'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy |
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| Authors: | Bethan Evans |
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| Institution: | Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT Email: |
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| Abstract: | In many countries, obesity is high on public health policy agendas, and geographical research has begun to engage with obesity. However, obesity is a highly contested term, and recent debates about geographers' engagement with policy, and critical discussions of the presence of bodies in medical geography, bear great relevance for developing a critical perspective on dominant 'obesity discourse'. Through a critical reading of a recent UK policy document, this paper considers the presence of bodies in (anti)obesity campaigns, calling for a more critical approach to the medicalization of body size to be central to future geographical work on obesity. |
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| Keywords: | United Kingdom critical geography obesity policy bodies medical geography |
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