Debating, theorising and researching ‘obesity’ in challenging times

Monaghan, Lee F.

doi:10.1057/sth.2014.10

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“…There have also been numerous critiques of obesity from sociologists and feminists adopting very different perspectives (Murray, 2008;Throsby 2007;Monaghan, 2008;Monaghan, 2014;Rich et al, 2015). For example, contemporary Western discourses around femininity and beauty have been seen as privileging small and slender bodies.…”

Section: Obesity: the Wider Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism

Bissell

Peacock

Blackburn

et al. 2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Obesity: the Wider Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism

Bissell

Peacock

Blackburn

et al. 2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Yet, a burgeoning literature challenges or places a serious question mark over these definitional practices, what Evans, Rich, Allwood, and Davies () term ‘obesity discourse’ (e.g. Bombak, Monaghan, & Rich, ; Cameron & Russell, ; Campos, Saguy, Ernsberger, Oliver, & Gaesser, ; Gard & Wright, ; Greenhalgh, ; Lupton, ; Monaghan, ; Monaghan, Bombak, & Rich, ; Monaghan, Colls, & Evans, ; O'Hara & Taylor, ; Rich, Monaghan, & Aphramor, ; Rothblum & Solovay, ; Wright & Harwood, ). Some of this literature also interrogates media messaging and frames (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media, ‘Fat Panic’ and Public Pedagogy: Mapping Contested Terrain

2018

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Discourses regarding a ‘global obesity crisis’ and alternative frames (e.g. weight‐inclusive approaches to health) have proliferated through various media of communication. These media range from traditional print and visual formats (e.g. newspapers and television shows) to digital media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), which enable different publics to produce, and not just consume, text, images and other data relating to the body. Reflecting a sociological understanding of educational practices as extending beyond formal schooling, mediated obesity discourse and counter‐movements have also been conceptualised as public pedagogies, which instruct people how to relate to their own and other's bodies, health and subjectivities. This article examines what is critically known about various media at a time when governments and agencies are reinvigorating the global war on obesity, with populations being ‘advised’ to become and remain conscientious weight watchers. In conclusion, the article underscores the salience of social studies of the media when seeking to rethink obesity, incorporating critical reference to moral panic theory and the need to better understand what media can ‘do’ as enactments of public pedagogy.

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“…With two thirds of adults and one third of children in the UK overweight or obese 1 (Department of Health, 2008: xi), obesity has been described as an 'epidemic' (Gortmaker et al, 2011, Monaghan, 2014, and considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2000(WHO, , 2013 as a major challenge for public health in both the developed and developing world.…”

Section: Introduction: Obesity Beyond Anthropocentrismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the UK overweight or obese 1 (Department of Health, 2008: xi), obesity has been described as an ‘epidemic’ (Gortmaker et al, 2011; Monaghan, 2014), and considered by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2000, 2013) as a major challenge for public health in both the developed and developing world. From a biological perspective, obesity is considered to be due to excess caloric intake and/or decreased energy expenditure, with genetic, metabolic and environmental determinants (Department of Health, 2008: 3; Gortmaker et al, 2011: 838).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Micropolitics of Obesity: Materialism, Markets and Food Sovereignty

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This paper shifts focus from an individualised and anthropocentric perspective on obesity, and uses a new materialist analysis to explore the assemblages of materialities producing fat and slim bodies. We report data from a study of adults' accounts of food decision-making and practices, investigating circulations of matter and desires that affect the production, distribution, accumulation and dispersal of fat, and disclose a micropolitics of obesity, which affects bodies in both 'becoming-fat' and 'becoming-slim' assemblages. These assemblages comprise bodies, food, fat, physical environments, food producers and processing industries, supermarkets and other food retailers and outlets, diet regimens and weight-loss clubs, and wider social, cultural and economic formations, along with the thoughts, feelings, ideas and human desires concerning food consumption and obesity. The analysis reveals the significance of the marketisation of food, and discusses whether public health responses to obesity should incorporate a food sovereignty component.

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Debating, theorising and researching ‘obesity’ in challenging times

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism

The discordant pleasures of everyday eating: Reflections on the social gradient in obesity under neo-liberalism

Media, ‘Fat Panic’ and Public Pedagogy: Mapping Contested Terrain

The Micropolitics of Obesity: Materialism, Markets and Food Sovereignty

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