There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims about an obesity time-bomb are continually recycled in policy reports, reviews and white papers, each of which begin with the assumption that fatness is fundamentally unhealthy and damaging to national economies. With contributions from the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia, this book offers alternative critical perspectives on this alleged public health crisis which were, in part, developed through an Economic and Social Research Council seminar series on...
There is considerable rhetoric and concern about weight and obesity across an increasing range of national contexts. Alarmist claims about an obesi...
Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children s Geographies, there s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people...
Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established acad...
