194 Episodo

  1. Fatness and the body 5/5: When the measure becomes the metric - making sense of the body mass index in research and practice

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  2. Fatness and the body 4/5: Fifteen (plus!) ways estrogens influence adipose tissues

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  3. Fatness and the body 3/5: Why is there a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural areas? A qualitative study of rural children's perspectives of rural foodways

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  4. Fatness and the body 2/5: Being fat or having obesity - combining social constructivism and biomedical research on childhood obesity

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  5. Fatness and the body 1/5: Childhood adversity and adiposity - examining differences by sociocultural context

    Publicado: 24/6/2024
  6. Emotions in international food law

    Publicado: 30/4/2024
  7. Sugarcoated: Sugar tax and media discourses on the context of policymaking

    Publicado: 30/4/2024
  8. Sweetness as an aesthetic relationship

    Publicado: 30/4/2024
  9. Outwitting the temporalities of ‘control’ for Type 2 diabetes in urban India

    Publicado: 30/4/2024
  10. Excess as entertainment: Mukbang and the theatrics of eating for an online audience

    Publicado: 15/12/2023
  11. From grassroots to platforms. The reconfiguration of alternative food provisioning in an online world

    Publicado: 15/12/2023
  12. Curating good choice, digital marketplace platforms and the framing of eating

    Publicado: 15/12/2023
  13. Personalised nutrition and dietary behaviour change in an online study across 7 European countries

    Publicado: 15/12/2023
  14. Lazy, crazy and disgusting: stigma and the undoing of global health

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  15. Connection and conflict: hHw neoliberal healthism and inequity shape bariatric surgery support forum dynamics

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  16. Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Kenya: Anthropology and ethics in the pursuit of public health

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  17. Cultured meat as a case study in the future of food

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  18. Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation: The necessity of understanding ‘obesity’ as a biopsychosocial phenomenon

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  19. The damaging impact of weight stigma: Psychosocial stress and harmful health consequences

    Publicado: 22/10/2021
  20. The syndemic of COVID-19, obesity and food insecurity in the United States

    Publicado: 22/10/2021

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The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This seminar series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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