Publication Cover
Fat Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
Volume 12, 2023 - Issue 1: Fat Food Justice and Fat Femininities
385
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Fat Food Justice

Fat in food & environment justice: lessons from fat studies scholarship

&

References

  • Agyeman, J., D. Schlosberg, L. Craven, C. Matthews. 2016. “Trends and Directions in Environmental Justice: From Inequity to Everyday Life, Community, and Just Sustainabilities.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41 (1): 321–40. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-090052.
  • Alkon, A. H., and C. G. McCullen. 2010. “Whiteness and Farmers Markets: Performances, Perpetuations … Contestations?” Antipode 43 (4): 937–59. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00818.x
  • Alkon, A. H., and J. Agyeman. 2011. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Alkon, A. H., and J. Guthman. 2017. The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action.  Oakland: University of California Press.
  • Alkon, A. H., and K. M. Norgaard. 2009. “Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism.” Sociological Inquiry 79 (3): 289–305. doi:10.1111/j.1475-682X.2009.00291.x
  • Allen, P. 2004. Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Allen, P., and A. B. Wilson. 2008. “Agrifood Inequalities: Globalization and Localization.” Development 51 (4): 534–40. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.65.
  • Block, D. R., N. Chávez, E. Allen, and D. Ramirez. 2012. “Food Sovereignty, Urban Food Access, and Food Activism: Contemplating the Connections through Examples from Chicago.” Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2): 203–15. doi:10.1007/s10460-011-9336-8.
  • Bradley, K., and H. Herrera. 2016. “Decolonizing Food Justice: Naming, Resisting, and Researching Colonizing Forces in the Movement.” Antipode 48 (1): 97–114. doi:10.1111/anti.12165
  • Bradley, K., and R. E. Galt. 2014. “Practicing Food Justice at Dig Deep Farms & Produce, East Bay Area, California: Self-determination as a Guiding Value and Intersections with Foodie Logics.” Local Environment 19 (2): 172–86. doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.790350
  • Braz, Rose, and Craig Gilmore. 2006. “Joining Forces: Prisons and Environmental Justice in Recent California Organizing.” Radical History Review 96 (96): 95–111. doi:10.1215/01636545-2006-006
  • Broad, G. M. 2016. More than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change. Oakland: University of California Press (California studies in food and culture, 60).
  • Brown, P. 1992. “Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination: Lay and Professional Ways of Knowing.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 33 (3): 267–81. doi:10.2307/2137356
  • Brown, P., S. McCormick, B. Mayer, S. Zavestoski, R. Morello-Frosch, R G. Altman, L. Senier. 2006. ““A Lab of Our Own”: Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer and Challenges to the Dominant Epidemiological Paradigm.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 31 (5): 499–536. doi:10.1177/0162243906289610.
  • Bullard, R. 1983. “Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community.” Sociological Inquiry 53 (2–3): 273–88. doi:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1983.tb00037.x
  • Chen, D., E. C. Jaenicke, and R. J. Volpe. 2016. “Food Environments and Obesity: Household Diet Expenditure versus Food Deserts.” American Journal of Public Health 106 (5): 881–88. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303048
  • Cole, L. W., and S. R. Foster. 2001. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. NYU Press.
  • Cooper, C. 2010. “Fat Studies: Mapping the Field.” Sociology Compass 4 (12): 1020–34. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00336.x
  • Cronon, W. 1996. “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” Environmental History 1 (1): 7–28. doi:10.2307/3985059
  • Cummins, S., E. Flint, and S. A. Matthews. 2014. “New Neighborhood Grocery Store Increased Awareness Of Food Access But Did Not Alter Dietary Habits Or Obesity.” Health Affairs 33 (2): 283–91. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0512.
  • Cummins, S., and J. Fagg. 2012. “Does Greener Mean Thinner? Associations between Neighbourhood Greenspace and Weight Status among Adults in England.” International Journal of Obesity 36 (8): 1108–13. doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.195.
  • Cutts, B. B., K J. Darby, C G. Boone, and A. Brewis. 2009. “City Structure, Obesity, and Environmental Justice: An Integrated Analysis of Physical and Social Barriers to Walkable Streets and Park Access.” Social Science & Medicine 69 (9): 1314–22. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.020.
  • Downey, L. 2005. “Assessing Environmental Inequality: How the Conclusions We Draw Vary according to the Definitions We Employ.” Sociological Spectrum 25 (3): 349–69. doi:10.1080/027321790518870.
  • Foster, S. 1998. “Justice from the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance, and the Transformative Politics of the Environmental Justice Movement.” California Law Review 86 (4): 775–842. doi:10.2307/3481140
  • Gard, M. 2010. The End of the Obesity Epidemic. Routledge.
