Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs

Unpalatable Politics

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology
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Author: Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic ISBN: 9783030010096
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: March 18, 2019
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic
ISBN: 9783030010096
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: March 18, 2019
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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. 

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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. 

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