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Governing health and consumption : Sensible citizens, behaviour and the city.
This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol "epidemics."
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Governing health and consumption
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and maps
- Acronyms
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Chapter overview
- A brief methodological note
- 2. Being sensible
- Introduction
- Responsible, sensible citizens
- The consumption of self-control
- Conclusion
- 3. Governing behaviour change in risky environments
- Introduction
- The 'problems' of obesity, drinking and inactivity
- Spatialising health agendas
- Conclusion
- 4. Obesity and strategies of rule
- Introduction
- The 'obesity debate'
- Is there a way forward?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Taming obesity: governing health and lifestyles in the US and UK
- The contested aetiologies of obesity
- Being sensible
- Conclusion
- 5. The incidentally sensible city
- Introduction
- Obese city
- Austin and the fit city
- London and active travel
- Conclusion
- 6. Events and the lucratively sensible city
- Introduction
- Participating in the mass sporting society
- Physical activity, events and mass participation
- Fun-running city: Austin, Texas
- Great running in Newcastle-Gateshead
- Conclusion
- 7. The sensible drinker and the persistence of pleasure
- Introduction
- The sensible drinking debate
- Our past drinking habits in context
- Constructing the sensible drinker
- The limited allure of sensible behaviour and the persistence of pleasure
- Conclusion
- 8. Spatial governance and the night-time economy
- Introduction
- Fashioning an urban renaissance in the 24-hour city
- Spaces of sense and sensibility: governing London's drinkers
- London's drinking spaces and drinkers
- Conclusion
- 9. What life is this? Some concluding thoughts
- Revisiting the three contentions
- Eating, exercising and drinking: overlapping and discrete lifestyle risks