Isabel Fletcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 319197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Fletcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fletcher |
| SIGNATURE | FLETCHER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7066-502X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆
This is one of the first studies of food provisioning in remote rural areas of Scotland and England, providing evidence of precarity in food access at the same time as agricultural products are exported from the region to the global food system. We interviewed residents of four remote and rural areas of the UK about their food shopping habits and their purchase of local foods. Using theoretical resources from social science literature on food sho…
Introduction
Talking STS is a collection of interviews and accompanying reflections on the origins, the present and the future of the field referred to as Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society (STS). The volume assembles the thoughts and recollections of some of the leading figures in the making of this field. The occasion for producing the collection has been the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Edinburgh’…
Imagining Alternative and Better Worlds
In this interview, Adele Clarke and Isabel Fletcher discuss the different routes that led Clarke to science and technology studies (STS), the field’s increasing engagement with biomedical topics, and her perspectives on its character today. Clarke describes how women’s health activism and teaching feminist critiques of bioscience/biomedicine led her to participate in academic networks now known as feminist STS and trans-national reproduction stud…
Sustainable Diets
The many meanings of obesity now and then
Nutritionism
Gyorgy Scrinis' historical account of nutrition and its incorporation into North American dietary advice provides a new framework for understanding this history, and a critique of contemporary nutr
Defining an epidemic
Between the 1970s and the mid‐1990s the body mass index ( BMI ) became the standard means of assessing obesity both in populations and in individuals, replacing previously diverse and contested definitions of excess body weight. This article draws on theoretical approaches from the sociology of standards and science and technology studies to describe the development of this important new standard and the ways in which its adoption facilitated the…
The Rise of Obesity in Europe
Defining an epidemic
Between the 1970s and the mid‐1990s the body mass index ( BMI ) became the standard means of assessing obesity both in populations and in individuals, replacing previously diverse and contested definitions of excess body weight. This article draws on theoretical approaches from the sociology of standards and science and technology studies to describe the development of this important new standard and the ways in which its adoption facilitated the…
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆
This is one of the first studies of food provisioning in remote rural areas of Scotland and England, providing evidence of precarity in food access at the same time as agricultural products are exported from the region to the global food system. We interviewed residents of four remote and rural areas of the UK about their food shopping habits and their purchase of local foods. Using theoretical resources from social science literature on food sho…
The Rise of Obesity in Europe
Nutritionism
Gyorgy Scrinis' historical account of nutrition and its incorporation into North American dietary advice provides a new framework for understanding this history, and a critique of contemporary nutr
Defining an epidemic
Between the 1970s and the mid‐1990s the body mass index ( BMI ) became the standard means of assessing obesity both in populations and in individuals, replacing previously diverse and contested definitions of excess body weight. This article draws on theoretical approaches from the sociology of standards and science and technology studies to describe the development of this important new standard and the ways in which its adoption facilitated the…
The many meanings of obesity now and then
Sustainable Diets
Introduction
Talking STS is a collection of interviews and accompanying reflections on the origins, the present and the future of the field referred to as Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society (STS). The volume assembles the thoughts and recollections of some of the leading figures in the making of this field. The occasion for producing the collection has been the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Edinburgh’…
Imagining Alternative and Better Worlds
In this interview, Adele Clarke and Isabel Fletcher discuss the different routes that led Clarke to science and technology studies (STS), the field’s increasing engagement with biomedical topics, and her perspectives on its character today. Clarke describes how women’s health activism and teaching feminist critiques of bioscience/biomedicine led her to participate in academic networks now known as feminist STS and trans-national reproduction stud…
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK☆
This is one of the first studies of food provisioning in remote rural areas of Scotland and England, providing evidence of precarity in food access at the same time as agricultural products are exported from the region to the global food system. We interviewed residents of four remote and rural areas of the UK about their food shopping habits and their purchase of local foods. Using theoretical resources from social science literature on food sho…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)