  • Gilio-Whitaker, D. 2019. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock. Beacon Press.
  • Greenberg, M. R., and J. Renne. 2005. “Where Does Walkability Matter the Most? an Environmental Justice Interpretation of New Jersey Data.” Journal of Urban Health 82 (1): 90–100. doi:10.1093/jurban/jti011
  • Guthman, J. 2004. “Back to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards.Environment and Planning A, 36(3):511–528.
  • Guthman, J. 2008. “Bringing Good Food to Others: Investigating the Subjects of Alternative Food Practice.” Cultural Geographies 15 (4): 431–47. doi:10.1177/1474474008094315.
  • Guthman, J. 2009. “Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies,” in The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, 187–96. New York: NYU Press
  • Guthman, J. 2011a. “Bodies and Accumulation: Revisiting Labour in the “Production of Nature.”” New Political Economy 16 (2): 233–38. doi:10.1080/13563467.2011.542801
  • Guthman, J. 2011b. “If They Only Knew: The Unbearable Whiteness of Alternative Food, Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability, edited by AH Alkon and J. Agyeman, 263–81. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Guthman, J. 2011c. Weighing In: Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Guthman, J. 2015. “Binging and Purging: Agrofood Capitalism and the Body as Socioecological Fix.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 47 (12): 2522–36. doi:10.1068/a140005p.
  • Guthman, J., and M. DuPuis. 2006. “Embodying Neoliberalism: Economy, Culture, and the Politics of Fat.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24 (3): 427–48. doi:10.1068/d3904.
  • Harrison, C. 2019. Anti-diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-being, and Happiness through Intuitive Eating. New York City: Little, Brown Spark.
  • Harrison, J. L. 2011. Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. Cambridge: Mit Press.
  • Hayes-Conroy, A., and J. Hayes-Conroy. 2015. “Political Ecology of the Body: A Visceral Approach” in The International Handbook of Political Ecology, edited by Raymond L. Bryant. Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Hayes-Conroy, A., and J. Hayes-Conroy. 2008. “Taking Back Taste: Feminism, Food and Visceral Politics.” Gender, Place & Culture 15 (5): 461–73. doi:10.1080/09663690802300803.
  • Hayes-Conroy, J. 2014. Savoring Alternative Food: School Gardens, Healthy Eating and Visceral Difference. Routledge.
  • Horst, M., N. McClintock, and L. Hoey. 2017. “The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature.” Journal of the American Planning Association 83 (3): 277–95. doi:10.1080/01944363.2017.1322914.
  • Jennings, V., C. Johnson Gaither, and R. S. Gragg. 2012. “Promoting Environmental Justice Through Urban Green Space Access: A Synopsis.” Environmental Justice 5 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1089/env.2011.0007.
  • Kirkland, A. 2011. “The Environmental Account of Obesity: A Case for Feminist Skepticism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36 (2): 463–85. doi:10.1086/655916
  • LeBesco, K. 2009. “Quest for a Cause.” In The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, 65–74. New York: NYU Press.
  • LeBesco, K. 2010. “6. Fat Panic and the New Morality.” In Against Health, 72–82. New York: NYU Press.
  • Leonard, L. G. I. 1996. “Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Environmental Justice in the Mescalero Apache’s Decision to Store Nuclear Waste Comment.” Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 24 (3): 651–94.
  • Mackert, N. 2015. “Writing the History of Fat Agency.” Body Politics 3 (5): 13.
  • Mackert, N., and J. Martschukat. 2015. “Introduction: Fat Agency.” Body Politics 3 (5): 5–11.
  • Matties, Z. 2016. “Unsettling Settler Food Movements: Food Sovereignty and Decolonization in Canada.” Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures 7 (2). doi:10.7202/1038478ar.
  • McCarthy, M. 2016. “US Food Subsidies Fuel Obesity, Study Finds.” BMJ 354:i3717. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i3717
  • Metzl, J., and A. Kirkland. 2010. Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: NYU press.
  • Mollow, A. 2015. “Disability Studies Gets Fat.” Hypatia 30 (1): 199–216. doi:10.1111/hypa.12126
  • Mollow, A. 2017. “Unvictimizable: Toward a Fat Black Disability Studies.” African American Review 50 (2): 105–21. doi:10.1353/afa.2017.0016
  • Moore, D. S., J. Kosek, and A. Pandian. 2003. Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Morland, K. B., and K. R. Evenson. 2009. “Obesity Prevalence and the Local Food Environment.” Health & Place 15 (2): 491–95. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.09.004
  • Murray, S. 2005. “Doing Politics or Selling Out? Living the Fat Body.” Women’s Studies 34 (3–4): 265–77. doi:10.1080/00497870590964165
  • Nixon, R. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Oleschuk, M. 2020. ““In Today’s Market, Your Food Chooses You”: News Media Constructions of Responsibility for Health through Home Cooking.” Social Problems 67 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1093/socpro/spz006.
