- Title
- Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”:
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Creator
- Malan, Chantelle
- Date Issued
- 2016
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141866
- Identifier
- vital:38011
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2015.1015397
- Description
- This study examines news reporting on South Africa’s alleged “obesity” epidemic between 1997 and 2012. Results indicate that fatness is equated with disease, crisis, and dysfunction and the fat black body is singled out for particular attention as a social problem. News reporting on fat in South Africa uncritically takes up the views of sources with commercial interests who are presented as “experts” on fat. Their interpretations of the fat black body as a social problem are influenced by the imperative of new markets for products that are to be found principally in the ranks of the post-apartheid black middle class.
- Format
- 14 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Fat Studies
- Relation
- Vincent, L. and Malan, C., 2016. Interpreting press coverage of South Africa’s post-apartheid “obesity epidemic”. Fat Studies, 5(1), pp.1-13.
- Relation
- Fat Studies volume 5 number 1 1 13 January 2016 2160-486X
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- Rights
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