Fat Pedagogy and Environmental Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Mindfully Embodied Connections in Environmental Education Work

Abstract

Environmental education is one site of many that reinforces dominant obesity discourses and weight-based oppression through privileging fit, able bodies. Using personal narratives and insights from the nascent field of fat studies, we will offer a critical analysis of obesity discourse in environmental writing in general and environmental education in particular. We will argue that intersectional analyses of embodiment, abjection, and crisis rhetoric could be generative for both environmental education and fat studies.

Authors

• Constance L. Russell, Lakehead University

• Erin M. Cameron, Lakehead University

• Teresa Socha, Lakehead University

• Hannah McNinch, Lakehead University