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2. Fostering intercultural dialogue: a case study of Chinese-Canadian students’ experiences and perspectives of a kinesiology program.
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Norman, Moss E., Cheng, Kelvin, Lu, Chunlei, and Petherick, LeAnne
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Recent research has drawn attention to the culture of whiteness and Eurocentrism within post-secondary kinesiology and physical education programs. By speaking with eighteen Chinese-Canadian undergraduate students, this case study examines how Eurocentrism manifests in an undergraduate kinesiology program at a western Canadian university. We found that a subtle, yet pervasive, center–margin framework was woven throughout the teaching and research culture of the program. This binary served to legitimize Western approaches to knowing and doing health and physical activity, while marginalizing – if not excluding altogether – non-Western knowledge systems. As one possible pathway for disrupting this knowledge/power hierarchy within kinesiology, we propose building opportunities for epistemic interculturalism throughout the curriculum. We maintain that a first step towards fostering intercultural opportunities is understanding the conditions of possibility that may enable or constrain non-coercive dialogical spaces. To this end, we aspire to expose the complex and subtle everyday processes through which the hegemony of the Western tradition is reproduced, which we suggest is the most significant contribution of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. The weight of (the) matter : A new material feminist account of thin and fat oppressions
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Norman, Moss Edward and Moola, Fiona J.
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- 2019
4. Unsettling the Myth of Canadian Nationhood: Hockey and Embodied Indigenous Sovereignties.
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Norman, Moss E., Petherick, LeAnne, and Albert, Edward
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HOCKEY , *COLONIES , *HOCKEY competitions , *MYTH , *SOVEREIGNTY - Abstract
We situate the race-based division of Manitoba's Keystone Junior Hockey League as a case study to reveal the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. We argue that this split is an example of "White settler possessive logics," whereby settler belonging is naturalized through reiterative embodied acts of occupation. That this split happened in hockey, which is colloquially referred to as "Canada's game," is perhaps unsurprising given that hockey is a significant cultural site where Canadian nationhood is produced. However, we also contend that settler entitlement and belonging are never fully secure, but rather always in the process of (un)becoming. Settler belonging is thus threatened by Indigenous embodied sovereignties, which we argue can be found in the game of hockey generally, and in the Keystone Junior Hockey League specifically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Re-Inscribing Gender Relations through Employment-Related Geographical Mobility : The Case of Newfoundland Youth in Resource Extraction
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Power, Nicole and Norman, Moss
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- 2019
6. HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
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Rail, Geneviève, Molino, Luisa, Fusco, Caroline, Norman, Moss Edward, Petherick, LeAnne, Polzer, Jessica, Moola, Fiona, and Bryson, Mary
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- 2018
7. Governing Indigenous Recreation at a Distance: A Critical Analysis of an After School Active Health Intervention
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Norman, Moss E., Petherick, LeAnne, Garcia, Eric, Giesbrecht, Gordon, and Duhamel, Todd
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Within the Canadian context, the physical activity levels of children and youth in the after school time period has become a source of public health concern. We argue that this concern is informed by broader public health crises, in particular the "global obesity epidemic" and the closely related "global pandemic of physical inactivity," and that these so-called "crises" operate as part of a discursive regime that serves to justify after school interventions aimed at increasing the physical activity practices of children and youth. Although the objectives of such interventions are seemingly well intentioned, we suggest that such interventions nonetheless harbor difficult to discern, but potentially pernicious consequences, for the communities in which they are implemented. We focus our attention on the place-specific effects of one Public Health Agency of Canada-funded after school physical activity intervention--After the School Bell Rings (ASBR)--that was implemented in the mostly Indigenous, northern community of Placid, Manitoba. Based on a critical analysis of the ASBR program itself, along with interviews and focus groups with children, parents and recreation providers (n = 10) from the community of Placid, we contend that the ASBR serves to govern Indigenous recreation at a distance. We argue that when implemented in the place-specific context of Placid, the ASBR functions as part of a broader governmental assemblage composed of loosely connected discourses, institutions, socio-structural conditions and individuals that, when assembled, ultimately serve to govern geographically and culturally distinct communities. We conclude by suggesting that the objectives of broad-based health interventions, such as the goal of increasing after school physical activity levels, should not be universally implemented across diverse locales, but need to account for the diverse, place-specific priorities and needs of the communities into which they are implemented.
