@article{ref1,
title="Civilising recalcitrant boys' bodies: pursuing social fitness through the anti-obesity offensive",
journal="Sport, education and society",
year="2014",
author="Monaghan, Lee F.",
volume="19",
number="6",
pages="691-711",
abstract="Obesity discourse provides a commonly recycled rationale for multiple, ostensibly well-intended, interventions. Formal educational settings sometimes operate as sites for these biopedagogies which putatively promote &quot;good health&quot; among young people as they transition to &quot;responsible&quot; adulthood. Yet, regulation and control, or the pursuit of social fitness, may be more pressing concerns. Drawing from an ethnography of a &quot;Health and Youth&quot; college initiative in Northeast England, directed at recalcitrant boys who risked school exclusion, this article considers how the war on obesity provided a rationale for middle-class efforts to instil civility. Despite educators' best intentions, the initiative also provided a stage and props for cruder forms of bullying among the boys. This article critiques (un)civilised fat oppression in this setting as part of a larger interrogation of the state sponsored anti-obesity offensive. Connections are made with literature on the civilising process, obesity discourse, boys' bodies, health and education.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1357-3322",
doi="10.1080/13573322.2012.716034",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2012.716034"
}