Discourse about health that focuses predominantly on body weight is referred to as the
weight-centered health paradigm (WCHP). In recent years, there has been a significant …

In recent years much health research across the social sciences and humanities has
undergone a noticeable, albeit by no means cohesive or comprehensive,'turn'towards a …

Bodies have been claimed to be an 'absent presence'and touch 'risky business' in physical
education (PE). We have now witnessed how these claims are intensified in pandemic times …

In this article, I examine the 'turn to'post-qualitative inquiry (PQI), new materialism and post-
humanist theories to consider the challenges of, and implications for, doing research in …

In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of
value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for …

This book explores the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which
educators mobilise school-based health education. Through an interrogation of the ideas …

This report, the second of three, discusses the nature of a recent turn in health geography
towards a posthuman theoretical orientation. This is an ontological turn that challenges …

As a school subject, health education functions as a contemporary apparatus of
governmentality by attempting to shape the health [y] conduct of young people. Currently …

The recent construction of a so-called “obesity epidemic” has been fueled by
epidemiologically-based studies recuperated by the media and suggestions of the rapid …

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its
taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with …