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- 2018
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8. Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients.
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Kanagasingam, Deana, Hurd, Laura, and Norman, Moss
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COMPULSIVE eating ,NUTRITIONISTS ,ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology) ,SOCIAL justice ,MENTAL health services ,PATIENTS' attitudes - Published
- 2023
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9. Nine: The Enemy Within: Teaching "Hard Knowledges" About "Soft Bodies" in a Kinesiology Faculty
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Norman, Moss and Petherick, LeAnne
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- 2016
10. Examining the more-than-built environments of a northern Manitoban community: Re-conceptualizing rural indigenous mobilities
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Norman, Moss E., Petherick, LeAnne, Garcia, Eric, Glazebrook, Cheryl, Giesbrecht, Gordon, and Duhamel, Todd
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- 2015
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11. Arterial Compliance is Improved Following a Community-led 12-week Indigenous Wholistic Health and Wellness Program: 914 Board #148 May 29 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Shellington, Erin M., Bredin, Shannon S.D., Kaufman, Kai L., Lai, Henry, Hare, Jan, Norman, Moss, Oh, Paul, Rhodes, Ryan, and Warburton, Darren E.R.
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- 2019
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12. Encountering fat others, embodying the thin self: Emotional orientations to fatness and the materialization of feminine subjectivities
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Norman, Moss E. and Rail, Geneviève
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- 2016
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13. “The fishery went away” : The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities
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Power, Nicole G., Norman, Moss E., and Dupré, Kathryne
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- 2014
14. Indigenous Health, Wellness, and Sport: Empowerment and Self- Determination
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Norman, Moss, Miles, Rosalin, Whitnui, Paul, and Horn-Miller, Waneek
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Purpose: The primary purpose of this symposium is to support the empowerment and self-determination of Indigenous community members from around the world providing greater ownership over health, wellness, and sport. Description: This symposium will include leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous ally scholars and community leaders in the discussion of the latest advancements in Indigenous led health, wellness, and sport initiatives. Using real world examples, the presenters will share their lived experiences and the important lessons learned through the genuine inclusion of Indigenous ways of understanding and doing in health, wellness, and sport settings. Chair and Presenter 1: Dr. Moss Norman, Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology, University of British Columbia. Title: Introduction to Symposium & The Relationship between Land, Culture, Physical Activity, Sport, and Identity Description: Dr. Norman will briefly introduce the Symposium topics and presenters. He will then discuss his experiences supporting Indigenous-centred, community-first research designs that examine the relationship between land, culture, physical activity, sport, and identity. Presenter 2: Dr. Rosalin Miles, Lytton First Nation and University of British Columbia. Title: The Empowerment and Self-Determination of First Nations Communities in British Columbia Description: Dr. Miles will discuss her lived experiences as a First Nations community leader, scholar, athlete, and high-performance coach. She will discuss the importance of the genuine engagement of Indigenous Elders, community leaders, and youth in community-based initiatives that build upon the strengths and aspirations of Indigenous peoples and communities. Presenter 3: Dr. Paul Whitnui, Ng�� Puhi, Te Aup��uri, Ng��ti Kur��, University of Victoria. Title: Developing an Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Impact Assessment Tool for Sport Dr. Whitinui is an Indigenous M��ori scholar from the Confederation of Tribes in the Far North of Aotearoa New Zealand. Description: The focus of his talk will be on lessons learned from the development of an Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Impact tool for sport. This talk will provide on-going support for coaches, athletes, trainers, managers, and leaders to better self-evaluate their professional and personal practices when working with Indigenous Peoples. Presenter 4: Waneek Horn-Miller, Mohawk, Kahnawake Territory. Title: The Warrior Within Description: Waneek will discuss her lived experiences as an Olympic athlete, coach, and Indigenous leader. Her talk will provide an example of the power of sport to help Indigenous peoples focus their emotions and experiences into achievement. Results: This symposium will provide a greater appreciation of the importance of the genuine inclusion of Indigenous ways of understanding and doing in health, wellness, and sport settings. This symposium will also include a discussion of the importance of the inclusion of a wholistic vision of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual ceremonies and practices in health, wellness, and sport settings. It is anticipated that this symposium will support an increased understanding and acceptance of traditional Indigenous practices through Indigenous-led and community-based approaches., The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
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- 2022
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15. Indigenous Gender Reformations: Physical Culture, Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Containment.
