Archive for the ‘Socioeconomic studies of health’ Category
I have already mentioned our study ANAMIA, undertaken in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, social psychologists, philosophers, economists, and computer scientists in France and the UK. We look at the so-called “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” websites, blogs and forums (where “ana” and “mia” stand for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), which have raised lively […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Sociology, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks, Well-being
On 14th December 2012, the French National Library (BNF, Bibliothèque Nationale de France) in Paris will host the ANR ANAMIA symposium “Understanding Pro-Ana: Body, Networks and Nutrition” (Comprendre le phénomène pro-ana : corps, réseaux, alimentation). Presentations will be in French (see program here). An English summary is available here. Attendance is free of charge but […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks, Well-being
First Uncivil Bodies workshop
Today, Caroline Smith and I held our first workshop in the framework of Uncivil Bodies, our joint, funded research project exploring interdisciplinary perspectives towards eating and food. We invited specialists, stakeholders and researchers from different disciplines to participate in an open discussion on eating-disorder related websites, blogs and forums. We had a representative of Beat, […]
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Tags: Arts, Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Obesity, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, social theory, Sociology, Web-based social networks, Well-being
In the media and public opinion, economics is not immediately related to the personal, intimate sphere. Economics has to do with competition, inflation, unemployment, crisis. Or so the saying goes. However, a closer look reveals that the discipline has by and large moved away from its traditionally narrow focus to encompass a much wider range […]
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Tags: Behavioral economics, Economic analysis, History of economics, social theory, Trans-disciplinarity
BSA conference 2011 now finished
The Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association (BSA), on “60 years of sociology”, which I attended this week at the London School of Economics, is now over. A very nice experience -I appreciated the quality of the presentations, both in parallel and plenary sessions, and the organisation which was impeccable. I also felt reassured […]
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Tags: History of social science, social theory, Sociology
BSA Conference 2011
I gave my presentation on Wednesday at the ongoing annual conference of the British Sociological Association at LSE, London -great experience! My presentation was in one of the sessions of the Medicine, Health and Illness stream and followed a panel on Telemedicine. Largely by coincidence, it fitted pretty well with the other presentations and the […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks
Yesterday at the Southbank centre, I presented for the first time in public Uncivil Bodies, the project I am developing with my colleague and collaborator Caroline Smith. The event was “Endangered Species” -one of a series of workshops, held in five major world cities this month and organised by activist feminist groups around issues of […]
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Tags: Arts, Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Trans-disciplinarity, Web-based social networks
Here it is -the presentation I gave last Thursday at the XXXI Sunbelt, the Annual Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis at St Pete Beach. I focused on the fieldwork methodology, especially the conception of our web-based survey including a participant-aided sociogram drawing tool. In practice, it is a way for us […]
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Mixed methods, Network Analysis, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Social science data, Web-based social networks
This afternoon Antonio Casilli, Lise Mounier and I gave a talk at ENS Campus Jourdan in Paris about online communities of persons with eating disorders. The slides (in French!) are available below.
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Tags: Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Pro-ana and pro-mia websites, Web-based social networks
Uncivil Bodies
‘Uncivil Bodies: New Perspectives and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Eating Disorders’, is a transdisciplinary project about eating behaviours, eating disorders and how they are changing in response to today’s social, cultural, and economic transformations. It is the result of my collaboration with writer and performer Caroline Smith, a colleague at the University of Greenwich, whose practice-based […]
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Tags: Arts, Eating behaviors, Eating disorders, Food choices, Obesity, Trans-disciplinarity
