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CEAPS Speaker - Cindi SturtzSreetharan "Enacting and Experiencing Fat Stigma: Stories from Japan"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Date
Oct 15, 2021   3:00 - 4:30 pm  
Speaker
Cindi SturtzSreetharan (Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)
Registration
Registration
Contact
Yuchuan Shen
E-Mail
ycshen2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Understanding language as social action draws attention to the ways in which fat stigmatizing discourses do social harm. Drawing on interviews and experiences from women and men in Osaka, Japan, I look closely at how fat stigma is expressed in Japanese, both blatantly and through more subtle language use. I focus on four key themes in people’s narratives around localized ideas about fatness.

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