Dear all
Some on the list may be interested in the following call for papers for sessions
at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San
Francisco next April.
Best
Steve Cummins
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Call for papers – Contested geographies of obesity
AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA 17-21 April, 2007
Session Organisers: Rachel Colls, University of Durham; Steven Cummins, Queen
Mary, University of London;; Bethan Evans, University of Liverpool; Dianna M.
Smith, University of Leeds;.
Geographical engagements with issues of size/fatness/obesity are wide ranging
and can be contextualised within a variety of subdisciplinary interests. This
session aims to demonstrate the significance of these different approaches as
well as outlining the connections and tensions within them. Engagements with
size/fatness/obesity reflect the multiple ways in which the fat/obese body can
be conceptualised. This includes building upon medical and public health
policies concerning what has been termed the ‘epidemic of obesity’ in order to
identify and explain the spatial variations and environmental causes and
consequences of overweight. This can be seen, for example, through work on
‘obesogenic’ environments, and through investigations of local, regional and
global variations in the incidence of and responses to ‘obesity’. However,
‘obesity’ has also been recognised as a contested term within critical
geographical work which highlights the need to recognise the uncertainties
behind current methods of defining and diagnosing obesity. This can be seen in
the growth of geographical work on size/fatness/obesity/ which considers the
embodied and emotional experiences of living as a fat/obese body, within wider
discourses which link body size, shape and composition with ill health.
This call for papers therefore seeks to unpack the contemporary social, health,
economic and cultural geographies of obesity in the developed and developing
world. The aim therefore is not to set up opposing geographical accounts of
size/fatness/obesity. Instead, the sessions seek to acknowledge that the
diversity of geographical approaches is reflective of the complexities of
encountering bodies in a range of theoretical, empirical and methodological
contexts and also to highlight the common motivation to improve the health /
well-being of those who are defined, by themselves or others, as overweight
Abstracts are invited in relation to the following topics. Please note this
list should not be seen as exhaustive and are only suggestive of the topics
that may be of interest:
Terminology: defining fat/big/obese/corpulent
Theorisations of ‘the fat body’
Environmental determinants of obesity
Fat activism
Obesogenic environments
Morality and body size
Global demography and obesity
‘Active’ fat bodies
Obesity policy
Medical and Surgical interventions
Eating and consumption
The obesity debate’ in western and non-western contexts
Emotions and fatness
Fatness and (dis)ability
Bodily textures and boundaries
Surveillance and children’s bodies
Dieting, weight loss and bodily modification
Methodological practices and researching with/as bigness
Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask] by Friday 22nd September 2006. Abstracts should be in
accordance with AAG guidelines.
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Dr Steven Cummins
MRC Fellow
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 5400
Fax: 020 8981 6276
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Steven Cummins
MRC Fellow
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 5400
Fax: 020 8981 6276
Email: [log in to unmask]
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