Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7459166 | Health & Place | 2013 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Resting on the notion that rural spaces are “food deserts,” rural adolescents are increasingly regarded as a “problem population” in Western obesity narratives. Using qualitative data gleaned from interviews with 51 teenage participants from rural areas across Canada, this paper focuses on the ways in which obesity is constructed as a rural disease in the Canadian context, demonstrating in particular how discourses of food deserts and related rural obesity rely on classist imaginings of obesity as a working-class embodiment. The paper will further question the understanding of the rural as a food desert, showing the ways in which rural teens acquire fresh, healthy foods in part through an informal economy of food growing and sharing.
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Authors
Deborah McPhail, Gwen E. Chapman, Brenda L. Beagan,