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Using interviews to research body size: methodological and ethical considerations
Author(s) -
Lloyd Jenny,
Hopkins Peter
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12199
Subject(s) - scholarship , field (mathematics) , sociology , engineering ethics , ethical issues , work (physics) , order (exchange) , social science , political science , law , engineering , pure mathematics , economics , mechanical engineering , mathematics , finance
Fat studies has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary field of scholarship; it aims at challenging dominant, negative and medicalised discourses about fat bodies. Despite the growth of scholarship in this field in human geography, there has been limited discussion of the methodological and ethical issues involved in undertaking such work. This article draws on two research projects on body size – the first about expatriates in S ingapore and the second about young people in the UK – in order to discuss some of the methodological and ethical considerations involved in using interviews to research the sized body.