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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Epigenetics and obesity: The reproduction of habitus through intracellular and social environments |
Author: | Warin, M. Moore, V. Davies, M. Ulijaszek, S. |
Citation: | Body and Society, 2016; 22(4):53-78 |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 1357-034X 1460-3632 |
Abstract: | Bourdieu suggested that the habitus contains the ‘genetic information’ which both allows and disposes successive generations to reproduce the world they inherit from their parents’ generation. While his writings on habitus are concerned with embodied dispositions, biological processes are not a feature of the practical reason of habitus. Recent critiques of the separate worlds of biology and culture, and the rise in epigenetics, provide new opportunities for expanding theoretical concepts like habitus. Using obesity science as a case study we attempt to conceptualise the enfolding of biological and social processes (via a Deleuzian metaphor) to develop a concept of biohabitus – reconfiguring how social and biological environments interact across the life course, and may be transmitted and transformed intergenerationally. In conclusion we suggest that the enfolding and reproduction of social life that Bourdieu articulated as habitus is a useful theoretical frame that can be enhanced to critically develop epigenetic understandings of obesity, and vice versa. |
Keywords: | biohabitus; epigenetics; folding; obesity |
DOI: | 10.1177/1357034X15590485 |
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Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Gender Studies and Social Analysis publications |
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