LEADER 04703nam 22006975 450 001 9910337712403321 005 20240326125256.0 010 $a9783030010096 010 $a3030010090 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-01009-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000007810262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5734446 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-01009-6 035 $a(Perlego)3492569 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007810262 100 $a20190318d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs $eUnpalatable Politics /$fby Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) 311 08$a9783030010089 311 08$a3030010082 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aMedical anthropology 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aSocial medicine 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 606 $aEthnography 606 $aMedical Anthropology 606 $aSocial Structure 606 $aMedical Sociology 606 $aSociology of the Body 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aMedical anthropology. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aSocial medicine. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 14$aSociocultural Anthropology. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aMedical Anthropology. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 615 24$aMedical Sociology. 615 24$aSociology of the Body. 676 $a394.120994 676 $a306.4613 700 $aWarin$b Megan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01049090 702 $aZivkovic$b Tanya$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337712403321 996 $aFatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs$92500729 997 $aUNINA