A Lamarre
Biographic Data
| ID | 28404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Lamarre |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamarre |
| SIGNATURE | LAMARRE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3031-1419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
South Asian Muslim individuals’ lived experiences of Type 2 Diabetes healthcare – ‘I just want someone to actually break it down for me’
OBJECTIVE: Type 2 Diabetes is highly prevalent across Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Asian people have a disproportionately high burden of disease. This research aimed to improve understanding of South Asian Muslim people's experiences navigating New Zealand's diabetes healthcare to promote cultural responsiveness and equitable outcomes. METHOD: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 South Asian Muslim individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. …
Emotion regulation as affective neoliberal governmentality
Emotion regulation is central in many therapy models, including couple and family therapy models. This article draws on poststructuralist governmentality studies and processual affect theory to offer insight into how the therapeutic concept of emotion regulation may reflect and support neoliberal affective forms of self‐governance. We suggest that couple and family therapy—through using professional discourses and affect‐oriented techniques or in…
“Being really confidently wrong”
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process has been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative manuscripts, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to non-positivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experi…
“My job is to keep my body healthy”
CONTEXT: The ballet institution is known for its aesthetic and performative standards. In professional dancers' everyday lives, self-improvement and body awareness entwine with striving for artistic excellence. In this context, 'health' has primarily been explored in relation to eating disorders, pain, and injuries. AIM: This paper explores dancers' health practices, namely how they are shaped by the ballet institution and how they relate to broa…
Hearing voices, but whose? Constructions of schizophrenia in introductory psychology textbooks
Introductory psychology courses have a broad reach; their textbooks are instrumental in disseminating information about mental distress. In this study, we present the theoretical implications of a Foucauldian discourse analysis of constructions of schizophrenia in six introductory psychology textbooks assigned in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia. We identify three interconnected discursive constructions within the textbooks: object-for-study, s…
The third shift
Research on the gendered division of household work in western political economies often neglects its emotional dimensions. This conceptual paper draws on concepts of emotion work and feminist care ethics to explore gendered and intersecting divisions of emotions and emotional work in couple relationships and their implications for couple therapy. Although emotion work has been studied in workplace settings, less attention has been paid to inequa…
Honouring Differences in Recovery
What would it look like to honour differences in eating disorder recovery? Recoveries from eating disorders and eating distress are enacted in relation to discursive, material, and affective flows that open and constrain different possibilities for differently embodied people. Yet, the pull toward establishing consensus on “what recovery is” continues to dominate the landscape of both qualitative and quantitative eating disorder recovery work. Wh…
Listening, learning, caring
Care has been theorised in relationship to eating disorders as a central consideration across diagnoses. In the context of avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) specifically, there is room to further develop the nuances around layers of care involved in working towards well-being. In this paper, we engage with the stories of 14 caregivers of people with ARFID, exploring their pathways to care (or lack thereof) through the healthcare s…
If I Unfollow Them, It's Not a Dig at Them”
Engaging with the encounters and interactions people have on social media opens the opportunity to think differently about eating disorder (ED) recoveries. We used narrative thematic analysis to explore the experiences of eight participants who regularly use Instagram and who are in recovery from EDs. Our analyses illustrate how participants engaged with Instagram in an active and agentic way, navigating discourses about EDs including who is impa…
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy
Reciprocal partner or spousal caregiving in romantic relationships has been identified as a key determinant of the quality of couple relationships. In this article, we interrogate this premise concerning the presumed reciprocity of caregiving in romantic relationships, focusing on cisgender heterosexual relationships and offering implications for relationships of all genders and sexualities. Looking beyond the conventional focus on individual or …
Carrying stories
Over the past decade, we have worked alongside storytellers to bring their stories into the world. These encounters have been challenging, exciting, and intimate. In this paper, we reflect on a digital/multimedia storytelling project in which we engaged with people who have experienced weight stigma in fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood care. We use the metaphors of story midwifery and surrogacy to describe the methodological-substantive interp…
What are we aiming for? Exploring tensions in healthcare provider perspectives on and communications about eating disorder recovery
Eating disorder recovery is differently understood in multi-disciplinary healthcare contexts. In this study, we sought to better understand how healthcare providers (HCPs) describe recovery and communicating about recovery. We conducted an anonymous, online, qualitative survey with 41 eating disorder HCPs. In their responses, HCPs noted that communicating about recovery was core to their practice of establishing collaboration and communication wi…
That's just healthy eating in my opinion” - Balancing understandings of health and ‘orthorexic’ dietary and exercise practices
Letting Bodies be Bodies
