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'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy

Evans, B.; Colls, R.; Horschelmann, K.

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B. Evans

K. Horschelmann



Abstract

Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geographies, geographers have begun to challenge the notion of a singular, bounded body by highlighting the importance of, for example, relations of care and intergenerationality to everyday embodied experiences; remembered past/anticipated future bodies to self-perception and body image; affect/emotion to the production of embodied collectives; and connections to distant and proximate others to understandings of embodied rights and responsibility. In this paper we will review these areas of work in order to explore the ways in which this geographical work on embodied connections might contribute to recent debates concerning public health pedagogy and the production of embodied and emotional collectives in education. This will involve an analysis of the recent anti-obesity Change4Life campaign in the UK; used in this context as a way to explore how the campaign attempts to produce healthy bodies through a form of pedagogy which is centred upon notions of embodied connectivities and collectives.

Citation

Evans, B., Colls, R., & Horschelmann, K. (2011). 'Change4Life for your kids': embodied collectives and public health pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 16(3), 323-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565964

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date May 16, 2011
Deposit Date Jun 22, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Sport, Education and Society
Print ISSN 1357-3322
Electronic ISSN 1470-1243
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 16
Issue 3
Pages 323-341
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2011.565964
Keywords Embodiment, Relationality, Intergenerational, Obesity, Geography, Change4Life.

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