Outputs (3)

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.

Critical Geographies of Fat/Bigness/Corpulence. Introduction: Questioning Obesity Politics (2009)
Journal Article
Colls, R., & Evans, B. (2009). Critical Geographies of Fat/Bigness/Corpulence. Introduction: Questioning Obesity Politics. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41(5), 1011-1020. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00705.x

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.