04703nam 22006975 450 991033771240332120240326125256.09783030010096303001009010.1007/978-3-030-01009-6(CKB)4100000007810262(MiAaPQ)EBC5734446(DE-He213)978-3-030-01009-6(Perlego)3492569(EXLCZ)99410000000781026220190318d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs Unpalatable Politics /by Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (232 pages)9783030010089 3030010082 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."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 continueto have limited reach. Megan Warin is a social anthropologist and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Tanya Zivkovic is a social anthropologist who holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award at the University of Adelaide, Australia.EthnologyMedical anthropologySocial structureEqualitySocial medicineHuman bodySocial aspectsSociocultural AnthropologyEthnographyMedical AnthropologySocial StructureMedical SociologySociology of the BodyEthnology.Medical anthropology.Social structure.Equality.Social medicine.Human bodySocial aspects.Sociocultural Anthropology.Ethnography.Medical Anthropology.Social Structure.Medical Sociology.Sociology of the Body.394.120994306.4613Warin Meganauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1049090Zivkovic Tanyaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910337712403321Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs2500729UNINA