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Norman, Moss E., Hart, Michael, and Petherick, LeAnne
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ABORIGINAL Canadians , *GENDER & society , *PHYSICAL education -- History , *COLONISTS , *CONTAINMENT (Political science) , *OFF-reservation boarding schools , *SCHOOL sports , *MASCULINITY in sports , *WARRIORS , *CANADIAN history , *DECOLONIZATION , *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience - Abstract
This paper situates Euro-Western sport within a broader settler colonial logic of elimination that frames Indigenous bodies, cultures, and ideas within a politics of containment in the production of the colonized masculine subject. We use three examples to illustrate our argument, including an examination of the use of Euro-Western sport and physical culture in Indian Residential Schools, the definitional confinement of diverse and constantly adapting Indigenous cultures within contemporary Canadian sport policies, and finally the representational fixing of Indigenous masculinities within stereotypes of the hyper-masculine warrior in dominant sport media. However, sport and physical culture are also central to processes of Indigenous resilience, resurgence, and decolonization and, while these themes run throughout the paper, they are explicitly addressed in the final section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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16. Embodying aesthetic entrepreneurialism: Men, the body and the performing arts.
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Norman, Moss E. and Bryans, John F.
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BODY art , *CULTURAL industries , *AESTHETICS , *HUMAN beings in art , *MEN in art , *DANCE in motion pictures, television, etc. , *PERFORMING arts - Abstract
Scholarship has identified women as the ideal neoliberal subjects of late capitalism and, it is argued, that increasingly intensified practices of appearance and visibility are critical to their new labouring subjectivities. However, there is also a small but growing body of research on the relationship between men, the body, and practices of appearance and looking. In this article, we examine the experiences of men (n = 12, ages 23–33 years) in the highly aestheticized industry of the performing arts, including theatre, dance, film and television. Drawing on feminist- and Foucauldian-informed approaches to creative and cultural industries, we gleaned two overarching themes from this research, including: the imperative to take up a particular bodily ideal and the complexities and uncertainties this entails; and the necessity to successfully emotionally manage these complexities and uncertainties. Together these two dimensions represented key performativities in the emergence of the entrepreneurial subject for men in the performing arts. We conclude with preliminary observations about men working in industry-specific contexts, such as the performing arts, and how the experiences of these men shed insight on practices of visibility and appearance of men more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. 'It's not just to treat everybody the same': A social justice framework for caring for larger patients in healthcare practice.
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Kanagasingam, Deana, Norman, Moss, and Hurd, Laura
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OBESITY , *BODY weight , *HEALTH services accessibility , *RESEARCH methodology , *ATTITUDES of medical personnel , *SOCIAL justice , *PREJUDICES , *INTERVIEWING , *PATIENTS' attitudes , *INTERSECTIONALITY , *PATIENT care , *MEDICAL practice , *HEALTH equity , *PATIENT-professional relations , *THEMATIC analysis , *ATTITUDES toward obesity , *CONSCIOUSNESS - Abstract
Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with larger bodied patients (n = 20) and their healthcare practitioners (n = 22) in Canada, this paper combines micro and macro approaches in outlining a social justice approach to caring for larger patients in healthcare practice. Theoretically, we draw upon structural competency and critical consciousness to address the question of how social justice is enacted, experienced, and understood in interactions between clinicians and larger patients. Our findings highlight four key themes that provide a framework for integrating social justice into healthcare practice: (1) an awareness of one's simultaneous experience of marginalisation and privilege in the clinical interaction; (2) navigating between additive and interactive understandings of intersectionality; (3) micro and macro approaches to change; and (4) straddling the line between equity and equality. The synergies in participants' perspectives across social identities suggests that the cultivation of social justice awareness potentially mitigates some blinders of privilege. Furthermore, practitioners' social justice orientation positively impacted patient experience, with most patients expressing appreciation for having their various histories of trauma and social challenges handled compassionately during appointments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. Illuminating the ethical tensions in the obesity Canada website: a transdisciplinary social justice perspective.
