Mothers are expected to monitor their children’s dietary intakes and physical activities blamed for over feeding children if they obese. Women also urged manage own weight in preparation conception during pregnancy order reduce complications associated with maternal obesity at childbirth. Through a theoretical lens of blame, we argue that Australian media representations scientific studies the fetal overnutrition hypothesis extend behavioural blame interiority women’s bodies. Women’s...

Aim: This paper traces the genealogy of Barker hypothesis and its intersections with popular representations scientific discourses about pregnancy maternal obesity.Method: Drawing on Foucault's genealogical method, this study examines historical 'descent' developmental origins adult disease initial grounding in structural factors gender inequality low socioeconomic status.Results: In more recent reproductive medicine literature, Barker's has been used to understand causes consequences foetal...

This paper investigates the ways in which ‘the child’ is positioned obesity debates and, doing so, examines discursive relations between childhood obesity, mothering and child neglect. Using legal cases of parental neglect an analysis representations Australian print media, we argue that a particular constellation ‘child politics’ children are represented as innocent victims poor parenting at play. Parenting, however, code for mothers it their gendered responsibility food families they now...

What are the symbolic meanings of breakfast in context one Australia's largest childhood obesity intervention programs? Utilizing a range theoretical insights into morality food and eating anthropology food, we trace how is packaged promoted to families an Australian community as 'healthy start' day. Through ethnographic historic investigation, argue that certain types foods classed, healthy lifestyle pattern, embodying parental knowledge bodily regulation routinely structure daily life. In...

This article engages Italian migrant experiences and enactments of futurity to problematize neoliberal anticipatory approaches ageing care. Stepping beyond the focus on atomized agentic individuals a singular imagined future defined by notions advancement progress, sistemazione (home, future, security) offers ways building alternative relational futures within times spaces shared precarity. We draw ethnographic fieldwork interviews with families living in Adelaide, critical analysis objects...

By foregrounding positive and productive capacities of fat, we explore experiences expanding, maintaining, or diminishing body sizes to accommodate the different meanings enactments fat. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantage, detail how "problem" fat public health discourse is countered lived experience people targeted for obesity intervention. In so doing, attend multiple practices differ focus within...

This article discusses the value of conducting participant observation in obesity research with children an Australian community setting. Obesity is highly stigmatized, and use activity-based interviews exposed intellectual embodied consciousness that negotiate when they take part about food bodies. Instead opening up possibilities, interview-based activities can lead to a moral correctness healthy lifestyles. It was through observation, engagement what Deleuze Guattari [Citation1988. A...

This paper is concerned with the social life of a deceased Tibetan Buddhist lama. It details role death and successive lives in lifestory that ends not passing subject but his rebirth. Ethnographic attendance to tales told about lama's reincarnation, their textualization convention hagiography, or namtar, draw attention quintessentially understandings lifecourse. I argue posthumous forms lama challenge notion biological death, and, so doing, demonstrate can continue new mediums including...

When it comes to food, eating and technologies, convenience is constructed as contradictory: on the one hand a practice that saves time effort, other hand, an easy often "unhealthy" choice, contributing obesity rates. Moralizing, classed gendered discourses around health mean convenient options are rarely portrayed "good choices". Through ethnographic research food families in suburbs of Australian city, this paper disrupts negative polarized constructions debates. Building work Mol et al....

When bodies are conceived as permeable fields our physical forms become inseparable from each other and the world which they manifest. The extension of one’s subjectivity to include cosmological divinities emphasizes many which, in some cultural contexts, may overlap unite with world. In this article I explore how narratives a Tibetan Buddhist high-lama’s death trajectory lives contain complex formulations theories embodiment. An ethnographic attendance biographical writings teachings at...

This paper examines interrelated dichotomies in social anthropology and cross-cultural research on advance care directives (ACDs). It aims to recast the disjuncture between individual (Western) selves collectivist (non-Western) Others that has impeded understandings of cultural complexities decision-making at end life. Based conducted with Chinese, Vietnamese Indian communities living Adelaide, South Australia, it explores how ACDs can obscure vicissitudes bodies life, decontextualising...

Informed by values of autonomy and self-determination, advance care planning assumes that individuals should independently take control their future health. In this article, we draw on research conducted with Vietnamese health community workers to problematize individualized approaches ahead, reframe notions “cultural linguistic barriers,” expose how homogeneous messages about at the end life are not readily translatable within across diverse groups. Anthropological feminist critiques...

Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge idea a singular and bounded form. Buddhists believe that presence lama does not depend on their skin-encapsulated temporal body, lifespan. After death, it is uncommon for to materialize in other appearances become incorporated into others through devotees’ consumption bodily remains. In this article, I discuss how European ingestion holy creates new possibilities embodied intersubjectivity, also practice...

Advance care planning is built upon starting conversations about ageing, illness and the end of life. So too research in this field. In an Australian study Vietnamese migrants’ responses to ahead for aged end-of-life care, participants called into question direct approach communication. Attempting destabilise dominance Anglophone approaches advance and, moreover, area, we employ linguistic device ‘softening hedges’ both as analytic lens a methodological tool engage sensitive often taboo...

Hi‘ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese (2020) define radical care as ‘as a set of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds’ (16). Yet they sound note caution when argue that ‘because is inseparable from systemic inequality power structures, it can be used to coerce subjects into new forms surveillance unpaid labor’ This article explores scaffolded peer-to-peer programmes form care. In these approaches people are connected in non-hierarchical...

In this paper, I seek to theorise the concept of pressure in relation families’ experiences organ donation during COVID-19. Drawing on Australia-based fieldwork, follow circuitries and beyond interiorities bodies, biographies infrastructures care ask what happens when builds such an extent that there is no capacity left bodies institutions. Pressure concentrates some spaces more than others revealing uneven flows restrictions care. But how might a theorisation enable be imagined otherwise –...

Abstract This paper explores the disjuncture between medico‐legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start stop, cyclic comings goings Buddhist Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with communities Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to multiple temporalities that become implicated end‐of‐life decision‐making about how when a person may die. Thus, reorient advance care planning from linear projection single life towards considerations course. In regarding death as ongoing make...