Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists Reflections on Methods

2012 the 65th World Health Assembly approved the “global monitoring framework for the prevention and control of NCDs.”^5 To sum ...

well as a number of obesity experts (Flegal et al., 2010; Rokholm, Baker, & Sørensen, 2010). The claim that “fat people die ...

obese live longerand are more diseased than people being of normal weight? A potential explanation is that obesity experts tend ...

In view of the counterclaims about the leveling off of the epidemic in Western nations such extrapolations can be contested. In ...

evolution and the modern environment, the authors ofThe Evolution of Obesityexplain: The current epidemic of obesity thus result ...

In recent decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in populations whose environments offer an abundance of calorie-rich ...

identify ‘rules’ which contribute to obesogenic environments” (Swinburn, 2008 ,p. 5). Stressing the need for people to change th ...

immensely raises the social, economic, and political stakes. As we shall see in the next section, in this context seeing obesity ...

these nutritional failures, it is first necessary to ask: Who rules global food systems? By and large it’s ‘Big Food,’ by which ...

as lazy or repulsive.^19 The normalization of the notion of overweight peo- ple as unhealthy and making unhealthy choices offers ...

transformed into a connection: “fat people cause global warming” (Kolata, 2006 ).^22 The problem obesity experts point at in thi ...

and individuals deviant. This is significant with regard to the standard perception
described in the introduction
which holds th ...

Recently several studies have been published presenting data in support of the notion of “social contagion” (cf.Shoham et al., ...

concern; see http://www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/sociaal/opinie/columns/te-dikke- kinderen.7086047.lynkx; accessed on January 3, 20 ...

Delpeuch, F., Maire, B., Monnier, E., & Holdsworth, M. (2009).Globesity: A planet out of control?London: Earthscan. Dorfman, ...

Lee, R., McAlexander, K., & Banda, J. (2010).Reversing the obesogenic environment. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Ltd. Louder ...

Stuckler, D., & Nestle, M. (2012). Big food, food systems, and global health.PLoS Medicine, 9 (6), e1001242. doi:10.1371/jou ...

MORAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP REVISITED: POLICE OFFICERS MONITORING CANNABIS RETAILERS IN ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS Thaddeus Mu ̈ller ...

and intentions of the coffee shop managers is decisive in how they act towards them. Another difference is observed in relation ...

the Netherlands. The greater Rotterdam area has a population of over 1 million inhabitants. Over 600,000 people live in the actu ...