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Kanagasingam, Deana, Norman, Moss, and Hurd, Laura
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OBESITY ,SOCIAL justice ,QUALITY of life ,THEMATIC analysis ,SOCIAL goals - Abstract
Even though considerable resources have been allocated to the study of obesity, there is no consensus on its definition, causes, or solutions. Amidst ongoing debates over understandings of obesity, Obesity Canada (OC) was established to enhance the quality of life of Canadians with obesity through the advancement of anti-discrimination, policy change, and obesity prevention and treatment. Drawing upon a transdisciplinary social justice framework, we use critical thematic analysis to examine the OC website, which is the organization's primary knowledge mobilization platform. We will address the following research question: To what extent does OC serve social justice goals that promote the best interests of larger people? We argue that the social justice potential of OC ultimately falls short and conclude with some recommendations on how the site content could be enhanced with social justice principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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19. Teaching Across the Lines of Fault in Psychology and Sociology: Health, Obesity and Physical Activity in the Canadian Context
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Moola, Fiona J., Norman, Moss E., Petherick, LeAnne, and Strachan, Shaelyn
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INTERDISCIPLINARY research , *PHYSICAL education , *PHYSICAL fitness & psychology , *PHYSICAL fitness , *SOCIOLOGY of sports , *SPORTS psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
While interdisciplinary knowledge is critical to moving beyond categorical ways of knowing, this comes with its own set of pedagogical challenges. We contend that acknowledging existing knowledge hierarchies and epistemological differences, recognizing the ideological baggage that students’ bring to the classroom in terms of their understandings of health, embracing intellectual uncertainty, and encouraging learning-as-witnessing, are fundamental to fostering an interdisciplinary pedagogy that opens up a space for dialogue between psychology and sociology. We draw on the case of obesity and physical inactivity in the Canadian context as an exemplar of a kinesiology dilemma in which both psychology and sociology have important, albeit different, roles to play. We suggest that the anxiety provoked by such an approach is not only necessary but productive to forge an intellectual space where psychologists and sociologists may better hear one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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20. Performing the Norm: Men in the Performing Arts and the Materialization of White, Heteronormative Masculinity.
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Norman, Moss Edward and Bryans, John
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HUMAN beings in art , *MASCULINITY , *PERFORMING arts , *DANCE companies - Abstract
There is a relatively robust body of scholarship examining popular cultural representations of masculinity, yet there is comparatively little research on the men who take up and perform these representations. Based on interviews with 12 men in the performing arts, including dance, theater, film, and television, we examine the everyday lived experiences of men in the arts, with a specific focus on the complex and dynamic processes by which normative masculine performances are materialized. Using Judith Butler's theory of performativity, we argue that performances of normative masculinity in the arts are not nearly as stable and certain as we might imagine. Rather, normative masculinity is continuously formed and re-formed within an assemblage of discursive and nondiscursive relations that performatively materialize the seemingly stable white, heteronormative masculine subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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21. Governing indigenous recreation at a distance: a critical analysis of an after school active health intervention.
