Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs

Name: Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs
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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. While there is ample evidence about the number of people who are overweight or obese and an abundance of information about what and how to eat, obesity remains ‘a problem’ in high-income countries such as Australia. Rather than rely on common assumptions that people are making all the wrong choices, this volume reveals the challenges of ‘eating healthy’ when money is scarce and how, different versions of being fat and doing fat happen in everyday worlds of precarity. Without acknowledgement of the multiple realities of fatness and obesity, interventions will continue to have limited reach.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

March 25th, 2019

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Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Illustrations

8 Illustrations, color; XIII, 228 p. 8 illus. in color.

Pages

228

ISBN-13

9783030010089

Product ID

28354260

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