Jacqui Gingras
Biographic Data
| ID | 72117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqui Gingras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqui |
| FAMILY NAME | Gingras |
| SIGNATURE | GINGRAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8854-6574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kitchen Table Pedagogy
The three of us (be)come together, yes on Zoom calls and in Google docs, and in a way that re-imagines the sitting together at a well-worn kitchen table to animate our current shared preoccupations. The table has seen many conversations before us, so it’s well-worn by feminist scholars who were also troubled, yearning, and adamant about leaving their marks. We have come to, become at, this type of table for centuries, sitting together preparing f…
Fat food justice
This special issue emerged from a sense of disconnection experienced by the members of the guest co-editorial team who seek to advance food justice as food studies scholars on one hand and fat liberation as fat studies scholars on the other. We assert that, despite their similarities and shared commitments to social and structural justice, there has been little cross-pollination between the fat studies and food studies communities. Fat studies sc…
Longing for Recognition
Longing for Recognition offers a radical new way of understanding nutritional health practices. In contemporary food culture, the work of dietitians has accrued new and urgent meaning, and Longing for Recognition is addressed to that group of practitioners. The author, herself a dietitian, crafts an autoethnographic fiction that presents a critical and thought-provoking argument for a more self-reflexive, relational, and embodied profession. Her …
You Have the Right to Remain Fat
Exposed social flesh
Recently, a small but growing literature has emerged investigating and outlining what a fat studies pedagogy might entail. Missing from much of this literature is a discussion about how the material body becomes a site through which “obesity” discourse is resisted or reproduced in the classroom. The authors attempt to fill this gap by focusing in particular on the educator’s body. They present the deepened understanding that results when three di…
Community–university research partnerships
Community-university research partnerships (CURPs) are increasingly common, yet much of the existing research documents the experiences of individual projects or analyzes research methodologies associated with CURPs. Comparatively little is known about the role of university research centers in the design and implementation of CURPs. Even less is known about the role that interdisciplinarity (as a de facto characteristic of research centers) may …
Theorizing health at every size as a relational–cultural endeavour
Mainstream dietetics buttresses a conventional weight management agenda that is associated with weight preoccupation, body dissatisfaction, size oppression, and troubled eating. Coterminous with this agenda is healthism, which taken together, impede dietitians’ engagement with a health at every size (HAES) paradigm, a paradigm driven by concern for equality. Yet, HAES has also been critiqued for having healthist tendencies. The purpose of this pa…
Inside the Actors' Studio
Two colleagues, Ann and Jacqui, came together, within the safety of an imagined actors' studio, to explore the challenges that Ann faced in planning a new graduate program in public health nutrition. They met before, during, and after program implementation to discuss Ann's experiences, and audio-taped and transcribed the discussions. When all three sessions had concluded, they reviewed the transcripts and discussed their insights further. In doi…
The passion and melancholia of performing dietitian
Dietitians provide nutritional care in various contexts and it is expected that dietetic subjectivity shapes and is shaped by health/nutrition discourse, but this has not been sufficiently explored. The purpose of this study was to further understand dietetic subjectivity, dietitians' experiences of their education and relationships between educational and practice discourses. Twelve dietitians were recruited to participate in semi-structured res…
Mandarin Peelings and Lola's Tinola
Cultural food narratives and the pedagogical process to initiate such narratives offer meaning to our food memories, nostalgias and reminiscences. We theorize subjectivity and belonging through a performative process of “narrative conversation” enacted between student and teacher as co-learners seeking to dwell deeply among the interstices of language and silence, subjectivity and culture, self and Other. While we acknowledge the risk for exploit…
Evoking trust in the nutrition counselor
Longing for Recognition
Longing for Recognition offers a radical new way of understanding nutritional health practices. In contemporary food culture, the work of dietitians has accrued new and urgent meaning, and Longing for Recognition is addressed to that group of practitioners. The author, herself a dietitian, crafts an autoethnographic fiction that presents a critical and thought-provoking argument for a more self-reflexive, relational, and embodied profession. Her …
Evoking trust in the nutrition counselor
Community–university research partnerships
Community-university research partnerships (CURPs) are increasingly common, yet much of the existing research documents the experiences of individual projects or analyzes research methodologies associated with CURPs. Comparatively little is known about the role of university research centers in the design and implementation of CURPs. Even less is known about the role that interdisciplinarity (as a de facto characteristic of research centers) may …
Inside the Actors' Studio
