The Burden of Brown Bodies: Teachings About Pasifika Within Public Health Obesity Research in Aotearoa/New Zealand

被引:3
作者
McCormack, Jaleh V. [1 ]
Burrows, Lisette [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Sch Phys Educ Sport & Exercise Sci, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
来源
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES | 2015年 / 15卷 / 05期
关键词
biopedagogy; biopower; biopolitics; obesity; discourse; health; Pasifika;
D O I
10.1177/1532708615611718
中图分类号
G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要
Recent theorizations of biopedagogies, drawing on Foucault's thinking about biopower and biopolitics, coupled with contemporary understandings of pedagogy as a cultural practice, provide a useful analytic for interrogating the workings of obesity discourses. In this article, we aim to extend thinking about biopedagogies through a reading of public health research texts that produce evidence about obesity and Brown bodies. We consider the role public health researchers may play as pedagogues in the art and practices of life. We chart how some public health research utilizes normalizing practices and produces discourses of ignorance that constitute bodies as objects to be worked on and taught. Finally, we flag up our concern that biopedagogical efforts to solve public health issues may occlude potential detrimental effects for individuals and their health.
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页码:371 / 378
页数:8
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