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‘Must I seize every opportunity?’ Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness
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Throsby, Karen and Evans, Bethan (2013) ‘Must I seize every opportunity?’ Complicity, confrontation and the problem of researching (anti-) fatness. Critical Public Health, Volume 23 (Number 3). pp. 331-344. doi:10.1080/09581596.2013.802290
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2013.802290
Abstract
This paper draws on the experiences of two researchers working to develop critical accounts of fatness with very different research participants – town planners and English Channel swimmers. Drawing across our encounters with these different participants, we explore the ‘doing’ of critical research through attending to the embodied encounters which take place in the ‘field’. In so doing, we reflect on moments where we have both, as part of the research encounter, not only found ourselves simply in fat-phobic contexts, but also effectively complicit in those contexts in our roles as interlocutors. In this paper, we explore the tensions inherent in those encounters for us (in all our multiple social, professional and embodied subjectivities), and ask what attending to these embodied confrontations (or the avoidance of confrontation) might mean for the critical research process – both in terms of the impact on practice and outputs of research for individual researchers and the participants with whom they are working. In doing so, we focus on what attention to the research encounter adds to debates about ‘impact’ in social science, about the doing of scholar-activism and about the role of the researcher’s body in the research encounter.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Public Health | ||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
| ISSN: | 1469-3682 | ||||
| Official Date: | 28 May 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 23 | ||||
| Number: | Number 3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 331-344 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09581596.2013.802290 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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