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Evans, Bethan; Colls, Rachel; Horschelmann, Kathrin – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geographies, geographers have begun to challenge the notion of a singular, bounded body by highlighting…
Descriptors: Obesity, Self Concept, Human Geography, Public Health
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Evans, John; Evans, Bethan; Rich, Emma – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
On 16 January 2002, the United Kingdom House of Commons Select Committee published a report entitled "Tackling Obesity in England". Drawing on insights from the work of Bernstein, Bourdieu and Foucault, this article will suggest that the report provides an example "par excellence" of the way in which "the body" (our…
Descriptors: Obesity, Eating Disorders, Youth, Foreign Countries