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Nutrire CoLab members Megan Warin, Lauren Carruth, Dana Simmons, and Emily Yates-Doerr discuss and respond to the new Obesity Guidelines recently issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Megan Warin is professor of anthropology in the school of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on the gendered dynamics of disordered eating, structural disadvantage and obesity, public health interventions around food, nutrition and alcohol, and public understandings of obesity science. Recent projects explore the value of epigenetics in the contexts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander science and intergenerational trauma, the reproduction of shame in DOHaD design, and models of social and radical care in Australia and Pacific locations. She and Tanja Zivkovic published Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs: Unpalatable Politics with Palgrave Press in 2019.
Dana Simmons is an associate professor of history at the University of California Riverside. Her research interests include hunger, nutrition, soil and plant science, political economy, the human sciences, feminist theory and technopolitics. Her book, Vital Minimum: Need, Science and Politics in Modern France, traces the history of the concept of the living wage as a measure of physical and social needs (Chicago 2015). She is currently working on a project tracing the science and politics of hunger.
Lauren Carruth is an associate professor and medical anthropologist in the School of International Service at American University, where she specializes in humanitarian assistance, global health, nutrition, displacement, migration, and the Horn of Africa. Her book Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region, was published in 2021 by Cornell University Press. It focused on labor and inequity within the global humanitarian industry, drawing attention to subaltern systems of care and crisis response among local aid workers. She has also published on diabetes and zoonotics diseases among pastoralists, and the irregular migrations of Ethiopians for jobs in Persian Gulf states.
Emily Yates-Doerr is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and Oregon State University. Her research concentrates on health, food justice, and social inequality. Her previous project traced the emergence of obesity in the Guatemalan highlands, resulting in her book The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala (2015). She is finishing a book that offers a feminist critique of human capital and vitamin supplements in American (specifically US and Guatemalan) nutrition.
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