Two colleagues, Ann and Jacqui, came together, within the safety of an imagined actors' studio, to explore the challenges that Ann faced in planning a new graduate program in public health nutrition. They met before, during, and after program implementation to discuss Ann's experiences, and audio-taped and transcribed the discussions. When all three sessions had concluded, they reviewed the transcripts and discussed their insights further. In doi…
The passion and melancholia of performing dietitian
Dietitians provide nutritional care in various contexts and it is expected that dietetic subjectivity shapes and is shaped by health/nutrition discourse, but this has not been sufficiently explored. The purpose of this study was to further understand dietetic subjectivity, dietitians' experiences of their education and relationships between educational and practice discourses. Twelve dietitians were recruited to participate in semi-structured res…
Mandarin Peelings and Lola's Tinola
Cultural food narratives and the pedagogical process to initiate such narratives offer meaning to our food memories, nostalgias and reminiscences. We theorize subjectivity and belonging through a performative process of “narrative conversation” enacted between student and teacher as co-learners seeking to dwell deeply among the interstices of language and silence, subjectivity and culture, self and Other. While we acknowledge the risk for exploit…
Evoking trust in the nutrition counselor
Mandarin Peelings and Lola's Tinola
Cultural food narratives and the pedagogical process to initiate such narratives offer meaning to our food memories, nostalgias and reminiscences. We theorize subjectivity and belonging through a performative process of “narrative conversation” enacted between student and teacher as co-learners seeking to dwell deeply among the interstices of language and silence, subjectivity and culture, self and Other. While we acknowledge the risk for exploit…
The passion and melancholia of performing dietitian
Dietitians provide nutritional care in various contexts and it is expected that dietetic subjectivity shapes and is shaped by health/nutrition discourse, but this has not been sufficiently explored. The purpose of this study was to further understand dietetic subjectivity, dietitians' experiences of their education and relationships between educational and practice discourses. Twelve dietitians were recruited to participate in semi-structured res…
Inside the Actors' Studio
Two colleagues, Ann and Jacqui, came together, within the safety of an imagined actors' studio, to explore the challenges that Ann faced in planning a new graduate program in public health nutrition. They met before, during, and after program implementation to discuss Ann's experiences, and audio-taped and transcribed the discussions. When all three sessions had concluded, they reviewed the transcripts and discussed their insights further. In doi…
Theorizing health at every size as a relational–cultural endeavour
Mainstream dietetics buttresses a conventional weight management agenda that is associated with weight preoccupation, body dissatisfaction, size oppression, and troubled eating. Coterminous with this agenda is healthism, which taken together, impede dietitians’ engagement with a health at every size (HAES) paradigm, a paradigm driven by concern for equality. Yet, HAES has also been critiqued for having healthist tendencies. The purpose of this pa…
Community–university research partnerships
Community-university research partnerships (CURPs) are increasingly common, yet much of the existing research documents the experiences of individual projects or analyzes research methodologies associated with CURPs. Comparatively little is known about the role of university research centers in the design and implementation of CURPs. Even less is known about the role that interdisciplinarity (as a de facto characteristic of research centers) may …
Exposed social flesh
Recently, a small but growing literature has emerged investigating and outlining what a fat studies pedagogy might entail. Missing from much of this literature is a discussion about how the material body becomes a site through which “obesity” discourse is resisted or reproduced in the classroom. The authors attempt to fill this gap by focusing in particular on the educator’s body. They present the deepened understanding that results when three di…
You Have the Right to Remain Fat
Longing for Recognition
Longing for Recognition offers a radical new way of understanding nutritional health practices. In contemporary food culture, the work of dietitians has accrued new and urgent meaning, and Longing for Recognition is addressed to that group of practitioners. The author, herself a dietitian, crafts an autoethnographic fiction that presents a critical and thought-provoking argument for a more self-reflexive, relational, and embodied profession. Her …
Fat food justice
This special issue emerged from a sense of disconnection experienced by the members of the guest co-editorial team who seek to advance food justice as food studies scholars on one hand and fat liberation as fat studies scholars on the other. We assert that, despite their similarities and shared commitments to social and structural justice, there has been little cross-pollination between the fat studies and food studies communities. Fat studies sc…
Kitchen Table Pedagogy
The three of us (be)come together, yes on Zoom calls and in Google docs, and in a way that re-imagines the sitting together at a well-worn kitchen table to animate our current shared preoccupations. The table has seen many conversations before us, so it’s well-worn by feminist scholars who were also troubled, yearning, and adamant about leaving their marks. We have come to, become at, this type of table for centuries, sitting together preparing f…
Sociology (10 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)