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Norman, Moss E., Petherick, LeAnne, Garcia, Eric, Giesbrecht, Gordon, and Duhamel, Todd
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AFTER school sports , *NATIVE American recreation , *PHYSICAL activity measurement , *PUBLIC health , *OBESITY , *SEDENTARY behavior , *HEALTH care intervention (Social services) , *CHILDREN , *BASIC education - Abstract
Within the Canadian context, the physical activity levels of children and youth in the after school time period has become a source of public health concern. We argue that this concern is informed by broader public health crises, in particular the ‘global obesity epidemic’ and the closely related ‘global pandemic of physical inactivity', and that these so-called ‘crises’ operate as part of a discursive regime that serves to justify after school interventions aimed at increasing the physical activity practices of children and youth. Although the objectives of such interventions are seemingly well intentioned, we suggest that such interventions nonetheless harbor difficult to discern, but potentially pernicious consequences, for the communities in which they are implemented. We focus our attention on the place-specific effects of one Public Health Agency of Canada-funded after school physical activity intervention – After the School Bell Rings (ASBR) – that was implemented in the mostly Indigenous, northern community of Placid, Manitoba. Based on a critical analysis of the ASBR program itself, along with interviews and focus groups with children, parents and recreation providers (n = 10) from the community of Placid, we contend that the ASBR serves to govern Indigenous recreation at a distance. We argue that when implemented in the place-specific context of Placid, the ASBR functions as part of a broader governmental assemblage composed of loosely connected discourses, institutions, socio-structural conditions and individuals that, when assembled, ultimately serve to govern geographically and culturally distinct communities. We conclude by suggesting that the objectives of broad-based health interventions, such as the goal of increasing after school physical activity levels, should not be universally implemented across diverse locales, but need to account for the diverse, place-specific priorities and needs of the communities into which they are implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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22. On judgement day: Anorexic and obese women’s phenomenological experience of the body, food and eating.
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Moola, Fiona J. and Norman, Moss E.
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ANOREXIA nervosa , *OBESITY & psychology , *CULTURE , *FEMINISM , *FOOD habits , *PHENOMENOLOGY , *SHAME , *FAMILY relations , *ATTITUDES toward obesity - Abstract
In contemporary Western society, both anorexic and obese
1 bodies are regarded to be “out of bounds.” Although scholars have enhanced our understanding of anorexia and obesity, these “disorders” have most often been studied in isolation from one another. In this article, we examine the similarities and differences in the embodied experiences of anorexic and obese women. Informed by the phenomenological research tradition, we follow in the footsteps of other scholars who have already begun to depart from binarized, polarized views by describing how women living with anorexia and obesity in two Canadian provinces experience the body, food and eating. Anorexic and obese women described a vast range of intense emotional experiences to characterize their relationship to food, the body and eating. Shame marked the bodies of these women. Family relationships also changed how the women experienced the body and food over time. The women ascribed a diverse array of complex meanings to the body and food. We hope that our study opens new phenomenological terrain to dialogue with and for anorexic and obese bodies in a relational way, recognizing that both of these bodies hurt in a remarkably similar manner. In a judgement day of sorts, both anorexic and obese bodies carry the heavy burden of culture’s expectations to fit within a narrow range of normative slenderness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2017
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23. Life Lessons.
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Lafrance, Marc, Lafrance, Stirling, and Norman, Moss E.
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OBESITY ,MASS media ,PUBLIC health ,BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) ,HUMAN body - Abstract
In this article, we argue that mass media representations of obesity operate biopedagogically and, in doing so, teach viewers how to think and feel about what it means to be fat. These teachings are what we call “life lessons”—that is, lessons aimed at instructing viewers in how to relate to both their own bodies and the bodies of others—and are readily discernible in a wide variety of magazines, radio segments, and television shows. We suggest that life lessons of this sort are neither separate nor entirely distinct from public health campaigns, but rather overlap with and, at times, intensify their messages. With this in view, we undertake a four-part analysis of how the North American mass media represent obesity. In the first part, we outline contemporary theories of biopower, biocitizenship, and biopedagogy and how they can be used to make sense of these representations. In the second part, we contextualize them by providing an overview of relevant public health policy such as the United State’s Let’s Move campaign and the World Health Organization’s Prioritizing Areas for Action in the Field of Population-Based Prevention of Childhood Obesity. In the third part, we present a systematic review of the critical literature on representations of obesity with an emphasis on the North American media landscape. And in the fourth part, we submit an episode of the popular television program Nip/Tuck to an in-depth critical examination as a case study of how mass media representations of obesity function biopedagogically. In the end, we show that the representations we discuss not only reflect public health priorities but also reproduce neoliberal ideas about how to manage the life of the human body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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24. Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities.
