Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a public health crisis to be solved, this reference work offers divergent and radical strategies alongside biomedical and positivist discourses. Comprised of thirty nine original chapters from internationally recognised academics, as well as emerging scholars, the Handbook engages students, academics, researchers and practitioners in contemporary critical scholarship on obesity; encourages engagement of social science and related disciplines in critical thinking and theorising on obesity; enhances critical theoretical and methodological work in the area, highlighting potential gaps as well as strengths; relates critical scholarship to new and evolving areas of obesity-related practices, policies and research. This multidisciplinary and international collection is designed for a broad audience of academics, researchers, students and practitioners within the social and health sciences, including sociology, obesity science, public health, medicine, sports studies, fat studies, psychology, nutrition science, education and disability studies.

Part A: Introduction Chapter 1- The Worlds of Critical Obesity Studies Darren Powell, José Tenorio and Michael Gard Part B: History Chapter 2- A Critical Obesidarium (in English) Hillel Schwartz Chapter 3- How Body Size Became a Disease: A History of Body Mass Index and its Rise to Clinical Importance Katherine M Flegal Chapter 4- Obesity in Transition: A Challenge in Modern History Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5- Obesity in Brazil: Between Liberties and Pathologies Denise Bernuzzi de Sant’Anna Chapter 6- Middle-Aged Businessman and Social Progress: The Links between Risk Factor Research and the Obesity Epidemic Isabel Fletcher Chapter 7- Crisis revisited: Historical Notes on Modern ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Michael Gard Part C: Theory Chapter 8- Devil Pray: Fat Studies in an Obesity Research World Cat Pausé Chapter 9- Not the Medicine Needed? Governing Women’s Bodies via Exercise Prescription Richard Pringle Chapter 10- New Materialist Enactment Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, and Niamh NI Shuilleabhain Chapter 11- Doing Fat with Post-Developmental Pedagogies Nicole Land Chapter 12- A Personal Reflection on Editing: ‘Unmasking’ The Critical Obesity Researcher against Itself Michael Gard Part D: Food Chapter 13- Sweetening the ‘War on Obesity’ Karen Throsby Chapter 14- Obesity and its Cures as Socio-Ecological Fixes for Agro-Food Capitalism Julie Guthman Chapter 15- Encountering ‘Healthy’ Food in Mexican Schools Jose Tenorio Chapter 16- Navigating the ‘Norma’ In Food Experiences and Healthy Lifestyles of Chines International Students in Australia Bonnie Pang Chapter 17- School Food in Australia- A Dog’s Breakfast?Deana Leahy, Jan Wright, Jo Lindsay, Claire Tanner, JaneMaree Maher and Sian Supski Chapter 18- Obesity and the Proper Meal at Workplace. French and English at the Table and (or Beyond) The Culturalist Explanation Jean-Pierre Poulain and Cyrille Laporte Chapter 19- Junk Food Marketing, Childhood Obesity and the Production of (Un)certainty) Darren Powell Part E: Bodies Chapter 20- (Re)defining Language: ‘Fat’, ‘Overweight’ , and ‘Obese’ Identities Aimee B. Simpson Chapter 21- Skinny Selves in a Fat Obsessed World Susan GreenhalghChapter 22- The Ubiquity of the Experience of Being ‘Too Fat’: Perspectives from Young People in Germany Eva Barlosius Chapter 23- A Mother of a Problem: Addressing the Gendering of Obesity Panic George Parker Chapter 24- Fighting Fat in Families Lisette Burrows Chapter 25- Goldilocks Days: Optimal Activity Mixes in Australian Children Tim Olds, Dorothea Dumuid and Melissa Wake Chapter 26- Fat Activism and Physical Activity Jenny Ellison Chapter 27- Wayfinding Obesity within the ‘VA’ of Critical Beauty Fetaui Iosefo Part F: Media Chapter 28- News Reporting on the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and How it Worsens Weight-Based Stigma Abigail C. Saguy Chapter 29- The Spectacle of Obesity in Reality Makeover Shows in Chile Valeria Radrigán and Tania Orellana Chapter 30- The Rise of the Carnivore Diet: And the Fetishizing of Ingidenous Foodways Travis Hay and Jennifer Poudrier Chapter 31- A Study of An Anti-Obesity, Anti-Obesity Campaign Jessica Lee and Benjamin Williams Part G: Policies Chapter 32- Evidence as a Fig Leaf: Obesity Policies and Institutional Filters in Denmark Signild Vallgårda Chapter 33- The Metabolic Rift Between Culture and Liberalism in Obesity Interventions and Policy Megan Warin Chapter 34- A Matter of Weight? Anti-Obesity Strategies in Spain Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz Chapter 35- New Language, Old Assumptions: The Shape Shifting Language in British Columbia’s Physical and Health Education Curricula LeAnne Petherick and Moss E. Norman Chapter 36- The Ethics of Obesity Policy T. M. Wilson Part H: Future Directions Chapter 37- Frameworks and Ideologies for Fat Non-Discrimination Rights Anna Kirkland Chapter 38- Changing Attitudes: A Review and Critique of Weight Stigma Intervention Research Patricia Cain, Ngaire Donaghue and Graeme Ditchburn Chapter 39- A Critique of Obesity as a Category of Malnutrition in All its Forms Gyorgy Scrinis Index

Michael Gard is Associate Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Darren Powell is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand. José Tenorio is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.