Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement
Think of the Hippopotamus: Rights Consciousness in the Fat Acceptance Movement
复制标题
想想河马：接受脂肪运动中的权利意识
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2008
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
A. Kirkland
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
A. Kirkland
最近对所谓的肥胖流行病的关注为理解公民权利意识和肥胖者的日常生活之间的相互作用提供了一个迷人的背景，他们既部署又抵制构成我们关于谁应该得到权利保护的最基本假设的意识形态。这项关于脂肪接受倡导者的研究询问了那些被排除在法律的保护之外的污名化的人是如何将自己描述为值得纳入反歧视法的。对来自美国各地的脂肪接受倡导者进行的深入访谈的分析揭示了管理社会生活和制定合法性的复杂技术，这些技术与更狭隘和矛盾的权利论点并存。文化上占主导地位的逻辑推理什么人值得预示什么是可能的说，在捍卫肥胖的人，在许多方面，甚至为脂肪倡导者自己。然而，在他们努力克服他们被赋予的假设的局限性时，肥胖的倡导者揭示了我们反歧视伦理中的深层矛盾，并暗示了一种思考差异的新方法。
All the recent attention to the so-called obesity epidemic provides a fascinating context for understanding interactions between civil rights consciousness and the ordinary lives of fat people, who both deploy and resist the ideological formations that make up our most basic presumptions about who deserves rights protections. This study of fat acceptance advocates asks how stigmatized people who are excluded from legal protections muster descriptions of themselves as deserving inclusion in antidiscrimination laws. Analysis of in-depth interviews with fat acceptance advocates from around the United States reveals elaborate techniques for managing social life and enacting legality that coexist with more narrowly framed and contradictory arguments for rights. Culturally dominant logics for reasoning about what persons deserve prefigure what is possible to say in defense of fat people, in many ways even for fat advocates themselves. And yet in their struggles to overcome the limitations of the presumptions they are given, fat advocates reveal deep tensions in our antidiscrimination ethics and hint at a new way to think about difference.