In this paper, we explore the contribution of material and digital ethnography to providing a
deeper understanding of youth subcultures. We provide the context by reviewing some of …

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to
eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams …

Prison food is central to the prison experience and is a physically invasive manifestation of
carceral power. This article draws on 61 interviews with individuals with lived experience of …

E328 CMAJ| MARCH 19, 2018| VOLUME 190| ISSUE 11 lower socioeconomic status. The
first study to evaluate changes in beverage intake following the start of a tax on …

Fat people have historically been seen in Western culture as monstrous, excessive, and
dangerous, to themselves and others, because their physical and discursive identities …

Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through
everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with …

Over the past few decades, some scholars have labeled sugar “toxic” and portrayed it as the
primary cause of diet-related health conditions. In this paper, this sugar as toxic rhetoric …

Sugar is supplanting fat as public health enemy number one and is increasingly described
in terms of addiction, particularly in relation to obesity. Drawing on newspaper reporting of …

Research and policy on children's food consumption commonly highlights the unequal
impact of obesogenic environments on their health. Yet obesogenic theories risk …

The corporeal turn in the social sciences has stimulated considerable interdisciplinary
research into embodied stigmas, but these theories do not account for why certain traits …