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Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.
In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a
fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern
fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been
essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most
medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body
more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people
are continually erased. At a moment when scholars from various
disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future,
this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the
social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from
fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies,
critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual
art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer
theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship
between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines
understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat
experience. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Body Weight and Society.
Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.
In this line of thinking, a fat life is framed as failure, and a
fast track towards death itself. Meanwhile, the histories of modern
fat existence, communities, activists, and artists have been
essentially unknown, written out of origins and existence. Most
medical and cultural evaluations of fat have rendered the fat body
more and more visible, and yet the lived experiences of fat people
are continually erased. At a moment when scholars from various
disciplines are contending with the question of who has a future,
this book explores the relationship between fat experience and the
social construction of time. The works in this volume draw from
fields as diverse as social geography, women and gender studies,
critical race theory, disability studies, cultural studies, visual
art and craft, social work, communication studies, and queer
theory, generating renewed understandings of the relationship
between fatness and temporality. The Future Is Fat reimagines
understandings of time to allow for new expressions of fat
experience. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Body Weight and Society.
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