The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma

SturtzSreetharan, Cindi; Trainer, Sarah; Brewis, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s11013-021-09742-5

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“…Our four field sites are peri-urban north Georgia, United States; suburban Osaka, Japan; urban Encarnación, Paraguay; and urban Apia, Samoa. Together, we have long-term and detailed prior ethnographic experience in all four of the selected study communities (Brewis 1996;Brewis and Gartin 2006;Brewis and McGarvey 2000;Brewis, McGarvey, and Tu'u'au-Potoi 1998;Wutich 2012, 2014;Brewis et al 2011;Hardin 2015aHardin , 2015bHardin , 2016Hardin , 2018Hardin , 2019SturtzSreetharan 2004SturtzSreetharan , 2006SturtzSreetharan , 2009SturtzSreetharan , 2017SturtzSreetharan and Brewis 2019;SturtzSreetharan et al 2021aSturtzSreetharan et al , 2021b.…”

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“…Multi-sited, cross-cultural, team-based research needs to be based on a shared protocol, wherein theoretical domains can be explored in parallel across the sites (Wutich and Brewis 2019). The themes we discuss here constitute part of a larger research project, and the overall methodology is explained in SturtzSreetharan et al (2021aSturtzSreetharan et al ( , 2021b. The same queries on weight, responsibility, and blame were applied to similarly constituted samples at all four community sites.…”

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“…It is the combination, we argue, of a globalizing preference for thinness together with a globalizing belief that thinness is the result of individual management of self and individual hard work that creates virulent anti-fat stigma. Moreover, recognition that socioeconomic status, geography, and epigenetic factors influence not only weight gain but also the development of diseases typically associated with weight gain does not reduce stigma or substantially alter the individual responsibility framework (Gálvez 2018;Kwan 2009;Mendenhall 2016Mendenhall , 2019SturtzSreetharan et al 2021aSturtzSreetharan et al , 2021bValdez 2018;Warin and Zivkovic 2019). Instead, rather than attributing increases in obesity and chronic disease to structural causes, people repeatedly center notions of personal discipline and moral fortitude as key to successful body management, and this appears to be occurring across diverse sociocultural contexts (Hardin et al 2018;Saldaña and Wade 2018;Trainer et al 2021).…”

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“…We found that self-blame was present in each field site, but to varying degrees. Elsewhere we explore these variations (SturtzSreetharan et al 2021a(SturtzSreetharan et al , 2021b; in this article we draw out examples that highlight an undergirding, globalized notion of responsibility that fosters self-blame.…”

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“…It is also one of the foundations of the creation of peace. Moreover, politeness is a sub of a big umbrella called moral and character education, which is essential in this era because many young people are starting to leave the culture of politeness [18].…”

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Politeness Strategies Employed in Communication with Santri and Ustadz in an Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia

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This study on politeness and morals is a learning strategy used in the interaction between santri and kyai/ustdaz in Pesantren Salaf Al-Qur'an Sholahul Huda Al-Mujahidin. This study examined the politeness strategies of both santri and kyai/ustadz in their daily interactions and the factors underlying their use of such systems. Furthermore, a case study qualitative approach by doing observation and interview was employed as the study method. To figure out the phenomenon, Brown and Levinson's (1987) theory of politeness strategies was applied in analyzing the data: Bald on Record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off Record. From the analysis, it was figured out that all types of politeness strategies were realized in kyai/ustadz utterances. In contrast, only three politeness strategies were performed by santri. It was identified that some social factors of power and social distance triggered the santri and kyai/ustadz to execute such plans. However, another influential factor that was found to encourage the participants to employ those strategies was Pesantren Sholahul Huda Al-Mujahidin's culture of akhlak encompasses several values based upon Islamic values declared in Al Quran and Al Hadith. Maintaining and nurturing this akhlak and morality is believed to be the basis of the realization of peace.

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Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology

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Vega

2023

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This article uses ethnography and coproduced ethnography to investigate mental health labels amongst university students in the UK. We find that although labels can still be a source of stigma, they are also both necessary and useful. Students use labels as ‘campus technologies’ to achieve various ends. This includes interaction with academics and administrators, but labels can do more than make student distress bureaucratically legible. Mental health labels extend across the whole student social world, as a pliable means of negotiating social interaction, as a tool of self-discovery, and through the ‘soft-boy’ online archetype, they can be a means of promoting sexual capital and of finessing romantic encounters. Labels emerge as flexible, fluid and contextual. We thus follow Eli Clare in attending to the varying degrees of sincerity, authenticity and pragmatism in dealing with labels. Our findings give pause to two sets of enquiry that are sometimes seen as opposed. Quantitative mental health research relies on what appear to be questionable assumptions about labels embedded in questionnaires. But concerns about the dialogical power of labels to medicalise students also appears undermined.

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The Harm Inflicted by Polite Concern: Language, Fat, and Stigma

Cited by 9 publications

References 81 publications

Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame

Fat Is All My Fault: Globalized Metathemes of Body Self‐blame

Politeness Strategies Employed in Communication with Santri and Ustadz in an Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia

Is it Still Ok to be Ok? Mental Health Labels as a Campus Technology

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