There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to integrating access into the arts across Canada. In this article, we explore Relaxed Performance (RP) in the context of this movement. We present the results of a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews conducted with participants who completed RP training offered by the B…
Recovering Uncertainty
Healthcare providers’ engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives
Interdisciplinary healthcare providers (HCPs) receive only minimal training in identifying, referring for and treating eating disorders and may feel ill-prepared to manage them. There is a need for brief interventions that prepare HCPs for work with people with eating disorders, particularly when they do not fit stereotypes about who might experience an eating disorder. One method for enacting brief interventions that make change in this realm is…
The eating disorder recovery assemblage
In this paper, we explore the affective-discursive-material aspects of the supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage. We approach recovery as an “assemblage” to facilitate an understanding of how human (people, systems of care, etc.) and nonhuman (affect, discourses, etc.) forces generate possibilities or impossibilities for recovery. Moving away from framings of recovery as an individual achievement, we consider the relationality and dynami…
Fat Reproductive Justice
In this paper, we explored the experiences of people in larger bodies seeking fertility and/or pregnancy care through a reproductive justice lens, integrating an understanding of weight stigma with an understanding of who has access to reproductive technologies, who is “allowed” to become pregnant, and the discourses that surround pregnancy. We conducted a thematic analysis of the narratives of 17 participants who had been labeled “overweight” or…
Chronic disease prevention evaluation in Ontario’s public health system
Words with weight
In current public health discourse, obesity is conceptualized as a disease epidemic, with treatment being weight loss. The pursuit of weight loss as a treatment for the "disease" of obesity is in direct contradiction to the history of research in eating disorders, which has demonstrated the risks for the development of eating disorders. In this study, we critically examined the eating disorder literature to explore this contradiction. We analyzed…
Bodies at the Intersections
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling
What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience of queer fat bodies? The authors examine stories generated in the collaborative, community-based research project Through Thick and Thin. They analyze a selection of 3- to 7-minute microdocumentaries produced in the project that feature assemblages of queer sexuality, gender expression and identity, and other privileged or minoritized identifications (race, dis…
Making spaces
In this article, we explore our experiences as researchers and participants in multimedia storytelling, an arts-informed method wherein we work with artists and aggrieved communities to speak back to dominant representations through film. In positioning ourselves as storytellers, we do research with rather than “on” or “for” participants, allowing us to connect in practical and affective ways as we co-create films. Drawing from dialogues about ou…
Cultivating disability arts in Ontario
Although Deaf and disability arts has been practiced under this name since the 1970s in Canada, within the last 15 years it has begun to be recognized as its own field of arts practice and production by arts councils and cultural funding bodies (Gorman 2007). Increased funding has accelerated the production of Deaf and disability art and has increased attention from arts organizations and audiences alike. With this leveling-up of Deaf and disabil…
Eating Disorder Prevention as Biopedagogy
The authors describe eating disorder prevention as biopedagogy: that is, as a set of expectations for how to manage one’s body and self to be a healthy productive citizen. This biopedagogy lands differently on different “bodies of risk”—those of people coded as at risk for eating disorders and those coded as at risk for “obesity” in a social milieu that marks certain bodies, such as those of different sizes, sexualities, ethnicities, socioeconomi…
Making spaces
In this article, we explore our experiences as researchers and participants in multimedia storytelling, an arts-informed method wherein we work with artists and aggrieved communities to speak back to dominant representations through film. In positioning ourselves as storytellers, we do research with rather than “on” or “for” participants, allowing us to connect in practical and affective ways as we co-create films. Drawing from dialogues about ou…
Normal Eating Is Counter‐Cultural
Standards for eating disorder recovery, although they originate in life‐saving methods, may be unattainable for certain individuals. We used narrative thematic analysis to explore the stories of 10 young women in eating disorder recovery. Participants' narratives highlight the complexity and counter‐cultural nature of navigating prescriptions for recovery in a sociocultural context that privileges some bodies and food‐related behaviours over othe…
Hashtag Recovery
People who have experienced eating disorders are making sense of and managing their own health and recoveries, in part by engaging with digital technologies. We analyzed 1056 images related to eating disorder recovery posted to Instagram using the hashtags #EDRecovery, #EatingDisorderRecovery, #AnorexiaRecovery, #BulimiaRecovery and #RecoveryWarrior to explore user performances of eating disorder recovery. We situated our analysis in a critical D…
Bodies at the Intersections
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Cultivating disability arts in Ontario
Although Deaf and disability arts has been practiced under this name since the 1970s in Canada, within the last 15 years it has begun to be recognized as its own field of arts practice and production by arts councils and cultural funding bodies (Gorman 2007). Increased funding has accelerated the production of Deaf and disability art and has increased attention from arts organizations and audiences alike. With this leveling-up of Deaf and disabil…
Recovering Uncertainty
Fat Reproductive Justice
