Outputs (3)

A pilot study to examine school-based aspects of the BMI surveillance programme in NE England. (2007)
Report
Shucksmith, J., Colls, R., McNaughton, R., Ells, L., & Wilkinson, J. (2007). A pilot study to examine school-based aspects of the BMI surveillance programme in NE England. NEPHO

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.