorising on obesity; enhances critical theoretical and methodological work in the area, highlighting potential gaps as well as strengths; relates critical scholarship to new and evolving areas of obesity-related practices, policies and research.
This multidisciplinary and international collection is designed for a broad audience of academics, researchers, students and practitioners within the social and health sciences, including sociology, obesity science, public health, medicine, sports studies, fat studies, psychology, nutrition science, education and disability studies.
Part A: Introduction
Chapter 1- The Worlds of Critical Obesity Studies
Darren Powell, José Tenorio and Michael Gard
Part B: History
Chapter 2- A Critical Obesidarium (in English)
Hillel Schwartz
Chapter 3- How Body Size Became a Disease: A History of Body Mass Index and its Rise to Clinical Importance
Katherine M Flegal
Chapter 4- Obesity in Transition: A Challenge in Modern History
Peter N. Stearns
Chapter 5- Obesity in Brazil: Between Liberties and Pathologies
Denise Bernuzzi de Sant’Anna
Chapter 6- Middle-Aged Businessman and Social Progress: The Links between Risk Factor Research and the Obesity Epidemic
Isabel Fletcher
Chapter 7- Crisis revisited: Historical Notes on Modern ‘Obesity Epidemic’
Michael Gard
Part C: Theory
Chapter 8- Devil Pray: Fat Studies in an Obesity Research World
Cat Pausé
Chapter 9- Not the Medicine Needed? Governing Women’s Bodies via Exercise Prescription
Richard Pringle
Chapter 10- New Materialist Enactment
Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, and Niamh NI Shuilleabhain
Chapter 11- Doing Fat with Post-Developmental Pedagogies
Nicole Land
Chapter 12- A Personal Reflection on Editing: ‘Unmasking’ The Critical Obesity Researcher against Itself
Michael Gard
Part D: Food
Chapter 13- Sweetening the ‘War on Obesity’
Karen Throsby
Chapter 14- Obesity and its Cures as Socio-Ecological Fixes for Agro-Food Capitalism
Julie Guthman
Chapter 15- Encountering ‘Healthy’ Food in Mexican Schools
Jose Tenorio
Chapter 16- Navigating the ‘Norma’ In Food Experiences and Healthy Lifestyles of Chines International Students in Australia
Bonnie Pang
Chapter 17- School Food in Australia- A Dog’s Breakfast?
Deana Leahy, Jan Wright, Jo Lindsay, Claire Tanner, JaneMaree Maher and Sian Supski
Chapter 18- Obesity and the Proper Meal at Workplace. French and English at the Table and (or Beyond) The Culturalist Explanation
Jean-Pierre Poulain and Cyrille Laporte
Chapter 19- Junk Food Marketing, Childhood Obesity and the Production of (Un)certainty)
Darren Powell
Part E: Bodies
Chapter 20- (Re)defining Language: ‘Fat’, ‘Overweight’ , and ‘Obese’ Identities
Aimee B. Simpson
Chapter 21- Skinny Selves in a Fat Obsessed World
Susan Greenhalgh
Chapter 22- The Ubiquity of the Experience of Being ‘Too Fat’: Perspectives from Young People in Germany
Eva Barlosius
Chapter 23- A Mother of a Problem: Addressing the Gendering of Obesity Panic
George Parker
Chapter 24- Fighting Fat in Families
Lisette Burrows
Chapter 25- Goldilocks Days: Optimal Activity Mixes in Australian Children
Tim Olds, Dorothea Dumuid and Melissa Wake
Chapter 26- Fat Activism and Physical Activity
Jenny Ellison
Chapter 27- Wayfinding Obesity within the ‘VA’ of Critical Beauty
Fetaui Iosefo
Part F: Media
Chapter 28- News Reporting on the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and How it Worsens Weight-Based Stigma
Abigail C. Saguy
Chapter 29- The Spectacle of Obesity in Reality Makeover Shows in Chile
Valeria Radrigán and Tania Orellana
Chapter 30- The Rise of the Carnivore Diet: And the Fetishizing of Ingidenous Foodways
Travis Hay and Jennifer Poudrier
Chapter 31- A Study of An Anti-Obesity, Anti-Obesity Campaign
Jessica Lee and Benjamin Williams
Part G: Policies
Chapter 32- Evidence as a Fig Leaf: Obesity Policies and Institutional Filters in Denmark
Signild Vallgårda
Chapter 33- The Metabolic Rift Between Culture and Liberalism in Obesity Interventions and Policy
Megan Warin
Chapter 34- A Matter of Weight? Anti-Obesity Strategies in Spain
Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz
Chapter 35- New Language, Old Assumptions: The Shape Shifting Language in British Columbia’s Physical and Health Education Curricula
LeAnne Petherick and Moss E. Norman
Chapter 36- The Ethics of Obesity Policy
T. M. Wilson
Part H: Future Directions
Chapter 37- Frameworks and Ideologies for Fat Non-Discrimination Rights
Anna Kirkland
Chapter 38- Changing Attitudes: A Review and Critique of Weight Stigma Intervention Research
Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue and Graeme Ditchburn
Chapter 39- A Critique of Obesity as a Category of Malnutrition in All its Forms
Gyorgy Scrinis
Index
Biography
Michael Gard is Associate Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Darren Powell is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
José Tenorio is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.