In this paper, we explored the experiences of people in larger bodies seeking fertility and/or pregnancy care through a reproductive justice lens, integrating an understanding of weight stigma with an understanding of who has access to reproductive technologies, who is “allowed” to become pregnant, and the discourses that surround pregnancy. We conducted a thematic analysis of the narratives of 17 participants who had been labeled “overweight” or…
Gendered Patterns of Interaction
Letting Bodies be Bodies
There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to integrating access into the arts across Canada. In this article, we explore Relaxed Performance (RP) in the context of this movement. We present the results of a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews conducted with participants who completed RP training offered by the B…
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
The eating disorder recovery assemblage
In this paper, we explore the affective-discursive-material aspects of the supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage. We approach recovery as an “assemblage” to facilitate an understanding of how human (people, systems of care, etc.) and nonhuman (affect, discourses, etc.) forces generate possibilities or impossibilities for recovery. Moving away from framings of recovery as an individual achievement, we consider the relationality and dynami…
If I Unfollow Them, It's Not a Dig at Them”
Engaging with the encounters and interactions people have on social media opens the opportunity to think differently about eating disorder (ED) recoveries. We used narrative thematic analysis to explore the experiences of eight participants who regularly use Instagram and who are in recovery from EDs. Our analyses illustrate how participants engaged with Instagram in an active and agentic way, navigating discourses about EDs including who is impa…
Chronic disease prevention evaluation in Ontario’s public health system
Social Justice Oriented Diagnostic Discussions
In the West, the concept of mental illness represents the dominant perspective on emotional distress. Despite their prominence, psychiatric diagnoses have been subject to extensive critiques, including their suitability for increasing therapists’ understanding of distress of socially marginalized clients. Family therapists are among the professionals expected to treat mental disorders. As family therapists are becoming increasingly oriented to so…
What are we aiming for? Exploring tensions in healthcare provider perspectives on and communications about eating disorder recovery
Eating disorder recovery is differently understood in multi-disciplinary healthcare contexts. In this study, we sought to better understand how healthcare providers (HCPs) describe recovery and communicating about recovery. We conducted an anonymous, online, qualitative survey with 41 eating disorder HCPs. In their responses, HCPs noted that communicating about recovery was core to their practice of establishing collaboration and communication wi…
That's just healthy eating in my opinion” - Balancing understandings of health and ‘orthorexic’ dietary and exercise practices
Words with weight
In current public health discourse, obesity is conceptualized as a disease epidemic, with treatment being weight loss. The pursuit of weight loss as a treatment for the "disease" of obesity is in direct contradiction to the history of research in eating disorders, which has demonstrated the risks for the development of eating disorders. In this study, we critically examined the eating disorder literature to explore this contradiction. We analyzed…
A testate amoeba-based transfer function for paleohydrological reconstruction from boreal and subarctic peatlands in northeastern Canada
Expert Opinion? A Micro-Analysis of Eating Disorder Talk on Dr. Phil
In this study, we explored how eating and identities of individuals diagnosed with eating disorders are constructed on a popular television talk show, Dr. Phil. Informed by conversation analytic and discursive psychological research traditions, we show how Dr. Phil, jointly with guests, constitutes guests as mentally ill and accountable for their illness. Specifically, we highlight Dr. Phil’s unilateral pursuit of a solution to the “puzzle” of th…
Normal Eating Is Counter‐Cultural
Standards for eating disorder recovery, although they originate in life‐saving methods, may be unattainable for certain individuals. We used narrative thematic analysis to explore the stories of 10 young women in eating disorder recovery. Participants' narratives highlight the complexity and counter‐cultural nature of navigating prescriptions for recovery in a sociocultural context that privileges some bodies and food‐related behaviours over othe…
Social Justice Oriented Diagnostic Discussions
In the West, the concept of mental illness represents the dominant perspective on emotional distress. Despite their prominence, psychiatric diagnoses have been subject to extensive critiques, including their suitability for increasing therapists’ understanding of distress of socially marginalized clients. Family therapists are among the professionals expected to treat mental disorders. As family therapists are becoming increasingly oriented to so…
Gendered Patterns of Interaction
Eating Disorder Prevention as Biopedagogy
The authors describe eating disorder prevention as biopedagogy: that is, as a set of expectations for how to manage one’s body and self to be a healthy productive citizen. This biopedagogy lands differently on different “bodies of risk”—those of people coded as at risk for eating disorders and those coded as at risk for “obesity” in a social milieu that marks certain bodies, such as those of different sizes, sexualities, ethnicities, socioeconomi…
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Hashtag Recovery
People who have experienced eating disorders are making sense of and managing their own health and recoveries, in part by engaging with digital technologies. We analyzed 1056 images related to eating disorder recovery posted to Instagram using the hashtags #EDRecovery, #EatingDisorderRecovery, #AnorexiaRecovery, #BulimiaRecovery and #RecoveryWarrior to explore user performances of eating disorder recovery. We situated our analysis in a critical D…
Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling
