Oct 15, 2021 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Sponsor
- Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
- Speaker
- Cindi SturtzSreetharan (Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Yuchuan Shen
- ycshen2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 6
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.