Sweets are "my best friend": belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls food and health relationships

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dc.contributor.authorKitching, Karl
dc.contributor.authorFernández, Eluska
dc.contributor.authorHorgan, Deirdre
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-06T10:59:40Z
dc.date.available2022-04-06T10:59:40Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-07
dc.date.updated2022-04-06T10:54:42Z
dc.description.abstractResearch and policy on children’s food consumption commonly highlights the unequal impact of obesogenic environments on their health. Yet obesogenic theories risk pathologising certain communities, when assuming fixed relationships between ‘unhealthy’ environments and ‘obese’ bodies, and neglecting children’s multi-layered relationships to food and health. Drawing on participatory photomapping with 11–12-year-old girls in an urban Irish working-class neighbourhood, this study conceptualises children’s food environments as dynamic, regulatory assemblages which involve multi-layered ‘pushes and pulls’ of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods, experiences and norms. Such foods, experiences and norms are related to in a variety of ways in the girls’ negotiation of belonging, bargain-hunting and body-shaming. The analysis challenges fixed, binary, adult-centred, classed and gendered ideas about healthy/unhealthy child bodies, foods and environments. We argue that viewing food environments as assemblages invites ‘obesogenic’ policy and research to inclusively engage children’s dynamic and multi-layered capacities to act, feel and desire around food.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationKitching, K., Fernández, E. and Horgan, D. (2021) 'Sweets are my best friend: belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls food and health relationships', Childrens Geographies, (14 pp). doi: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1937522en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14733285.2021.1937522en
dc.identifier.endpage14en
dc.identifier.issn1473-3285
dc.identifier.journaltitleChildrens Geographiesen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13038
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14733285.2021.1937522
dc.rights© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectFood environmenten
dc.subjectChildhooden
dc.subjectObesogenicen
dc.subjectParticipatory photomappingen
dc.subjectAssemblageen
dc.subjectLunchtime fooden
dc.subjectSocial-classen
dc.subjectObesityen
dc.subjectChildhooden
dc.subjectSchoolen
dc.subjectEnvironmentsen
dc.subjectOverweighten
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectAssemblagesen
dc.subjectFamiliesen
dc.titleSweets are "my best friend": belonging, bargains and body-shaming in working class girls food and health relationshipsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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