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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Growing Up in the Risk Society
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Bad News: Lifestyle Risk Agenda Setting
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The Policy Nexus: Assessing Children’s Vulnerability to the TV Diet
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Beyond Blame: Unpacking Media-Saturated Domesticity
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'Stephen Kline's study of the politics of risk discourse and the globesity 'epidemic' takes us beyond the tired reliance on moral panics and sanctimonious finger waving by demonstrating how a thoughtful, deft analysis of social problems can open up possibilities of new approaches and ways of seeing children's consumer empowerment.' - Daniel Thomas Cook, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, USA
'[This] book provides a richly detailed historical perspective, which sets the present debates about food marketing in context through a meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship. In Kline's hands the "Globesity epidemic" becomes a window onto a much larger scene where parents and children need to navigate a sensible take on a vast array of personal and risky choices, while being surrounded on all sides by the competing pressures of commercial interests and government policy responses.'- William Leiss, University of Ottawa, Canada
'Steve Kline has an aptitude for provoking us to look at children's consumerism in a different way as he unpacks the complex interplay between food marketing, family lifestyle and the neoliberal marketplace. Based on sound theory and original empirical work this book offers a fresh perspective on the medicalised discourses on 'globesity' forcing us to rethink our moral panic about children's time spent in front of the TV screen.' - David Marshall, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globesity, Food Marketing and Family Lifestyles
Authors: Stephen Kline
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304741
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53740-8Published: 08 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35920-2Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30474-1Published: 08 December 2010
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 252
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Media Research, Child Well-being