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Anticipating fatness: childhood, affect and the pre-emptive 'war on obesity' (2010)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2010). Anticipating fatness: childhood, affect and the pre-emptive 'war on obesity'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00363.x

This paper draws together recent geographical work on fatness, pre-emptive biopolitics, affect and childhood in order to question the spatiotemporalities of obesity policy in the UK. Through analysis of key policy documents and associated media cover... Read More about Anticipating fatness: childhood, affect and the pre-emptive 'war on obesity'.

Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics (2009)
Journal Article
Evans, B., & Colls, R. (2009). Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41(5), 1051-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00706.x

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is the dominant means of defining and diagnosing obesity in national and international public health policy. This paper draws on geographical engagements with Foucault's work on biopower and governmentality to question the p... Read More about Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics.

Geographies of Youth/Young People (2008)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2008). Geographies of Youth/Young People. Geography Compass, 2(5), 1659-1680. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00147.x

From the early 1990s onwards, geographers have made significant contributions to work considering the spatialities of young people's lives. Children's geographies is a vibrant subdisciplinary area and geographical work on children and young people is... Read More about Geographies of Youth/Young People.

More than Just Worksheets?: A Study of the Confidence of Newly Qualified Teachers of English in Teaching Personal, Social and Health Education in Secondary Schools (2007)
Journal Article
Evans, C., & Evans, B. (2007). More than Just Worksheets?: A Study of the Confidence of Newly Qualified Teachers of English in Teaching Personal, Social and Health Education in Secondary Schools. Pastoral Care in Education, 25(4), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0122.2007.00424.x

This paper addresses concerns regarding the preparedness of newly qualified teachers to deliver Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) in the United Kingdom in relation to the training received during Initial Teacher Education and through early... Read More about More than Just Worksheets?: A Study of the Confidence of Newly Qualified Teachers of English in Teaching Personal, Social and Health Education in Secondary Schools.

Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives (2007)
Journal Article
Colls, R., & Evans, B. (2007). Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives. Environment and Planning A, 40(3), 615-631. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3935

In this paper we interrogate the ways in which supermarkets ‘place’ responsibility for children’s ‘healthy’ eating with parents and/or children, as set within the contemporary British public health concern with the prevalence of childhood obesity. We... Read More about Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives.

'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation (2006)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2006). 'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation. Gender, Place and Culture, 13(5), 547-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690600858952

This article is concerned with the links between space, gender and adolescents' bodies. Drawing on data from both qualitative and quantitative research carried out with adolescents aged 13-16 in Liverpool, UK in 2001 the article examines girls' low p... Read More about 'I'd Feel Ashamed': Girls' Bodies and Sports Participation.

'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy (2006)
Journal Article
Evans, B. (2006). 'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy. Area, 38(3), 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00692.x

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 di... Read More about 'Gluttony or sloth': critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy.

'The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips': education and the discursive production of ill-health (2003)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Bvans, B., & Rich, E. (2003). 'The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips': education and the discursive production of ill-health. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 11(2), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681360300200168

On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled Tackling Obesity in England. Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provide... Read More about 'The Only Problem Is, Children Will Like Their Chips': education and the discursive production of ill-health.