What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience of queer fat bodies? The authors examine stories generated in the collaborative, community-based research project Through Thick and Thin. They analyze a selection of 3- to 7-minute microdocumentaries produced in the project that feature assemblages of queer sexuality, gender expression and identity, and other privileged or minoritized identifications (race, dis…
Making spaces
In this article, we explore our experiences as researchers and participants in multimedia storytelling, an arts-informed method wherein we work with artists and aggrieved communities to speak back to dominant representations through film. In positioning ourselves as storytellers, we do research with rather than “on” or “for” participants, allowing us to connect in practical and affective ways as we co-create films. Drawing from dialogues about ou…
Cultivating disability arts in Ontario
Although Deaf and disability arts has been practiced under this name since the 1970s in Canada, within the last 15 years it has begun to be recognized as its own field of arts practice and production by arts councils and cultural funding bodies (Gorman 2007). Increased funding has accelerated the production of Deaf and disability art and has increased attention from arts organizations and audiences alike. With this leveling-up of Deaf and disabil…
Healthcare providers’ engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives
Interdisciplinary healthcare providers (HCPs) receive only minimal training in identifying, referring for and treating eating disorders and may feel ill-prepared to manage them. There is a need for brief interventions that prepare HCPs for work with people with eating disorders, particularly when they do not fit stereotypes about who might experience an eating disorder. One method for enacting brief interventions that make change in this realm is…
The eating disorder recovery assemblage
In this paper, we explore the affective-discursive-material aspects of the supportive eating disorder recovery assemblage. We approach recovery as an “assemblage” to facilitate an understanding of how human (people, systems of care, etc.) and nonhuman (affect, discourses, etc.) forces generate possibilities or impossibilities for recovery. Moving away from framings of recovery as an individual achievement, we consider the relationality and dynami…
Fat Reproductive Justice
In this paper, we explored the experiences of people in larger bodies seeking fertility and/or pregnancy care through a reproductive justice lens, integrating an understanding of weight stigma with an understanding of who has access to reproductive technologies, who is “allowed” to become pregnant, and the discourses that surround pregnancy. We conducted a thematic analysis of the narratives of 17 participants who had been labeled “overweight” or…
Chronic disease prevention evaluation in Ontario’s public health system
Words with weight
In current public health discourse, obesity is conceptualized as a disease epidemic, with treatment being weight loss. The pursuit of weight loss as a treatment for the "disease" of obesity is in direct contradiction to the history of research in eating disorders, which has demonstrated the risks for the development of eating disorders. In this study, we critically examined the eating disorder literature to explore this contradiction. We analyzed…
Bodies at the Intersections
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Letting Bodies be Bodies
There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to integrating access into the arts across Canada. In this article, we explore Relaxed Performance (RP) in the context of this movement. We present the results of a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews conducted with participants who completed RP training offered by the B…
Recovering Uncertainty
Gendering of care and care inequalities in couple therapy
Reciprocal partner or spousal caregiving in romantic relationships has been identified as a key determinant of the quality of couple relationships. In this article, we interrogate this premise concerning the presumed reciprocity of caregiving in romantic relationships, focusing on cisgender heterosexual relationships and offering implications for relationships of all genders and sexualities. Looking beyond the conventional focus on individual or …
Carrying stories
Over the past decade, we have worked alongside storytellers to bring their stories into the world. These encounters have been challenging, exciting, and intimate. In this paper, we reflect on a digital/multimedia storytelling project in which we engaged with people who have experienced weight stigma in fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood care. We use the metaphors of story midwifery and surrogacy to describe the methodological-substantive interp…
What are we aiming for? Exploring tensions in healthcare provider perspectives on and communications about eating disorder recovery
Eating disorder recovery is differently understood in multi-disciplinary healthcare contexts. In this study, we sought to better understand how healthcare providers (HCPs) describe recovery and communicating about recovery. We conducted an anonymous, online, qualitative survey with 41 eating disorder HCPs. In their responses, HCPs noted that communicating about recovery was core to their practice of establishing collaboration and communication wi…
That's just healthy eating in my opinion” - Balancing understandings of health and ‘orthorexic’ dietary and exercise practices
The third shift
Research on the gendered division of household work in western political economies often neglects its emotional dimensions. This conceptual paper draws on concepts of emotion work and feminist care ethics to explore gendered and intersecting divisions of emotions and emotional work in couple relationships and their implications for couple therapy. Although emotion work has been studied in workplace settings, less attention has been paid to inequa…
Honouring Differences in Recovery
What would it look like to honour differences in eating disorder recovery? Recoveries from eating disorders and eating distress are enacted in relation to discursive, material, and affective flows that open and constrain different possibilities for differently embodied people. Yet, the pull toward establishing consensus on “what recovery is” continues to dominate the landscape of both qualitative and quantitative eating disorder recovery work. Wh…
Sociology (26 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Eating disorders (10 works)