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Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Volume 33, 2012 - Issue 5: The impact of the new health imperatives on educational policy and schooling
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The medicalisation of food pedagogies in primary schools and popular culture: a case for awakening subjugated knowledges

Rosie Welch Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Samantha McMahon Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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Jan Wright Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Pages 713-728 | Published online: 15 Jun 2012

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Elizabeth Tingle, Jessica F. Saunders, Sarah Nutter & Shelly Russell-Mayhew. (2023) Taking Weight Out of the Equation: Unintended Harms of Weight-Focused Health Discourse in Schools. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 94:2, pages 49-58.
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Alessia Toldo. (2022) Eating at school: on children, biopower and care in Turin, Italy. Children's Geographies 20:4, pages 495-508.
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Cristiana Zara, Benjamin Coles, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton & Peter Kraftl. (2022) Geographies of food beyond food: transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil. Social & Cultural Geography 23:5, pages 715-738.
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Kristina Alstam & Torbjörn Forkby. (2020) Required alienation? The monitored self in a health promotion programme in secondary schools of three Swedish municipalities. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 28:3, pages 333-349.
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L. Berggren, C. Olsson, S. Talvia, A. Hörnell, M. Rönnlund & M. Waling. (2020) The lived experiences of school lunch: an empathy-based study with children in Sweden. Children's Geographies 18:3, pages 339-350.
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JaneMaree Maher, Sian Supski, Jan Wright, Deana Leahy, Jo Lindsay & Claire Tanner. (2020) Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family: the ‘[n]ot really’ outcome of school food messages. Children's Geographies 18:1, pages 81-95.
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Lexi Earl. (2020) ‘Who likes fish? And I don’t mean fish fingers!’ Taste education, culinary capital, and distinction in a rural middle-class primary school. Cambridge Journal of Education 50:1, pages 77-93.
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Nicole Taylor, Jan Wright & Gabrielle O’Flynn. (2019) Embodied encounters with more-than-human nature in health and physical education. Sport, Education and Society 24:9, pages 914-924.
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Ditte-Marie From. (2019) Between urgent and lifelong matters: overweight children’s voices on health promotion pedagogies. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 40:6, pages 816-831.
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Lexi Earl. (2018) Children’s food maps: using social mapping to understand school foodscapes. Ethnography and Education 13:4, pages 508-528.
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Fernando J. Bosco, Pascale Joassart-Marcelli & Blaire O'Neal. (2017) Food Journeys: Place, Mobility, and the Everyday Food Practices of Young People. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107:6, pages 1479-1498.
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Shailesh Shukla, Janna Barkman & Kirit Patel. (2017) Weaving indigenous agricultural knowledge with formal education to enhance community food security: school competition as a pedagogical space in rural Anchetty, India. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 25:1, pages 87-103.
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Jan Wright & Christine Halse. (2014) The healthy child citizen: biopedagogies and web-based health promotion. British Journal of Sociology of Education 35:6, pages 837-855.
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Laura De Pian. (2012) ‘Emboldened bodies’: social class, school health policy and obesity discourse. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 33:5, pages 655-672.
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Valerie Harwood. (2012) Neither good nor useful: looking ad vivum in children's assessments of fat and healthy bodies. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 33:5, pages 693-711.
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Sarah Gray. (2021) Biological requirements or social expectations? Entanglements of sex and gender in nutrition policies in Ontario secondary schools. Health Education Journal 80:7, pages 773-784.
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Noortje van Amsterdam & Annelies Knoppers. (2017) Healthy habits are no fun: How Dutch youth negotiate discourses about food, fit, fat, and fun. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 22:2, pages 128-146.
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Irene Torres. (2017) Teachers’ use of dietary recalls for exploratory dialogue in the classroom. Health Education Journal 76:7, pages 869-879.
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