Rethinking Obesity - Monaghan, Lee F.

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Auteur(s) : Monaghan, Lee F. - Rich, Emma - Bombak, Andrea E.

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 302.0

Expédition : 456

Dimensions : 15.6 x 23.5 x 1.6

ISBN : 1138999741

Résumé :

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.

Biographie:

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.

Sommaire:

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