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The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Topics will be discussed are Resisting moralisation in health promotion, Anorexia, care and comfort and so on.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
| Module: 01 | |||
| Social marketing and public health with Change4Life | 00:33:00 | ||
| Children’s eating habits and food preferences: determinants and consequences | 00:47:00 | ||
| Treating obesity early in life: the common misunderstandings between parents and health care providers | 00:33:00 | ||
| Minority families and barriers to health care | 00:25:00 | ||
| Infant feeding at home and in the nursery in post-1945 Britain: an oral history approach | 00:43:00 | ||
| Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health | 00:50:00 | ||
| Beyond ‘fat tax’: What is the role and potential of food taxes? | 00:32:00 | ||
| Status Food and State Food: Notes on Obesity in Cuba | 00:25:00 | ||
| Behavioural economics and eating habits | 00:43:00 | ||
| Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013 | 00:28:00 | ||
| Module: 02 | |||
| Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity | 00:37:00 | ||
| Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma | 00:38:00 | ||
| Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the reconfiguring of social being | 00:40:00 | ||
| Obesity and physical activity: from behaviour to environment | 00:53:00 | ||
| The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating | 00:37:00 | ||
| Comparative political ecologies of food and diet: systems of provision in Trinidad and Cuba | 00:32:00 | ||
| Brief interventions for weight management in primary care | 00:34:00 | ||
| Obesity in the news media life cycle: ethics, responsibility, and stigmatisation | 00:41:00 | ||
| ‘How many bodies?’ The clinic, the kitchen and the context of obesity | 00:42:00 | ||
| Microbes matter: metabolism and chronic disease in contemporary biomedicine | 00:41:00 | ||
| Module: 03 | |||
| Bodies of water | 00:27:00 | ||
| What would the British food system look like if it took ecological public health at its heart? | 00:53:00 | ||
| The Disenchantment of the Plate | 00:27:00 | ||
| From denial to corporate social responsibility: rhetoric of the food industry on obesity prevention | 00:45:00 | ||
| Exploring critical geographies of obesity and fatness: environments, bodies and activism | 00:48:00 | ||
| Rodent Models of Obesity-Reductionist Approaches to Understanding the Basis of a Complex Human Trait | 00:52:00 | ||
| ‘It’s not fat – it’s bioprene’: marathon swimming and heroic fatness | 00:39:00 | ||
| Evidence of the effectiveness of health-related food taxes | 00:47:00 | ||
| Anthropology, Childhood, and Obesity | 00:28:00 | ||
| Behavioral biology and obesity | 00:45:00 | ||
| Module: 04 | |||
| The history of the obesity epidemic | 00:19:00 | ||
| Inequality and obesity | 00:33:00 | ||
| Political ecology of obesity | 00:18:00 | ||
| Obesity and time urgency | 00:20:00 | ||
| Is Obesity a Disease? | 00:08:00 | ||
| Clothes, Sizing and Obesity | 00:14:00 | ||
| Malaysian Food Barometer | 00:08:00 | ||
| Nutritional Anthropology Lecture- Evolution of Human Nutrition | 00:51:00 | ||
| Keynote: Nutritional States and Welfare Regimes | 00:26:00 | ||
| UNU Lecture-Systems Change and Obesity | 00:34:00 | ||
| Module: 05 | |||
| UNU Lecture- Societal Change and Health | 00:19:00 | ||
| UNU Lecture- Nutrition and Health Transition | 00:16:00 | ||
| Famine, Starvation, and Narratives of Hunger | 00:34:00 | ||
| Keynote: Evolutionary Ecology of Present-Day Obesity Production | 00:21:00 | ||
| Marketing Conscious Consumption | 00:23:00 | ||
| Political Food Served Digitally All Day? An Online/Offline Perspective on Food- Related Political Consumerism | 00:20:00 | ||
| The ‘Who’ and ‘What’ of Diabetes on Twitter | 00:25:00 | ||
| Digital Food Activism | 00:22:00 | ||
| Keynote: When Food Goes Digital: From a Mundane Point of View | 00:28:00 | ||
| Celebrity Chefs as Political Activists: Audiences, Moments and Affect | 00:23:00 | ||
| Module: 06 | |||
| Food as Media | 00:20:00 | ||
| Hacking the Food System: Technologies of Justice and Inequality | 00:32:00 | ||
| What’s next? The National Obesity Observatory | 00:15:00 | ||
| The fat(tened) American: Between consumption, disgust, and animality | 00:45:00 | ||
| The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan. | 00:40:00 | ||
| Governing Plastic Biology: Biopolitics in Epigenetic Times. | 00:42:00 | ||
| Obesity, responsibility and ethics | 00:55:00 | ||
| Sugar, Metabolisms, and Taxation – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:12:00 | ||
| The Body Mass Index in Obesity Reporting – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:15:00 | ||
| UK Food Network Responsibility Deal – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:16:00 | ||
| Module: 07 | |||
| Familial interventions for childhood obesity – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:10:00 | ||
| Bariatric surgery in childhood and adolescence – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:06:00 | ||
| Brown adipose tissue, energy balance, and obesity – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews | 00:10:00 | ||
| Advancing a model of inequalities, stress, and obesity | 00:47:00 | ||
| ‘The Great Gatsby’ curve in 3D: Inequality of outcomes, inequality of opportunities, and social mobility across countries | 00:54:00 | ||
| The influence of school on eating disorders in girls – evidence from Sweden and the UK | 00:38:00 | ||
| Familial homeostasis and negotiations of children’s eating and physical activity: An analysis of intergenerational conversations in low income US families | 00:33:00 | ||
| Epigenetics: Environment, embodiment and equality | 00:41:00 | ||
| Social Mobility: Can family policy make a difference? | 00:12:00 | ||
| Inequality, Obesity and Oxford: how to reduce car dependence | 00:33:00 | ||
| Module: 08 | |||
| The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health | 00:47:00 | ||
| Bariatric surgery’s intersubjective embodiments | 00:33:00 | ||
| Obesogenic environments | 00:15:00 | ||
| Limitations of obesity models | 00:16:00 | ||
| Genetics of obesity | 00:17:00 | ||
| Obesity governance through measurement | 00:36:00 | ||
| Global transformation of diet | 00:44:00 | ||
| Energy balance models of obesity | 00:40:00 | ||
| Food and eating | 01:00:00 | ||
| Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa | 00:31:00 | ||
| Module: 09 | |||
| Obesity and Consumption | 01:06:00 | ||
| What is Nutritional Anthropology? | 00:33:00 | ||
| Childhood Obesity in Portugal | 00:12:00 | ||
| Listening to the News Audience – What’s Missing from Obesity News? | 00:42:00 | ||
| Models of Obesity – A Book Launch | 00:13:00 | ||
| Physical activity and the built environment | 00:33:00 | ||
| Polyrational approaches to obesity | 00:57:00 | ||
| Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities | 00:16:00 | ||
| Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places | 00:53:00 | ||
| Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media | 00:19:00 | ||
| Module: 10 | |||
| Text mining techniques | 00:24:00 | ||
| Analytic approaches to media representations | 00:16:00 | ||
| Completing contemporary discourses of obesity | 00:18:00 | ||
| Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010 | 00:22:00 | ||
| The discursive regulation of ‘too fat’ and ‘too thin’ bodies | 00:21:00 | ||
| Macaques at the margins | 00:42:00 | ||
| Bitter-sweet adaptation | 00:38:00 | ||
| Anorexia, care and comfort | 00:33:00 | ||
| Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0 | 00:42:00 | ||
| Resisting moralisation in health promotion | 00:38:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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