Diet Culture and Counterculture

Natalie Jovanovski is Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences and Social Equity Research Centre (SERC) at RMIT University, Australia. She is also an Honorary Fellow in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne, Australia. As a health sociologist, Natalie’s research explores the sociocultural factors that shape people’s relationships with food, eating and their bodies, especially women. Her first book, Digesting Femininities: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), won the TASA Raewyn Connell Prize in 2018.

• Diet Culture and Counterculture: An Introduction.- Theorising Diet Culture: Confronting the Structure Versus Agency Debate.- Challenging Diet Culture: The Strategies of Social Movements.- Tracing Diet Culture: Unpacking Power and Domination.- Embodying Diet Culture: Radical Self-Care and the Diet Habitus.- Communicating Diet Culture: Anti-Diet Talk and Relations of Resistance.- Care as Anti-Diet Practice: Unifying a Fragmented Movement.- Diet Counterculture and the Future: Concluding Thoughts.