Fat Studies and Arts-Based Approaches: Positioning the Need for “Movement”

Fat studies is a field of study that provides critiques and disrupts western biomedical assumptions about fatness. Various methodologies are taken up within the field of fat studies; however, arts-based methods offer unique and distinct methodological insights to the field. Addressing these importan...

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Published in:International journal of qualitative methods 2021-12, Vol.20
Main Authors: Haney, Carly-Ann, Sitter, Kathleen C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arts
Biomedicine
Body fat
Disruption
Obesity
Positioning
Research methodology
Time
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Summary:Fat studies is a field of study that provides critiques and disrupts western biomedical assumptions about fatness. Various methodologies are taken up within the field of fat studies; however, arts-based methods offer unique and distinct methodological insights to the field. Addressing these important intersections, this methodological paper illuminates three broad arts-based research methods used in fat studies and how these methods highlight important themes of disruption, space, and temporalities. In particular, the importance of temporalities and time captured paper through arts-based methods covered are noteworthy. In the space of fat temporality, we end with a critical invitation for fat studies and arts-based scholars to innovate work using the method of performance art, specifically how performance can facilitate unique insights to create new knowledge at the intersection of fat studies and arts-based research.
ISSN:1609-4069
1609-4069
DOI:10.1177/16094069211066169