Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”:

Title: Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”:
Creator: Vincent, Louise, Malan, Chantelle
Date: 2016
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141866
Identifier: vital:38011
Identifier: DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2015.1015397
Description: This study examines news reporting on South Africa’s alleged “obesity” epidemic between 1997 and 2012. Results indicate that fatness is equated with disease, crisis, and dysfunction and the fat black body is singled out for particular attention as a social problem. News reporting on fat in South Africa uncritically takes up the views of sources with commercial interests who are presented as “experts” on fat. Their interpretations of the fat black body as a social problem are influenced by the imperative of new markets for products that are to be found principally in the ranks of the post-apartheid black middle class.
Format: 14 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Fat Studies, Vincent, L. and Malan, C., 2016. Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”. Fat Studies, 5(1), pp.1-13., Fat Studies volume 5 number 1 1 13 January 2016 2160-486X
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