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Using interviews to research body size: methodological and ethical considerations

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Abstract

Fat studies has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary field of scholarship; it aims at challenging dominant, negative and medicalised discourses about fat bodies. Despite the growth of scholarship in this field in human geography, there has been limited discussion of the methodological and ethical issues involved in undertaking such work. This article draws on two research projects on body size – the first about expatriates in Singapore and the second about young people in the UK – in order to discuss some of the methodological and ethical considerations involved in using interviews to research the sized body.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 305-310

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Area (Volume 47, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 11/05/2015

Publication status

Published - 11/05/2015

ISSN

0004-0894

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/621969
  • Scopus: 84938979542

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