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The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world. This series is hosted by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Topics will be discussed are Resisting moralisation in health promotion, Anorexia, care and comfort and so on.
Assessment This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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COURSE CURRICULUM https://edukite.org/course/biocultural-variation-and-obesity-ox/
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Module: 01
Social marketing and public health with Change4Life
00:33:00
Children’s eating habits and food preferences: determinants and consequences
00:47:00
Treating obesity early in life: the common misunderstandings between parents and health care providers
00:33:00
Minority families and barriers to health care
00:25:00
Infant feeding at home and in the nursery in post-1945 Britain: an oral history approach
00:43:00
Network mathematics in the social sciences: concepts, applications, and perspectives into obesity and public health
00:50:00
Beyond ‘fat tax’: What is the role and potential of food taxes?
00:32:00
Status Food and State Food: Notes on Obesity in Cuba
00:25:00
Behavioural economics and eating habits
00:43:00
Feeding the Elderly: A study of political, societal and individual practices regarding food for the elderly in Denmark 1880-2013
00:28:00
Module: 02
Tropical Medicine Obesity, systems and complexity
00:37:00
Biocultural perspectives on globalizing fat stigma
00:38:00
Liminal living: eating disordered embodiment and the recon guring of social being
00:40:00
Obesity and physical activity: from behaviour to environment
00:53:00
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The intimacies of the celebrity chef industry: affects, effects and the mediation of eating
00:37:00
Comparative political ecologies of food and diet: systems of provision in Trinidad and Cuba
00:32:00
Brief interventions for weight management in primary care
00:34:00
Obesity in the news media life cycle: ethics, responsibility, and stigmatisation
00:41:00
‘How many bodies?’ The clinic, the kitchen and the context of obesity
00:42:00
Microbes matter: metabolism and chronic disease in contemporary biomedicine
00:41:00
Module: 03
Bodies of water
00:27:00
What would the British food system look like if it took ecological public health at its heart?
00:53:00
The Disenchantment of the Plate
00:27:00
From denial to corporate social responsibility: rhetoric of the food industry on obesity prevention
00:45:00
Exploring critical geographies of obesity and fatness: environments, bodies and activism
00:4 8:00
Rodent Models of Obesity-Reductionist Approaches to Understanding the Basis of a Complex Human Trait
00:52:00
‘It’s not fat – it’s bioprene’: marathon swimming and heroic fatness
00:39:00
Evidence of the effectiveness of health-related food taxes
00:47:00
Anthropology, Childhood, and Obesity
00:28:00
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Behavioral biology and obesity
00:45:00
Module: 04
The history of the obesity epidemic
00:19:00
Inequality and obesity
00:33:00
Political ecology of obesity
00:18:00
Obesity and time urgency
00:20:00
Is Obesity a Disease?
00:08:00
Clothes, Sizing and Obesity
00:14:00
Malaysian Food Barometer
00:08:00
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture- Evolution of Human Nutrition
00:51:00
Keynote: Nutritional States and Welfare Regimes
00:26:00
UNU Lecture-Systems Change and Obesity
00:34:00
Module: 05
UNU Lecture- Societal Change and Health
00:19:00
UNU Lecture- Nutrition and Health Transition
00:16:00
Famine, Starvation, and Narratives of Hunger
00:34:00
Keynote: Evolutionary Ecology of Present-Day Obesity Production
00:21:00
Marketing Conscious Consumption
00:23:00
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Political Food Served Digitally All Day? An Online/Of ine Perspective on Food- Related Political Consumerism
00:20:00
The ‘Who’ and ‘What’ of Diabetes on Twitter
00:25:00
Digital Food Activism
00:22:00
Keynote: When Food Goes Digital: From a Mundane Point of View
00:28:00
Celebrity Chefs as Political Activists: Audiences, Moments and Affect
00:23:00
Module: 06
Food as Media
00:20:00
Hacking the Food System: Technologies of Justice and Inequality
00:32:00
What’s next? The National Obesity Observatory
00:15:00
The fat(tened) American: Between consumption, disgust, and animality
00:45:00
The dynamics in the details: An ethnography of food aid, weights and measures in South Sudan.
00:40:00
Governing Plastic Biology: Biopolitics in Epigenetic Times.
00:42:00
Obesity, responsibility and ethics
00:55:00
Sugar, Metabolisms, and Taxation – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:12:00
The Body Mass Index in Obesity Reporting – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:15:00
UK Food Network Responsibility Deal – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:16:00
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Module: 07
Familial interventions for childhood obesity – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:10:00
Bariatric surgery in childhood and adolescence – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:06:00
Brown adipose tissue, energy balance, and obesity – UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews
00:10:00
Advancing a model of inequalities, stress, and obesity
00:47:00
‘The Great Gatsby’ curve in 3D: Inequality of outcomes, inequality of opportunities, and social mobility across countries
00:54:00
The in uence of school on eating disorders in girls – evidence from Sweden and the UK
00:38:00
Familial homeostasis and negotiations of children’s eating and physical activity: An analysis of intergenerational conversations in low income US families
00:33:00
Epigenetics: Environment, embodiment and equality
00:41:00
Social Mobility: Can family policy make a difference?
00:12:00
Inequality, Obesity and Oxford: how to reduce car dependence
00:33:00
Module: 08
The obesity epidemic and how bodies come to be through the pedagogies of digital health
00:47:00
Bariatric surgery’s intersubjective embodiments
00:33:00
Obesogenic environments
00:15:00
Limitations of obesity models
00:16:00
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Genetics of obesity
00:17:00
Obesity governance through measurement
00:36:00
Global transformation of diet
00:44:00
Energy balance models of obesity
00:40:00
Food and eating
01:00:00
Life between protocols: the pragmatics of care in a nutrition intervention in Khayelitisha, South Africa
00:31:00
Module: 09
Obesity and Consumption
01:06:00
What is Nutritional Anthropology?
00:33:00
Childhood Obesity in Portugal
00:12:00
Listening to the News Audience – What’s Missing from Obesity News?
00:42:00
Models of Obesity – A Book Launch
00:13:00
Physical activity and the built environment
00:33:00
Polyrational approaches to obesity
00:57:00
Constructing the archetypal anorectic trends in media representations of eating disordered celebrities
00:16:00
Not social mobility but deprivation mobility: places change their characteristics and people change their places
00:53:00
Dangerous engagements? Exploring pro-anorexia websites and in the media
00:19:00
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Module: 10
Text mining techniques
00:24:00
Analytic approaches to media representations
00:16:00
Completing contemporary discourses of obesity
00:18:00
Obesity in the US media, 1999-2010
00:22:00
The discursive regulation of ‘too fat’ and ‘too thin’ bodies
00:21:00
Macaques at the margins
00:42:00
Bitter-sweet adaptation
00:38:00
Anorexia, care and comfort
00:33:00
Not your good fatty: how fat activists disrupt using Web 2.0
00:42:00
Resisting moralisation in health promotion
00:38:00
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