73 London Journal

Crabbe, George; Faulkner, Thomas C.; Blair, Rhonda L.

doi:10.1093/oseo/instance.00052503

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“…The declaration that diets do not work is repeated often in HAES and body positive circles. Megan Crabbe (2017) wrote a memoir about her struggle with dieting and Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby (2009, 8) offer similar anecdotal evidence when they suggest that diets may only work in the short term; Harding lost 20% of her body weight twice but regained it all back over the course of three years. And McMichael (2013, 98) argues that accepting diets do not work is part of a recovery process for many fat people.…”

Section: "Healthy" Eatingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Health(ism) at every size: The duties of the “good fatty”

Gibson

2021

Fat Studies

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Discussing health in many "body positive" spaces will provoke a variety of familiar responses, for example, "but it is possible to be both fat and healthy," "thin people can be just as unhealthy as fat people," and "what about health at every size?" While there are many different ways to interpret the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement , this article seeks to examine the links between Lindo Bacon's Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight and the popularized body positivity movement as it is today. While Bacon and other health professionals subscribed to HAES undoubtedly have good intentions, those intentions do not absolve the negative impact that the popularization of HAES-related body positivity has had on those of us who are both fat and, by the definition of HAES "unhealthy." The rise of body positivity into mainstream consciousness has popularized an "acceptable" way to be fat and perpetuates the stereotype of the "good fatty." Using autobiographical writing of fat women who have been associated with fat activism and body positivity, I draw lines between Bacon's influential text and some of the healthism that exists in the body positivity movement. Inspired by my discomfort with the celebration of HAES in fat body positive spaces, I ask how does HAES promote healthism in the contemporary body positivity movement?

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Section: "Healthy" Eatingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Health(ism) at every size: The duties of the “good fatty”

Gibson

2021

Fat Studies

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“…Beverley Hughes, then Minister for Children, Young People and Families, introduced the second ‘Positive Futures’ strategy by suggesting: ‘Positive Futures’ is engaging young people in their own communities and effectively changing [the] behaviour of some of the most hard to reach young people’ (Crime Concern, 2006: 5). The national ‘Positive Futures’ evaluations and strategy documents contain many inspiring ‘case studies’, which document how ‘Positive Futures’ has transformed the lives of some participants (Catch22 and Crabbe, 2009; Crabbe et al, 2006). Similar case studies were highlighted during interviews.…”

Section: Including Young Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Outcome monitoring data collected by projects reflect this. Annual monitoring data shared by project managers in 2006 showed no more than 3 per cent of participants at the studied sites were known to have been supported back into education or to be doing better in school, while no more than 6 per cent were reported as looking for work or in a job (discussed in more detail in Kelly 2011; see also Catch22 and Crabbe 2009 for discussion of the national programme). 5 There are, of course, broader issues associated with the assumption that encouraging engagement with education or training will result in sustainable employment in the precarious labour market contexts already described (Furlong and Cartmel, 2007).…”

Section: Including Young Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Representing and Preventing Youth Crime and Disorder: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Targeted Youth Programmes in England

Kelly¹

2012

Youth Justice

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Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in England, this article argues that targeted youth projects often benefit participants, but over-stating their ability to prevent crime and ‘anti-social behaviour’ can be problematic. Voluntary services with limited resources ultimately focus on receptive young people, but pressure to justify funding encourages practitioners, programme managers and policy-makers to highlight the ‘riskiness’ of participants and publicize the most striking successes. Such practices can serve to consolidate negative representations of the risk posed by young people (or ‘define deviance up’) and give credence to the notions of choice and intractability that underpin punitive policies. Meanwhile, alternative justifications for youth provision are silenced.

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73 London Journal

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Health(ism) at every size: The duties of the “good fatty”

Health(ism) at every size: The duties of the “good fatty”

Representing and Preventing Youth Crime and Disorder: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Targeted Youth Programmes in England

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