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Norman, Moss Edward and Power, Nicole Gerarda
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CITIES & towns , *RECREATION research , *WORK , *EMPLOYMENT - Abstract
There has been a growing body of research exploring the mobility experiences of rural youth as they migrate in search of work, education and leisure. In this article we contribute to this body of knowledge by examining the mobility experiences of young women (16–24 years) living on the southwest coast of Newfoundland, Canada. In contrast to dominant constructions of rural crisis that position out-of-the-way places as in decline, dying or dead, we argue that the young women in our study articulated complex, affective relations to place. In so doing, they negotiated localized histories, prevailing social relations, broader discursive constructions and embodied affective connections in forging their emplaced feminine subjectivities. We argue that foregrounding the complex and at times contradictory relationships that the young women articulated with their rural homes is an important step in prying open dominant albeit constraining constructions of the rural, thereby allowing for alternative and more inhabitable imaginings of out-of-the-way places. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2015
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25. Rural youth and emotional geographies: how photovoice and words-alone methods tell different stories of place.
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Power, Nicole Gerarda, Norman, Moss Edward, and Dupré, Kathryne
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RURAL youth , *NARRATION , *EMOTIONS , *THOUGHT & thinking - Abstract
In this paper we discuss how photovoice and words-alone methods used in a study with young people living in communities on the west coast of Newfoundland, Canada, helped to tell different stories of rurality. Instead of the dominant narrative of rural decline in the focus groups and interviews with youth, through photovoice young people talked more positively about their home places. Drawing on recent work on emotional geographies and combining realist and constructionist frameworks, we argue that the photographs represent culturally accepted and appropriate ways of thinking, talking, and feeling about place, and that these shared affective practices provide a sense of community and continuity in a context of uncertainty in fisheries communities. It is our contention that such shared practices offer a strategy to deal with, indeed to heal, the damaging impact of the near extinction of fisheries stocks by maintaining a stable sense of self and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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26. “Dere’s Not Just One Kind of Fat”: Embodying the “Skinny”- Self Through Constructions of the Fat Masculine Other.
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Norman, Moss E.
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MASCULINITY , *RECREATION management , *MEN'S health , *ADOLESCENT obesity , *OBESITY & psychology , *BODY weight , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In the current sociopolitical context, the lean, muscular body has come to epitomize masculine health and beauty. Not all boys and young men, however, unequivocally subscribe to dominant constructions that position fatness as unhealthy and unattractive. Using qualitative inquiry with thirty-two “skinny” or “normal”-bodied young men (thirteen to fifteen years of age), I demonstrate that fat talk is a prominent resource through which “normal” masculine embodiment is achieved. More specifically, I reveal that sociocultural positioning influences how young men take up, make sense of, and articulate constructions of fatness and demonstrate how such articulations function in the materialization of their “normal” embodied subjectivities. I also examine how fat masculinities operate differently within diverse emplaced contexts and in relation to distinct discursive communities. Such a line of investigation I argue helps to reveal the ways in which power relations of privilege and oppression are performatively embodied in everyday contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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27. Embodying the Double-Bind of Masculinity: Young Men and Discourses of Normalcy, Health, Heterosexuality, and Individualism.
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Norman, Moss E.
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YOUNG men , *MASCULINITY , *SUBJECTIVITY , *HUMAN body , *SELF , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Using a poststructural framework, this article critically examines how young men (13—15 years) actively fashion embodied masculine subjectivities by taking up available subject positions within discourse. The study employed semistructured focus groups and interviews with thirty-two participants from two locations in a large urban Canadian city. It is argued that young men are confronted with competing discourses of masculinity where they are simultaneously incited to work on and transform their bodies into culturally recognizable ideals, while at the same time remaining distant and aloof to the size, shape, and appearance of their bodies. Resolving this double-bind of masculinity, it is argued, remains a central task of reproducing the privileges of masculinity. This study demonstrated that young men take up, deploy, and perform discourses of normalcy, healthy active living, heterosexuality, and individualism as technologies of the self in negotiating the double-bind of masculinity. This study extends our knowledge base on the embodied experiences of young men. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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28. ‘Bladerunner or boundary runner’?: Oscar Pistorius, cyborg transgressions and strategies of containment.
