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ABSTRACT
Fat studies has produced tremendous theoretical contributions that upend hegemonic discourses posing fatness as a social problem. In spite of some key contributions, food and environmental justice literatures both have been slow to fully integrate fat studies perspectives into the study of food and environments. This paper seeks a more systematic integration of fat insights within both literatures, offering several points of departure based on existing thematic convergences. This discussion serves to establish a research agenda for scholars of critical food studies and environmental justice for transforming the existing sluggishness into a systematic treatment of the role of anti-fat discourses and structures in food and environmental systems.
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1 Others have made the call for greater theoretical and empirical attention to fatphobia within sociology as a whole (Stoll & Egner Citation2021)).
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Becca Chalit Hernandez
Becca Chalit Hernandezis a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on food systems, carceral systems, and social movements, with particular interest in processes of legitimation, symbolic power, and discourse as resistance. Through these foci, she has studied migrant farmworker labor organizing, prison horticulture and agriculture programs, and hunger strikes in prisons and migrant detention.
Austin Luzbetak
Austin Luzbetakis a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. She conducts research in environmental justice and critical criminology, teaching courses in both. Her most recent research project involves the intersection of these two fields: examining prisons as extractive sites of environmental injustice.