Seminar 1: Abject embodiment: Uneven targets of fat discrimination

January 2010 at Durham University.

This seminar will specifically address aim one: to critically question the political, social, cultural and economic structures within which dominant approaches to fatness are embedded and to explore the multiple experiences of fatness according to social identities (race, gender, class, age, sexuality, etc.).

Papers and discussion will relate to the differential discursive production of, and material experiences of, fat discrimination along the lines of class, race, gender, age, etc.

Further details of speakers etc. will be posted when confirmed. (Please note: date and location are provisional and may change)