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But you wouldn’t know it to look at a newspaper.
What is it like to be a fat person in a fat-shaming world? What are the political and ideological underpinnings of the ‘obesity crisis’? Fat studies is an emerging academic field that asks such questions.
Nothing to Lose, by dance theatre company Force Majeure, invites the audience to engage with the richness, nuance, and variety of fat bodies and fat experiences.
My Twitter feed blew up with retweets of Dezeen’s February 4 2014 article on Danish design student Nanna Kiil’s Flesh Chair, which she had entered in the 2014 Stockholm Furniture Fair. According to her…
Obesity is commonly regarded as one of the most significant threats to health in the developed world. It is strongly linked with cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and impaired mobility. Governments…
People who are deemed overweight or obese (as the medical terms have it) or fat (as many fat activists prefer to call their body size) suffer discrimination, prejudice and humiliation from several fronts…
Fat in food can reduce activity in several areas of the brain that are responsible for processing taste, aroma and reward…
A usual academic event had a rather unusual impact earlier this month – a conference drew international media attention. Fat Studies: Reflective Intersections took place at Massey University in Wellington…
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick
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The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity, University of Leeds
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Research Fellow in Public Health and Obesity, Leeds Beckett University
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Head of HR Research Development, Institute for Employment Studies, Lancaster University
