All Outputs (24)

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.

Outsize/Outside: Bodily bignesses and the emotional experiences of British women shopping for clothes (2006)
Journal Article
Colls, R. (2006). Outsize/Outside: Bodily bignesses and the emotional experiences of British women shopping for clothes. Gender, Place and Culture, 13(5), 529-545. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690600858945

Whilst there has been substantial research in geography concerned with ‘the body’, little consideration has been given to the ‘sized’ body. This article aims to counter this by considering the concept of ‘bodily bignesses’ as a way of understanding t... Read More about Outsize/Outside: Bodily bignesses and the emotional experiences of British women shopping for clothes.

Transformations: changing careers, meanings and experiences of women’s political activism. A report commissioned from The University of Liverpool by UNISON North West. (2005)
Report
Colls, R., Featherstone, D., O’Brien, M., & Sadler, D. (2005). Transformations: changing careers, meanings and experiences of women’s political activism. A report commissioned from The University of Liverpool by UNISON North West. [No known commissioning body]

'Looking alright, feeling alright': emotions, sizing and the geographies of women's experiences of clothing consumption (2004)
Journal Article
Colls, R. (2004). 'Looking alright, feeling alright': emotions, sizing and the geographies of women's experiences of clothing consumption. Social and Cultural Geography, 5(4), 583-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/1464936042000317712

Recent work within geographies of consumption has focused on the practices of consumption as a means to find out 'what people do when they go shopping'. This paper argues that few of these accounts of consumption have considered the significance of e... Read More about 'Looking alright, feeling alright': emotions, sizing and the geographies of women's experiences of clothing consumption.