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Norman, Moss E. and Moola, Fiona
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SOCIAL theory ,SPORTS for people with disabilities ,CYBORGS ,PROSTHETICS - Abstract
This article uses disability studies and cyborg theory as lenses to explore the disabled body in contemporary sporting contexts and situates the reader by critically reviewing social theory. Using the case of Oscar Pistorius, a South African Paralympian, we explore how the intense scrutiny on his prostheses forecloses examining how scientific discourses are called upon as arbiters to discern the ‘truth’ of his body. Moreover, while Pistorius invariably transgresses the boundaries of the modern sporting project and liberal humanist subject, he is subjected to powerful strategies of containment and domination. Threatening to undo secure notions of humanness, we illustrate how Pistorius is both fascinating and anxiety-provoking, and renders moral angst in the public consciousness. In order to rethink the stranglehold of ability and disability in the collective psyche and ‘do’ disability sport differently, this article calls for a radical cyborg politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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29. Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland.
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Norman, Moss E., Gerarda Power, Nicole, and Dupré, Kathryne
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LEISURE ,CONSUMERISM ,FEMINISM ,PSYCHOLOGICAL stress ,SOCIOLOGY ,MASCULINITY - Abstract
Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with youth (12–24 years) living in rural, coastal Newfoundland, Canada, we examine how leisure practices within this context served to reproduce and naturalize localized gender relations. More specifically, we argue that the participants drew upon dominant discursive constructions of rural leisure to reiteratively enact a binary distinction between the ‘town’ as a space of constraint, youth-adult tensions, and consumerism in contrast to the freedom and privacy of the ‘woods’. This dichotomy was mapped onto gender binaries, where the town was coded as feminine and the woods, masculine. We argue that these constructions served to mark the boundaries of normative gender leisure practices in the production of embodied gender subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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30. Managing the Planet : The Politics of the New Millennium
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Norman Moss and Norman Moss
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- Environmental management, Environmental management--International cooperation, Environmental policy, Ecology--International cooperation
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We are at a watershed of history. The human race is now so numerous and its technological power so great that we are having an unprecedented impact on the biosphere, the entire planet. The need to control this impact is giving rise to a new kind of politics - the politics of the planet. The most urgent problem we face is that of climate change. This book gives a vigorous and candid account of how governments tentatively felt their way to the first international agreements on climate change and the ozone layer, how these work, and the long-term implications for global governance. It points to the roles that businesses and ordinary citizens can play, and the changes we can expect in our daily lives. This is an area in which politics, technology and economics meet. In this sweeping and energetic book, the author goes on to look at the major planetary issues that confront us now or that are close over the horizon, and the ethical issues of our relationship to our environment that they raise. Amid the dangers, he finds ground for hope. Anyone with an interest in the human condition as we spin further into the new century will find this an enlightening and rewarding book. Originally published in 2000
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- 2000
31. "With Every Step, We Grow Stronger": The Cardiometabolic Benefits of an Indigenous-Led and Community-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention.
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Lai, Henry P.H., Miles, Rosalin M., Bredin, Shannon S.D., Kaufman, Kai L., Chua, Charlie Z.Y., Hare, Jan, Norman, Moss E., Rhodes, Ryan E., Oh, Paul, and Warburton, Darren E.R.
