Dr Kimberly Jamie's Outputs (3)

Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating (2024)
Journal Article
Hockin‐Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (online). Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating. Sociology of Health & Illness, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13821

Under the conditions of neo‐liberal individual responsibilisation, self‐tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition‐based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two appr... Read More about Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating.

“Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters (2024)
Journal Article
Kost, C., Jamie, K., & Mohr, E. (2024). “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, Article 1303919. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1303919

Introduction: This article focuses on medical fatphobia as a specific phenomenon structuring interactions between patients and healthcare practitioners. Throughout the article, we use ‘fat’ and ‘fatphobia’ as the preferred terms in the body positivit... Read More about “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters.

Gig Economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Jamie, K., & Musilek, K. (in press). Gig Economy. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell

The so-called gig economy, whereby self-employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas... Read More about Gig Economy.