The average size of human bodies all over the world has been
steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people
clinically labeled “obese” is now at least three times what it
was in 1980. Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to
consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to
people. Making use of an array of social science perspectives
applied in multiple settings, the authors examine the interplay of
weight, wealth, history, culture, and meaning to fat and its social
rejection. They explore the notion of symbolic body capital—the
power of non-fat bodies to do what people need or want. In so
doing, they illustrate the complex and quickly shifting dynamics in
thinking about fat—often considered personal yet powerfully
influenced by and influential upon the broader world in which we
live.
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