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  title info:
    title: Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs
    sub title: Unpalatable Politics
  name:
    name part: Warin, Megan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Zivkovic, Tanya.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 228 p. 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: "This volume demands that we reckon with how obesity and its representational lives have become intensely politicized. Warin and Zivkovic skillfully balance nuance and broad relevance to shed light on the often-harmful effects of anti-obesity interventions. Their deeply reflexive examination of the social effects of good-intentions holds important lessons for policy makers and ethnographers alike. This is a sophisticated book that changes how the problem of obesity is figured while creatively reworking what counts as a solution." -Emily Yates-Doerr, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oregon State University, USA, and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands "This is a detailed and insightful ethnographic account of how fatness and obesity are constructed as problems among people living in circumstance of disadvantage in suburban Australia. The authors show how and why a well-meaning programme promoting healthy eating in France was lost in translation in Australia. A must-read for absolutely anyone with an interest in poverty, fatness and health in high income countries." -Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK 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. Megan Warin is a soci…
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Medical anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Social medicine
  subject:
    topic: Human body-Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Medical Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Medical Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of the Body
  classification: GN301-674
  classification: 306
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      title: Springer eBooks
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