Pub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1996922
Elizabeth L. Tingle
ABSTRACT Bias and stereotypes can be reinforced or challenged through television entertainment, and individual viewers will negotiate their interpretation of such public pedagogies through the lenses of their own knowledge and experience. The popular show This is Us presents multiple and sometimes contradicting messages about fatness and weight stigma. A close textual analysis of the first three seasons of the series revealed some of the complex and implied lessons on weight. While there are some scenes that model fat acceptance, the overall implications of the show are blaming and depict fatness as a problem to be solved.
偏见和刻板印象可以通过电视娱乐得到加强或挑战，而个人观众将通过自己的知识和经验来协商他们对这种公共教育的解释。热门节目《我们这一天》(This is Us)传达了关于肥胖和体重耻辱的多重信息，有时甚至是相互矛盾的信息。对该剧前三季的详细文本分析揭示了一些关于体重的复杂和隐含的教训。虽然有一些场景展示了对肥胖的接受，但这部剧的总体含义是指责肥胖，并把肥胖描绘成一个需要解决的问题。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1991137
Judith Schreier
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Pub Date : 2021-10-25DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1965707
Becca Chalit Hernandez, Austin Luzbetak
ABSTRACT Fat studies has produced tremendous theoretical contributions that upend hegemonic discourses posing fatness as a social problem. In spite of some key contributions, food and environmental justice literatures both have been slow to fully integrate fat studies perspectives into the study of food and environments. This paper seeks a more systematic integration of fat insights within both literatures, offering several points of departure based on existing thematic convergences. This discussion serves to establish a research agenda for scholars of critical food studies and environmental justice for transforming the existing sluggishness into a systematic treatment of the role of anti-fat discourses and structures in food and environmental systems.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-18DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1977468
Sarah A. Shelton
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1980281
Myriam Durocher
ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze various discourses held by governmental and health authorities, nutrition experts, and civil society organizations that advocate for the importance of consuming and having access to “healthy” food in order to prevent health-related risks associated with diet, such as the development of chronic diseases or conditions like “obesity.” While “anti-obesity” discourses and practices aiming to “help” the population in the fight against “obesity” connect the issue to social or even food justice considerations, I discuss how the discourse of “healthy” food plays a key role both in problematizing the fat body and in the solutions brought forward to “fix it” as well as the broader “obesity” epidemic. I argue that these two roles are closely linked together – because “healthy” food is positioned as a solution to “obesity,” it reinforces the idea that fatness can be “acted on” or solved, and thus that it should be. I mobilize works emerging in critical food and fat studies to address how these discourses and practices contribute to further marginalizing those whose bodies do not match dominant ideas of health while creating harmful and discriminatory processes that have material and health-related consequences. I contend that scholars should be attentive to the broad effectivities of ”healthy” food as arising from “anti-obesity,” or pro-health, discourses and practices as they contribute to further reproducing social injustices and can potentially materialize in damaging ways in individuals’ bodies and health.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1985813
Allison Taylor, R. Hoskin
ABSTRACT What is the relationship between fatness and femininity? How do prejudices toward fat bodies (i.e., fatphobia) and femininity (i.e., femmephobia) intersect? How does scholarship on femininities converge with scholarship on fatness? And, what novel insights can be cultivated by putting the fields of fat studies and critical femininities into conversation? In this article, we explore these questions, arguing that fatphobia and femmephobia, as well as the dominant cultural framings of fatness and femininity, are inextricably intertwined. Specifically, we challenge femininity’s associations with superficiality and oppression, discussing instead the importance of intersectional and recuperative approaches to fat femininities. Accordingly, this article illuminates the complex relationships between femininity and fatness; how these relationships differ across intersectional axes of privilege and oppression; as well as the ways femininity and fatness – or, by extension, femmephobia and fatphobia – intertwine to create unique experiences of gendered embodiment. Ultimately, with this article, we advocate for the importance of exploring diverse fat feminine embodiments and the potential for critical femininities to transform how we think about and embody fatness.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-29DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1985837
A. Higgins
ABSTRACT Food Justice – as a movement and scholarly literature – has necessarily argued for examinations of power and discrimination within food systems. However, much food justice literature has not fully examined the legislative process nor attended to its own anti-fat biases. This paper examines produce prescription programs (PPPs), focusing on key informant interviews with PPP organizers across the United States alongside participant observation at West Virginia PPPs. It argues that PPPs – and recent federal legislation which institutionalizes them – are based on prescribed conceptions of a “healthy body.” The paper considers how incentivization, a focus on chronic diet-related disease, concerns around risk, and the use of biometrics fall within the “weight-centered paradigm” of public health interventions. It ends with a brief consideration of legislation and policies that focus on structural concerns around food and health.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1975439
Stefanie Snider
ABSTRACT The #NoBodyIsDisposible hashtag has become a sign of coalitional politics built through fat and disability activism since 2019. #NoBodyIsDisposible and other hashtags have been used for both street-based and virtual activism to underline the ways in which multiple forms of oppression affect the everyday lives of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, and additional People of Color, immigrants, disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people, and fat people in the United States. This article suggests that the visual and performance-based work of activists using the #NobodyIsDisposible hashtag makes inroads in challenging oppressive tendencies of dominant culture and emphasizes the significance of visual modes of coalitional political activism.
自2019年以来，#没有人是一次性的(# nobodyisdisposable)标签已经成为通过肥胖和残疾活动建立的联合政治的标志。#没有人是一次性的(#NoBodyIsDisposible)和其他标签被用于街头和虚拟活动，以强调多种形式的压迫如何影响美国黑人、土著、拉丁裔、亚洲人、太平洋岛民和其他有色人种、移民、残疾人、慢性病患者、神经分化者和肥胖者的日常生活。本文认为，使用#没有人是一次性的(# no bodyisdisposable)标签的活动人士的视觉和基于表演的工作，在挑战主流文化的压迫倾向方面取得了进展，并强调了联合政治活动的视觉模式的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1973720
M. Edwards
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2021.1968667
J. Brady, Leigh Potvin, A. Bombak, Andrea Kirkham, K. Fraser, J. Gingras
ABSTRACT This special issue emerged from a sense of disconnection experienced by the members of the guest co-editorial team who seek to advance food justice as food studies scholars on one hand and fat liberation as fat studies scholars on the other. We assert that, despite their similarities and shared commitments to social and structural justice, there has been little cross-pollination between the fat studies and food studies communities. Fat studies scholars have rightly called out the fat hatred that has been promulgated by food studies scholars and activists, but fat studies scholars have yet to bring their incisive analyses to bear on areas of import to food studies, such as political economy of food, food systems, and food policy. This has left a significant gap in the fat studies literature, as well as an unexplored connection point for fat studies scholars with food studies and the movement for food systems change. Drawing on conceptualizations of food sovereignty in the food studies literature, and fat studies scholars’ analyses of healthism and medicalization, we elaborate health sovereignty as a conceptual spark that may lead to future collaborative scholarship and activism among the heretofore uneasy relationship among the food studies and fat studies communities.
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