“Obesity” and the Public: An analysis of the public communication of “obesity” science in South Africa targeted at Black women
• This study explores public science, mass media and public policy discourses linked to “obesity” through a multidisciplinary framework and uses decolonial, Black feminist and liberatory theories. Through archival, bibliometric and media discourse data, this research seeks to give a historical account of anti-fat narratives and ideological orientations in scientific research, mass media, and government policy texts and how they may harm Black women through moralisation, medicalisation, and pathologisation of our bodies.
Supervisor: Prof M Iqani, CREST, Stellenbosch University
