Biopolitics and the Obesity Epidemic: Governing Bodies (Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Part I Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’......Page 8
1 Biopower, Biopedagogies and the Obesity Epidemic......Page 10
2 Theorizing Biopedagogies......Page 24
3 Friends, Enemies and the Cultural Politics of Critical Obesity Research......Page 40
4 Bio-Citizenship: Virtue Discourses and the Birth of the Bio-Citizen......Page 54
5 Doctor’s Orders: Diagnosis, Medical Authority and the Exploitation of the Fat Body......Page 69
6 Marked as ‘Pathological’: ‘Fat’ Bodies as Virtual Confessors......Page 87
Part II Governing Young People: Schools, Families and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’......Page 100
7 An Impossible Task?: Preventing Disordered Eating in the Context of the Current Obesity Panic......Page 102
8 Governing Healthy Family Lifestyles through Discourses of Risk and Responsibility......Page 117
9 Pedagogizing Families through Obesity Discourse......Page 136
10 Canadian Youth’s Discursive Constructions of Health in the Context of Obesity Discourse......Page 150
11 Performative Health in Schools: Welfare Policy, Neoliberalism and Social Regulation?......Page 166
12 Disgusting Pedagogies......Page 181
13 The Rise of the Corporate Curriculum: Fatness, Fitness, and Whiteness......Page 192
Part III Commentary......Page 206
14 Biopedagogies and Beyond......Page 208
Contributors......Page 218
Index......Page 222