[ecrea] CFP: Special Journal Issue on Fat Embodiment/Fat Studies

>Call For Papers
>³Fat Studies: A Critical Dialogue²
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>Special Journal Issue of Feminism & Psychology
>Guest Editor: Dr Samantha Murray
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>While cultural anxieties about fatness and stigmatisation of fat bodies in
>Western cultures have been central to dominant discourses about bodily
>Rpropriety¹ since the early twentieth century, the rise of the Rdisease¹
>category of obesity and the moral panic over an alleged global Robesity
>epidemic¹ has lent a medical authority and legitimacy to what can be
>described as Rfat-phobia¹. Against the backdrop of the ever-growing
>medicalisation and pathologisation of fatness, the field of Fat Studies has
>emerged in recent years to offer an interdisciplinary critical interrogation
>of the dominant medical models of health, to give voice to the lived
>experience of fat bodies, and to offer critical insights into, and
>investigations of, the ethico-political implications of the cultural
>meanings that have come to be attached to fat bodies.
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>This Special Issue will examine a range of questions concerning the
>construction of fat bodies in the dominant imaginary, including the
>problematic intersection of medical discourse and morality around Robesity¹,
>disciplinary technologies of Rhealth¹ to normalise fat bodies (such as diet
>regimes, exercise programs and bariatric surgeries), gendered aspects of
>Rfat¹, dominant discourses of Rfatness¹ in a range of cultural contexts, and
>critical strategies for political resistance to pervasive Rfat-phobic¹
>attitudes.
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>This Special Issue of Feminism & Psychology will showcase critical fat
>scholarship from around the globe by gathering together research from across
>a spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds (such as Cultural Studies, Fat
>Studies, Critical Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, Human/Cultural
>Geography, Public Health, etc) as well as activists and health care
>professionals. The Special Issue seeks to begin a critical conversation
>about the productive and enabling critical possibilities Fat Studies offers
>for rethinking dominant notions about health and pathology, gender and
>bodily aesthetics, political interventions, and beyond.
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>Papers are sought that engage with topics such as (but not limited to):
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>¬    Interventions to normalise fat bodies (such as diet regimes, exercise
>programs, weight loss pharmaceuticals and bariatric surgeries);
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>¬    The ethico-political implications of the medicalisation of Robesity¹;
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>¬    Constructions of the Rfat child¹ in childhood obesity media reportage;
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>¬    Representations of fat bodies in film, television, literature or art;
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>¬    Intersections of medical discourse and morality around Robesity¹;
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>¬    The somatechnics of fatness;
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>¬    Critical psychological responses to eating practices and body politics;
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>¬    Histories of fat activism and/or strategies for political intervention;
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>¬    Fat and queer histories/identities;
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>¬    Fat embodiment online, the Fat-O-Sphere;
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>¬    Feminist responses to fatness;
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>¬    Constructions of fatness in a range of cultural contexts;
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>¬    Systems of body quantification, measurement, and conceptualizations of
>(in)appropriate Rsize¹;
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>¬    Fat as it intersects with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender,
>disability and/or ageing.
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>Contributions will be expected to orient themselves to the core aims and
>mission of Feminism & Psychology, which is concerned with publishing work
>that fosters the development of feminist theory and practice in ­ and beyond
>­ psychology, and that provides insights into the gendered reality of
>everyday lives.
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>The Special Issue will consist of papers in of the following formats:
>¬    Papers between 5 ­ 6000 words in length;
>¬    Observation/Commentary-style papers ­ up  to 2500 words in length
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>Please note that all word counts include reference lists.
>Contributions will be selected following an anonymous peer review process.
>For further information regarding referencing styles and formatting
>guidelines, please go to
>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal200868
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>Please send full-length papers, as Word doc attachments, to Dr Samantha
>Murray via email at (Samantha.murray /at/ mq.edu.au) by Friday, 26 November 2010.
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>Dr Samantha Murray
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>Lecturer in Cultural Studies
>Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies
>Faculty of Arts
>Macquarie University
>Email:  (smurray78 /at/ gmail.com)
>         (samantha.murray /at/ mq.edu.au)
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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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