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'Getting in and going': Access to onboard toilets for fat and disabled people on commercial aircraft (2023)
Journal Article
Evans, B., Colls, R., & Bias, S. (2024). 'Getting in and going': Access to onboard toilets for fat and disabled people on commercial aircraft. Geoforum, 148, Article 103908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103908

In this paper we explore the accessibility of toilets onboard commercial aircraft for passengers who identify as fat or fat and disabled. Drawing on qualitative survey and interview data, we discuss people's experiences of inaccessible onboard toilet... Read More about 'Getting in and going': Access to onboard toilets for fat and disabled people on commercial aircraft.

The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat (2021)
Journal Article
Colls, R., Evans, B., & Bias, S. (2021). The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1866485

This paper offers an exploration of the embodied experiences of flying whilst fat, based on research with a significantly larger group of people than any previous research on this topic (795 surveys and 28 interviews with fat people largely, though n... Read More about The Dys-appearing Fat Body: Bodily Intensities and Fatphobic Sociomaterialities when Flying Whilst Fat.

Generative Spaces: Intimacy, Activism and Teaching Feminist Geographies (2017)
Journal Article
Burke, S., Carr, A., Casson, H., Coddington, K., Colls, R., Jollans, A., …Urquhart, H. (2017). Generative Spaces: Intimacy, Activism and Teaching Feminist Geographies. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(5), 661-673. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2017.1335293

In this article, we examine responses to the March on Washington from the vantage point of Durham University, Durham, UK. As members of a course titled ‘Feminist Geographies of Intimacy’, we viewed the March on Washington as a prudent and timely even... Read More about Generative Spaces: Intimacy, Activism and Teaching Feminist Geographies.

Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’ (2013)
Journal Article
Colls, R., & Evans, B. (2014). Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’. Progress in Human Geography, 38(6), 733-753. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513500373

A key focus for geographical and policy work on obesity has involved interrogating the concept of an ‘obesogenic environment’ – an environment with particular physical, social and economic characteristics considered to contribute towards the propensi... Read More about Making space for fat bodies?: A critical account of ‘the obesogenic environment’.

Moving beyond walkability: On the potential of health geography (2012)
Journal Article
Andrews, G. J., Hall, E., Evans, B., & Colls, R. (2012). Moving beyond walkability: On the potential of health geography. Social Science & Medicine, 75(11), 1925-1932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.08.013

In the context of the substantial volume of research focused in recent years on the walkability of the built environment, this report presents some initial thoughts on what the sub-discipline of health geography might be able to contribute, beyond wh... Read More about Moving beyond walkability: On the potential of health geography.

'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy (2011)
Journal Article
Evans, B., Colls, R., & Horschelmann, K. (2011). 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 16(3), 323-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565964

Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geogr... Read More about 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy.

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.

Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat' (2007)
Journal Article
Colls, R. (2007). Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'. Geoforum, 38(2), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.004

In this article I describe the processes through which fat bodies are materialised. I contextualise the article within the recent call to rematerialise social and cultural geography and the wider medical, social and political discrimination that obes... Read More about Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'.

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.

'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.