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  • RETHINKING OBESITY
    LEE F. MONAGHAN / EMMA RICH / ANDREA E. BOMBAK
    Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Rethinking Obesity invites readers to reconsider the medical and public health framing of population weight (gain) as a massive global problem, epidemic or crisis. Attentive to social values, scientific uncertainty and possible harms, the book furthers critique of the weight-centred health paradigm and world war on obesity. Build...

    $1,120.00

  • TRANSFORMING SPORT AND PHYSICAL CULTURES THROUGH FEMINIST KNOWLEDGES
    FULLAGAR, SIMONE, RICH, EMMA, PAVLIDIS, ADELE AND VAN INGEN, CATHY
    Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport come to matter. These perspectives are explored through a diverse array of topics, including, the embodiment of netball through...

    $1,200.00

  • RE-THINKING LEISURE IN A DIGITAL AGE
    EMMA RICH / BRAD MILLINGTON / MICHAEL SILK
    Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding ...

    $1,200.00

  • EDUCATION, DISORDERED EATING AND OBESITY DISCOURSE
    JOHN EVANS / EMMA RICH / BRIAN DAVIES / RACHEL ALLWOOD
    Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy. Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how 'body centred talk' about weight, fat, food and exercise is recycled in schools, ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE MEDICALIZATION OF CYBERSPACE
    ANDY MIAH / EMMA RICH
    The entire infrastructure and culture of medicine is being transformed by digital technology, the Internet and mobile devices. Cyberspace is now regularly used to provide medical advice and medication, with great numbers of sufferers immersing themselves within virtual communities. What are the implications of this medicalization of cyberspace for how people make sense of healt...

    $1,100.00