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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Healthism"”.
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The Phenomenology of Fat Men's Health
… meanings of size, sexuality, masculinity, and healthism. Healthism here refers to the felt cultural and social responsibility of surveilling and monitoring health through individual action. In conducting 19 phenomenological interviews with self-identified fat men, I investigate how social …
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Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport
… and working toward dismantling the ideology of healthism as a key technology of neoliberalism, and specifically in how it manifests in and through behavioural forms of health promotion. I enter my interrogation predominantly through sport given that it: is one of neoliberalism’s most spectacular …
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Participation: A Legacy In Motion (1971-1999)
… and citizenship. ParticipACTION was a project of healthism fostered in an environment of anxiety. The threat of the Cold War, the constructed menace of the Obesity Crisis, and the fear of Quebec Separatism were all used to bolster the message at this semi-public agency over its thirty years of …
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… interest in the body and its meanings. As healthism and neoliberal ideals of individual responsibility have taken root, particularly through 'body positivity' and Health at Every Size (BP/HAES), a singular, "problematic model of fat subjectivity" (Murray, 2005, p. 155) has emerged. This …
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Redefining health on Instagram: Women's experiences with body positivity and body neutrality
… the data. My main findings include identifying healthism and diet culture as influencing participants’ relationships with their bodies, ultimately leading participants to seek counterdiscourses such as body positivity. Participants identified three critiques of body positivity, which I argue …
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Run for Health: Health(icization), Supplements, and Doping in Non-Elite Road Running
… of health, the ironies and inconsistencies of healthism, and the folk measures of health employed within the running community. Through qualitative interviews with amateur runners in New York City about their perceptions of running, health, doping, and supplements, I explore the value non-elite …