‘Change4Life for your kids’: embodied collectives and public health pedagogy

Evans, Bethan; Colls, Rachel; Hörschelmann, Kathrin

doi:10.1080/13573322.2011.565964

Cited by 57 publications

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“…Such individualistic models of behavior adhere to the principles of neoliberalism, in which people are positioned as responsible for the management and promotion of their own health and expected to voluntarily take-up the suggestions of expert authorities in doing so (Crawshaw 2012, Evans et al 2011, LeBesco 2011, Lupton 1995, Petersen and Lupton 1996. In societies where good citizens manage, regulate and protect their health, to fail to do so, to become ill or die prematurely, is viewed as a failure of personal responsibility rather than of socioeconomic disadvantage.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“How do you Measure up?” Assumptions About “Obesity” and Health-Related Behaviors and Beliefs in two Australian “Obesity” Prevention Campaigns

Lupton

2014

Fat Studies

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This article presents an analysis of two related Australian government-sponsored "obesity" prevention campaigns, including documents produced by commercial social research companies reporting the formative research and evaluation of these campaigns. This material is critically analyzed for its underlying assumptions about weight "obesity" and the public's health-related behaviors and beliefs. These include the following: the concept of "good health" has meaning and value that is universally shared; to be "overweight" or "obese" is to be physically unfit and at risk of higher levels of disease and early death; individuals are responsible for their own health status; they lack appropriate information about health risks and providing this information leads to behavior change; and information should be provided in a way that arouses concern and a belief that individuals should make a change. These assumptions are challenged from a critical sociological perspective.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“How do you Measure up?” Assumptions About “Obesity” and Health-Related Behaviors and Beliefs in two Australian “Obesity” Prevention Campaigns

Lupton

2014

Fat Studies

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“…Similarly the need or desire to change the body through diet, exercise or cosmetic surgery is felt most keenly by women (Bordo 1993, Throsby 2008, Orbach 1993, and the Change4Life campaign has been targeted particularly at mothers (Evans, Colls and Hörschelmann 2011). In grouping together these diverse perspectives on the type and prevalence of images of transformation, my intention is not only to show that feminist theory has taken a keen interest in them, but also to begin to establish a relationship between contemporary popular cultural images and a feminist imperative for transformation that I will examine below.…”

Section: The Discursive Turn (Or What Mcneil Designates Here As the Cmentioning

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Inventive Feminist Theory: Representation, Materiality and Intensive Time

Coleman¹

2014

Women: A Cultural Review

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“…At the same time, choice is directed and governed through a host of measurements and assessments of outcomes (Miller and Rose 2008). Researchers have challenged the ways in which bodies are governed through such calculative techniques and technologies in relation to the policy attention given to obesity (Evans and Colls 2009) and alcohol (Jayne et al 2011); the ways in which different bodies are positioned as more, or less, capable of acting responsibly in contemporary public health (Colls and Evans 2008;Evans 2010;Evans et al 2011) and the ways in which particular forms of bodily matter (such as fat) come to matter (Colls 2007).…”

Section: Critical Engagements: Medicine and Health In Contemporary Bimentioning

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‘The Medical’ and ‘Health’ in a Critical Medical Humanities

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As befits an emerging field of enquiry, there is on-going discussion about the scope, role and future of the medical humanities. One relatively recent contribution to this debate proposes a differentiation of the field into two distinct terrains, 'medical humanities' and 'health humanities,' and calls for a supersession of the former by the latter. In this paper, we revisit the conceptual underpinnings for a distinction between 'the medical' and 'health' by looking at the history of an analogous debate between 'medical geography' and 'the geographies of health' that has, over the last few years, witnessed a re-blurring of the distinction. Highlighting the value of this debate within the social sciences for the future development of the medical humanities, we call for scholars to take seriously the challenges of critical and cultural theory, community-based arts and health, and the counter-cultural creative practices and strategies of activist movements in order to meet the new research challenges and fulfill the radical potential of a critical medical humanities. In the last 10 years, the number of disciplines, subjects, methodologies and individual researchers and practitioners working or associated with the medical humanities has grown J Med Humanit (2015) 36:71-81 Keywords

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‘Change4Life for your kids’: embodied collectives and public health pedagogy

Cited by 57 publications

References 48 publications

“How do you Measure up?” Assumptions About “Obesity” and Health-Related Behaviors and Beliefs in two Australian “Obesity” Prevention Campaigns

“How do you Measure up?” Assumptions About “Obesity” and Health-Related Behaviors and Beliefs in two Australian “Obesity” Prevention Campaigns

Inventive Feminist Theory: Representation, Materiality and Intensive Time

‘The Medical’ and ‘Health’ in a Critical Medical Humanities

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