Dr Bethan Evans
Tel: 0161 247 1574
E-mail: b.evans@mmu.ac.uk
Room: E416 John Dalton Extension
Research specialisms
- Geographies of bodies & body image
- Body size, fatness and critical approaches to obesity
- Geographies of young people
- Geographies of gender
- Biopolitics and risk
- Health education
Select publications
Evans B (2006) ‘‘Gluttony or Sloth?’: critical geographies of bodies and morality in (anti)obesity policy’, Area vol 38 issue 3 pp 259-267 ISSN: 0004-0894
Evans B (2006) “I’d feel ashamed’: Girls’ Bodies and Sports Participation’, Gender, Place and Culture vol 13 issue 5 pp 547-561 ISSN: 0966-369X
Evans J, Evans B and Rich E (2003) '‘The Only Problem is, Children Will Like their Chips’: Education and the Discursive Production of Ill-Health', Pedagogy, Culture and Society vol 11 issue 2 pp 215-240 ISSN: 1468-1366
Evans B (2004) '‘Be Fit Not Fat’: Broadening the Childhood Obesity debate beyond dualisms', Children's Geographies vol 2 issue 2 pp 288-291 ISSN: 1473-3285
Forthcoming publications
Colls R and Evans B (2007) ‘Embodying Responsibility: children’s health and supermarket interventions’ Environment and Planning A forthcoming ISSN: 0308-518X
Current work-in-progress
Guest editor for special issue on ‘Critical Geographies of Fat/bigness/corpulence’ for Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography ‘based on AAG 2006 sessions, ‘Placing fat/bigness/corpulence in geographical research’ (with Rachel Colls, Durham University)
Paper in progress for special issue of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography ‘on Critical Geographies of Fatness/Bigness/Corpulence’: ‘‘What not to eat’: children's bodies, schooling and (anti)obesity education’ (with Rachel Colls, Durham University)
Paper in progress for special issue of Children’s Geographies on ‘Contested bodies of childhood and youth’ (edited by Rachel Colls and Kathrin Hörschelmann, Durham University): ‘Doing more harm than good? The presence/absence of children’s bodies in obesity policy’