Ideologies & narratives in relation to ‘fat’ children as bullies, ‘easy targets’ and victims

Wendy Sims-Schouten; Helen Cowie

doi:10.1111/chso.12147

Ideologies & narratives in relation to ‘fat’ children as bullies, ‘easy targets’ and victims

Wendy Sims-Schouten
, Helen Cowie

University of Surrey

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In this paper we explore narratives in relation to ‘fatness’, drawing on focus group interviews with parents, early years practitioners, teachers and young people. The study is located in a larger study on bullying and resilience, with no specific focus on obesity or ‘fatness’. Analysis of the interview data highlighted a recurrent focus on ‘fatness’ within the participants’ narratives, by labelling and stigmatising the ‘fat kid’ and ‘bigger children’. We conclude that obesity and fatness, as abnormalities, are now included in common sense talk in relation to ‘easy targets’, victims and bullies.

Original language	English
Article number	0
Pages (from-to)	445-454
Number of pages	15
Journal	Children and Society
Volume	30
Issue number	6
Early online date	11 Jan 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12147
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2016

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Childhood Obesity
Bullying

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Sims‐Schouten, W. and Cowie, H. (2016), Ideologies & Narratives in Relation to ‘Fat’ Children as Bullies, ‘Easy Targets’ and Victims. Child Soc, 30: 445-454., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12147. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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Ideologies & narratives in relation to ‘fat’ children as bullies, ‘easy targets’ and victims

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