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AEROBIC capacity ,BODY composition ,SYSTOLIC blood pressure ,PHYSICAL fitness ,BODY mass index ,MOTIVATIONAL interviewing - Abstract
Community-based and Indigenous-led health and wellness approaches have been widely advocated for Indigenous peoples. However, remarkably few Indigenous designed and led interventions exist within the field. The purpose of this study was to evaluate an Indigenous-led and community-based health and wellness intervention in a remote and rural Indigenous community. This protocol was designed by and for Indigenous peoples based on the aspirations of the community (established through sharing circles). A total of 15 participants completed a 13-week walking and healthy lifestyle counselling program (incorporating motivational interviewing) to enhance cardiometabolic health. Measures of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA; 7-day accelerometry and self-report), predicted maximal aerobic power (VO
2 max; 6-min walk test), resting heart rate and blood pressure, and other health-related physical fitness measures (musculoskeletal fitness and body composition) were taken before and after the intervention. The intervention led to significant (p < 0.05) improvements in VO2 max (7.1 ± 6.3 % change), with the greatest improvements observed among individuals with lower baseline VO2 max (p < 0.05, r = -0.76). Resting heart rate, resting systolic blood pressure, and resting diastolic blood pressure decreased significantly (p < 0.05) after the intervention. Self-reported and accelerometry-measured frequency of MVPA increased significantly (p < 0.05), and the total MVPA minutes (~275 min/week) were above international recommendations. Change in VO2 max was significantly correlated with change in self-reported (r = 0.42) and accelerometry-measured (r = 0.24) MVPA minutes. No significant changes were observed in weight, body mass index, waist circumference, body fat (via bioelectrical impedance), grip strength, and flexibility. These findings demonstrate that a culturally relevant and safe, community-based, Indigenous-led, health and wellness intervention can lead to significant and clinically relevant improvements in cardiometabolic health and physical activity behaviour, with the greatest changes being observed in the least active/fit individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2019
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32. 'With Every Step, We Grow Stronger': The Cardiometabolic Benefits of an Indigenous-Led and Community-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention
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Lai, Henry P.H., Miles, Rosalin M., Bredin, Shannon S.D., Kaufman, Kai L., Chua, Charlie Z.Y., Hare, Jan, Norman, Moss E., Rhodes, Ryan E., Oh, Paul, and Warburton, Darren E.R.
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2. Zero hunger ,human activities ,3. Good health - Abstract
Community-based and Indigenous-led health and wellness approaches have been widely advocated for Indigenous peoples. However, remarkably few Indigenous designed and led interventions exist within the field. The purpose of this study was to evaluate an Indigenous-led and community-based health and wellness intervention in a remote and rural Indigenous community. This protocol was designed by and for Indigenous peoples based on the aspirations of the community (established through sharing circles). A total of 15 participants completed a 13-week walking and healthy lifestyle counselling program (incorporating motivational interviewing) to enhance cardiometabolic health. Measures of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA; 7-day accelerometry and self-report), predicted maximal aerobic power (VO2max; 6-min walk test), resting heart rate and blood pressure, and other health-related physical fitness measures (musculoskeletal fitness and body composition) were taken before and after the intervention. The intervention led to significant (p < 0.05) improvements in VO2max (7.1 ± 6.3 % change), with the greatest improvements observed among individuals with lower baseline VO2max (p < 0.05, r = -0.76). Resting heart rate, resting systolic blood pressure, and resting diastolic blood pressure decreased significantly (p < 0.05) after the intervention. Self-reported and accelerometry-measured frequency of MVPA increased significantly (p < 0.05), and the total MVPA minutes (~275 min/week) were above international recommendations. Change in VO2max was significantly correlated with change in self-reported (r = 0.42) and accelerometry-measured (r = 0.24) MVPA minutes. No significant changes were observed in weight, body mass index, waist circumference, body fat (via bioelectrical impedance), grip strength, and flexibility. These findings demonstrate that a culturally relevant and safe, community-based, Indigenous-led, health and wellness intervention can lead to significant and clinically relevant improvements in cardiometabolic health and physical activity behaviour, with the greatest changes being observed in the least active/fit individuals.
33. The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology.
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Norman, Moss Edward
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OBESITY , *NONFICTION - Abstract
The article reviews the book "The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology," by M. Gard and J. Wright.
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