This article introduces some of the key concepts that we have used in our research to help illuminate the multiple and different ways in which apparently ubiquitous health policies relating to obesity, exercise, diet and health are mediated and shaped both globally and nationally, as well as within regional, school and other contexts. The analyses…

Over recent years there has been growing appreciation of the body's corporeal significance in how children learn in educational settings. "The body" has been conceptualised from a variety of perspectives that we characterise as: "the body without flesh", "the body with fleshy feelings" and "the body made flesh". We reflect on these perspectives…