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

ISBN(s): 9781138999718, 1138999717

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Lee Monaghan, Emma Rich, Andrea Bombak

Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, 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-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Building upon existing international literature from critical weight studies, fat studies and critical obesity research, the book advances scholarship with reference to body politics and health policy, epidemiology and obesity science, media reporting and weight-related stigma. The authors resist the common moralised narrative that ‘the overweight majority’ are lazy, gluttonous, and personally responsible for their actual or potential ills and the solution ultimately necessitates individual lifestyle change. Critique is also extended to seemingly compassionate public health interventions that putatively avoid victim-blaming through an appeal to ‘the obesogenic environment’, a consequence of modern living. Empirical case studies are grounded in women’s repeated and often frustrating experiences of dieting and schoolgirls’ encounters with fat pedagogy, which challenges dominant obesity discourse. Recognising that declared public health crises may become layered and cascade through society, this book also includes timely research on the COVID-19 pandemic response amidst concerns about lockdown weight-gain, heightened risk of infection and death among people deemed overweight and obese. Rethinking Obesity interrogates how social injustice is reproduced not only through cruelty but also through seemingly benevolent representations, pedagogies and policies. Alternative approaches and action, ranging from weight-inclusive health paradigms to broader social change, are also considered when seeking to foster collective hope in crisis times. This is valuable reading for students and researchers in medical sociology, social and population health sciences, physical education, critical weight and fat studies, and the social dimensions of the body.

Rethinking Obesity Critical Perspectives in Crisis Times 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 The politics of a ‘public health problem’

1 The global obesity crisis: Situating critique in a broader context

The ongoing world war on obesity

A matter of perspective or frames? From public health to social justice

Employing frame analysis in this problem field

Embodying politics (power): from definitional practices to body materiality

Summary and preliminary reflections

2 Critical perspectives: Key themes and meta-critique

Evolving obesity science and epidemiology: updating the critique

Early reflections on COVID-19 and obesity

Reflexivity, ‘diabesity’ and ‘the big two’

Appeals to the obesogenic environment: a more socially mindful account?

From weight-loss interventions to ‘the obesity-survival paradox’ (paradigm)

Media, ‘fat panic’ and body pedagogies

Introducing critical media studies of fatness/obesity: from movies to scientific news reports

New forms of health media as instructional: from reality television to digital media

Weight-related stigma: the embodied effects and affects of obesity discourse

Research on adults and weight-related stigma

Young people, obesity discourse and schooling

Meta-critique

Conclusion: moving the debate forward

3 Pedagogising obesity knowledges and the recontextualisation of policy

Theorising anti-obesity policy as pedagogy: the focus on communication

The pedagogic device of anti-obesity policy: a three rules approach

The distributive rules in the ORF of anti-obesity policy

Recontextualising rules of anti-obesity policy: pairing structural inequality and individualism

Evaluation and symbolic control of obesity through the PRF

Discussion: from policy analysis to social research

Part 2 Researching Matters of Fat

4 Obesity, bodily change and health identities: A study of Canadian women

Conceptual and substantive matters

The research

From hope to resignation: changing orientations to weight (loss)

Hopeful narratives: embodying a thin(ner) body and the good life?

Disordered eating distress: shadows of the past

Stagnation and weight-cycling: stalled futures

Discussion: towards changing bodies of knowledge, policy and practice

5 Exploring fat pedagogy and critical health education with schoolgirls: Rethinking ‘Britain’s child obesity disgrace’

Body pedagogies in schools: from obesity discourse to critical health education

Methodology and analysis

Girls’ understandings of health and critical perspectives

Negotiating postfeminist imperatives

Critical engagement with obesity discourse and its harmful affects

Exploring the complexities of the obesity debate

Reflecting on opportunities for critical health pedagogy

Discussion: tensions and opportunities when teaching in postfeminist times

6 Degrading bodies in pandemic times: Politicising cruelty during the COVID-19 and obesity crises

Research context, data generation and analysis

‘Diet culture at the end of the world’: insights from the Fatosphere

An unconvincing status degradation ceremony: critically analysing Campus Reform

The Campus Reform article

The publishing context: Campus Reform as a political economic project

Scrutinising readers’ comments

Discussion: from ‘health crises’ to the politics of cruelty

Part 3 Critically exploring alternatives, fostering collective hope

7 Tired of diets?: From HAES® to a more radical approach

Questioning weight-loss prescriptions: from inappropriateness to possible dangers

The need for a ‘balanced’ or ‘wide-eyed’ appraisal of the evidence

Additional problems with weight-loss prescriptions

Explicating HAES in social context

HAES as a ‘healthy lifestyle’ intervention

HAES interventions and reported (moderated) efficacy

Societal fat acceptance: resonance and challenges

Controversies, fractures and inconsistencies within and beyond HAES

Summary

8 Rethinking obesity in the (post) COVID society: Paving the way for more ‘rounded’ knowledge and collective action

Pandemics and infectious diseases in social context: some insights for the current era

Pandemic psychology in the context of the COVID-19 and obesity crises

Contested science, urgency and the politics of uncertainty

Reproducing pandemic inequalities through an affective pedagogic device

Epilogue: Resist TINA, recognise TARA

Two contrasting ideal typical spirits

Towards constructive critique: critical social science with others?

Supplanting individual with collective hope: towards another politics of life

References

Index

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