Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs

Unpalatable Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia’s largest childhood obesity interventions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-25
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030010089

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Megan Warin, PhD, is a social anthropologist and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (2010), published in the series Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology.Tanya Zivkovic, PhD, is a social anthropologist who holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Tanya’s book Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-Between Bodies was published in the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism seriesin 2014.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Why is Obesity Such a Political Issue?.- 3. How to Taste a Trifle.- 4. Romantic Complexity and the Slipper Slope to Lifestyle Drift.- 5. Hide the Sugar!.- 6. Fat can ‘Do Stuff'.- 7. Shades of Shame and Pride.- 8. Conclusion.