A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats. This book critically examines these unquestioned...
A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions...
Over the past 25 years, activists and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault's method of genealogy as a practice of critique to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses.
Over the past 25 years, activists and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system undermines population health and is enviro...
