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Week 13 Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Week 13 Mind Map
LeBesco Reading
There is a larger cultural landscape in America where the healthy body has come to signify the morally worthy citizen.
Public health interventions that work on the population level aim to divide and conquer by preventing, containing, and eliminating abnormal
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How we think about fatness (fat people make bad consumption and moral choices) is concomitant with the shift to a neoliberal form of governmentality described by Foucault
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Self practices, while supposed to seem voluntary, are "'proposed, suggested, and imposed'" by culture, society, and social groups
The state often does not need to actively govern disobedient bodies because we have created a surveillance society where citizens self-govern and voluntarily govern others. Foucault calls this the hegemonic character of healthism
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And yet we have seen increasing legislation as of late where the state tries to pass legislation granting them greater authority to govern the bodies of others
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We are expected to both consume less and be skinny but also consume a ton with our money. Super contradictory and is a trap for almost everyone
Guthman Reading
The scientific tools and techniques used to understand the 'obesity epidemic' in America are intricately linked with 'artifactual contructivism'
Studies and results obesity are directly influenced by subjective understandings of fatness, illness, and obesity that contribute to improper testing/study methods
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These tools and techniques paint the picture of obesity in a way that can over-dramatize some parts, under-specify others, and push out the possibility of different solutions.
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