“But I’ve also tried”
This paper departs in the problem of rising obesity amongst Danish children. The aim is to show how meanings about childhood obesity are constructed in the meeting between the dietician, the obese youngster and parent. The empirical data is based on observations of meetings with the dietician, a you...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aof, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Français |
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Anthropology of food
2013
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This paper departs in the problem of rising obesity amongst Danish children. The aim is to show how meanings about childhood obesity are constructed in the meeting between the dietician, the obese youngster and parent. The empirical data is based on observations of meetings with the dietician, a youngster named Anna, and Anna’s mother. The study draws on various multi-disciplinary research concerning children and their food worlds in order to broaden the perspective. In particular, the analysis has been inspired by the concept of a joint discourse of ‘being and becoming’, and the idea that children’s lives are structured through a ‘generational order’. The meeting observations reveal that whilst biomedical and parental discourses of obesity are prevalent, a child’s discourse is lacking. This paper suggests that the key issue at stake is an improvement in the knowledge of obese children’s food worlds, which might lead to an enhanced dietetic approach. |
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