  • Otero, G. 2018. The Neoliberal Diet: Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People. University of Texas Press.
  • Otero, G., E C. Gürcan, G. Pechlaner, and G. Liberman. 2018. “Food Security, Obesity, and Inequality: Measuring the Risk of Exposure to the Neoliberal Diet.” Journal of Agrarian Change 18 (3): 536–54. doi:10.1111/joac.12252.
  • Payne, D. G., and R. S. Newman. 2005. “United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice.” In The Palgrave Environmental Reader, edited by D. G. Payne and R. S. Newman, 259–64. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-73299-9_30.
  • Pellow, D. N. 2012. “Chapter Six: Activist-Scholar Alliances for Social Change: The Transformative Power of University-Community Collaborations.” In Transforming the Ivory Tower edited by Brett Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Pellow, D. N. 2016. “Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 13 (2): 221–36. doi:10.1017/S1742058X1600014X
  • Pellow, D. N. 2017. What Is Critical Environmental Justice?  Cambridge: Polity.
  • Pellow, D. N. 2021. Struggles for Environmental Justice in US Prisons and Jails. Antipode 53 (1): 56-73.
  • Pulido, L. 2015. “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity 1: White Supremacy Vs White Privilege in Environmental Racism Research.” Progress in Human Geography 39 (6): 809–17. doi:10.1177/0309132514563008
  • Raja, S., C. Ma, and P. Yadav. 2008. “Beyond Food Deserts: Measuring and Mapping Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Food Environments.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 27 (4): 469–82. doi:10.1177/0739456X08317461.
  • Ramírez, M. M. 2015. “The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces.” Antipode 47 (3): 748–69. doi:10.1111/anti.12131
  • Reese, A. M. 2018. ““We Will Not Perish; We’re Going to Keep Flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self-Reliance.” Antipode 50 (2): 407–24. doi:10.1111/anti.12359.
  • Reese, A. M. 2019. Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-reliance, and Food Access. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.
  • Rossett, P. 2003. “Food Sovereignty: Global Rallying Cry of Farmer Movements.” Backgrounder 9 (4).
  • Saguy, A. C. 2012. What’s Wrong with Fat? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Sbicca, J. 2012. “Growing Food Justice by Planting an Anti-oppression Foundation: Opportunities and Obstacles for a Budding Social Movement.” Agriculture and Human Values 29 (4): 455–66. doi:10.1007/s10460-012-9363-0
  • Schlosberg, D. 2009. Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Schlosberg, D., and D. Carruthers. 2010. “Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities.” Global Environmental Politics 10 (4): 12–35. doi:10.1162/GLEP_a_00029
  • Slocum, R. 2007. “Whiteness, Space and Alternative Food Practice.” Geoforum 38 (3): 520–33. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.10.006
  • Slocum, R., J. Shannon, K V. Cadieux, M. Beckman. 2011. ““Properly, with Love, from scratch”Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” Radical History Review 2011 (110): 178–91. doi:10.1215/01636545-2010-033.
  • Solovay, S., and E. Rothblum. 2009. “Introduction.” In The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, 1-7. New York: New York University Press.
  • Stoll, L. C. 2019. “Fat Is a Social Justice Issue, Too.” Humanity & Society 43 (4): 421–41. doi:10.1177/0160597619832051.
  • Stoll, L. C., and J. Egner. 2021. “We Must Do Better: Ableism and Fatphobia in Sociology.” Sociology Compass 15 (4). doi:10.1111/soc4.12869.
  • Strings, S. 2019. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York: NYU Press.
  • Taylor, D. E. 2011. “Introduction: The Evolution of Environmental Justice Activism, Research, and Scholarship.Environmental Practice, 13 (4): 280–301.
  • Taylor, D. E. 2016. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Taylor, D. E. 2018. “Black Farmers in the USA and Michigan: Longevity, Empowerment, and Food Sovereignty.” Journal of African American Studies 22 (1): 49–76. doi:10.1007/s12111-018-9394-8.
  • Thuy Nguyen, P. L. 2014. “Influencing Agricultural Policy.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 46 (3): e43. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2013.10.015.
  • Wallinga, D. 2010. “Agricultural Policy And Childhood Obesity: A Food Systems And Public Health Commentary.” Health Affairs (Project Hope) 29 (3): 405–10. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0102.
  • Wann, M. 2009. “Foreword.” In The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, xi-xxv. New York: NYU Press.
  • White, M. M. 2017. ““A Pig and a Garden”: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms Cooperative.” Food and Foodways 25 (1): 20–39. doi:10.1080/07409710.2017.1270647.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.