“How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition

Nott, John

doi:10.1111/padr.12198

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“… Waterlow and Wills, 1960 ). In other tropical British colonies, there was a similar focus on protein deficiency which, as Nott (2018) has argued, was a continuation of the work of the Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire that had presented child malnutrition as a problem of quality not quantity. Only gradually was a more complex understanding of child malnutrition advanced, leading to the adoption of the now widely used protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) spectrum, which covers a range of conditions from a consistent lack of dietary protein and/or energy.…”

Section: Measuring and Understanding Child Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Many lower-class mothers introduced the bottle to imitate those above them because the better-off tended to only bottle feed. But by the late 1960s, as in various other developing countries (see Nott, 2018 , p. 779; Tappan, 2017 ) these women were also increasingly targeted by commercial milk companies. Newspaper adverts, billboards and other advertising hailed formula as ‘the best food for infants’.…”

Section: Measuring and Understanding Child Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many other developing countries, fiscal austerity programmes adopted at the insistence of international lenders led to an increase in child malnutrition, particularly because state-funded nutrition programmes were significantly cut (e.g. Nott, 2018 , pp. 783–784).…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Child Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was also common in many other developing countries. Nott (2018 , p. 783), for example, has observed that the SAPs in many African countries in the 1980s increased the presence of NGOs and charities in the healthcare sector, including nutrition programmes.…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Child Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only more recently have scholars (e.g. Nott, 2016 , 2018 ; Pernet and Forclaz, 2018 ; Redfield, 2012 ; Scott-Smith, 2013 , 2014a , 2014b , 2015 ; Tappan, 2017 ) begun to examine approaches taken by post-independence governments and aid agencies to nutrition, focussing particularly on child malnutrition.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tackling child malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020

Altink

2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the coexistence of pockets of high child malnutrition with rising levels of childhood obesity. Based on a wide range of sources, including public documents, newspaper reports, scientific studies and reports by international agencies, this article examines a gradual decline in child malnutrition and the rise of the double burden of malnutrition in Jamaica from independence to the present. It will first of all show that changes in the global economy and overseas loans and aid both aided and limited the ability of the Jamaican government to lower child malnutrition levels and also contributed to a rise in childhood obesity. Second, it will illustrate that a traditional deficit-led approach to child malnutrition was followed in post-independent Jamaica, focussing on the public and individuals as targets for intervention and using quantitative measures to trace progress. And third, it will question whether the double burden of child malnutrition will give rise to 'healthy publics'-'dynamic collectives of people, ideas and environments that can enable health and well-being'.

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Section: Measuring and Understanding Child Malnutritionmentioning

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Section: Measuring and Understanding Child Malnutritionmentioning

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The framing of malnutrition by parliamentarians in Uganda

Namugumya

Candel

Termeer

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Health Policy and Planning

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The quest for political commitment to reducing malnutrition in sub-Sahara Africa draws attention to the role of national parliamentarians. Whereas parliamentarians have the authority to ratify legislation, monitor policies and budgets and transform behaviour, to date little is known about how malnutrition is understood and debated in sub-Saharan African political arenas. This study addresses that gap by exploring how (mal)nutrition has been framed by parliamentarians in Uganda between 2001 and 2017. Applying framing theory we performed a qualitative content analysis of 131 Parliament Hansards transcripts to determine the different meanings of nutrition. Our analysis distinguishes seven co-occurring frames that entail different, sometimes competing, understandings of the drivers and possible solutions of malnutrition. The frames are: (i) the emergency nutrition frame, (ii) the chronic vulnerability frame, (iii) the school feeding frame, (iv) the disease-related frame, (v) the diversification frame, (vi) the overnutrition (among politicians) frame and (vii) the poverty and inequality frame. These frames are sponsored by different groups of parliamentarians, most notably politicians representing constituencies with high degrees of malnutrition, the president, some ministers and politicians in parliamentary forums concerned with children and women issues. Our analysis helps to understand why policy measures get prioritized or disregarded by policymakers. Overall, we show that frame sponsors prioritize short-term tangible solutions, such as food assistance and agricultural inputs, over longer term solutions. We suggest that a more comprehensive policy frame is prerequisite to developing a more effective governance approach to malnutrition in Uganda.

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The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment

King

Weedon

2021

Sociology of Sport Journal

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This article raises the ecological substance and relational co-constitution of bodies as a generative question for sociologists of sport and physical culture. It proceeds from our observation that recent research on the materiality of athletic bodies, and on the environmental issues in which sport is implicated, tends to run on parallel tracks. By exploring how biological, environmental, and social natures cohere in the making and unmaking of healthy bodies, our aim is to connect and extend these vibrant areas of research. We do so by developing the concept of “ecological embodiment,” a descriptor for a fluid state of becoming and a sensibility for thinking about hierarchical socioecological entanglements. To illustrate this concept, we draw on a study of whey protein powder, a key ingredient in contemporary fitness cultures.

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“How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition

Cited by 7 publications

References 48 publications

Tackling child malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020

Tackling child malnutrition in Jamaica, 1962–2020

The framing of malnutrition by parliamentarians in Uganda

The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment

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