Cat Pausé
Biographic Data
| ID | 72891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cat Pausé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cat |
| FAMILY NAME | Pausé |
| SIGNATURE | PAUSÉ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1812-6632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Adipositivity Project: The first fifteen years
This article presents The Adipositivity Project, a photo-activism project focused on creating visual resistance to fat oppression. For fifteen years and across three continents, Substantia Jones has captured people of various races, gender presentations, and physical abilities, each displaying as much of their bodies as they feel comfortable. The project rejects anti-fat attitudes, fatpocalyse rhetoric, and diet culture, instead providing a visua…
Obesogene Umwelt
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against Covid-19: Findings from a international online exploratory survey
This short report presents the findings of an online survey of self-identified fat people in eight countries identified as having guidelines for the use of long needles in SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes. The survey captures fat people’s understanding of the need for, and knowledge about the use of, a long needle when being vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings identified a knowledge gap amongst fat people about…
Fat Studies: Entrevista com Cat Pausé
Caitlin Clare Pausé - Cat Pausé - foi especialista na área dos Fat Studies, professora da Massey University (Nova Zelândia) e diretora do Centro de Libertação das Pessoas Gordas. Coeditou The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies (PAUSÉ; TAYLOR, 2021) e coordenaria a próxima conferência Fat Studies: Rights, Personhood, Disposability que ocorrerá online em julho de 2022. Sua pesquisa está focada nos efeitos do estigma da gordura na saúde…
Batuka: A Fat Studies Primer
This article presents an overview of the hallmark characteristics of four kinds of scholarship on and about fat and fatness, allowing the reader to recognise the areas in which they overlap and in which they differ. It explores the history of Fat Studies as an academic discipline and considers the challenges and opportunities going forward. It concludes with a demonstration that the field of Fat Studies scholarship is that most appropriate for th…
Resisting the problematisation of fatness in Covid-19: In pursuit of health justice
The purpose of this paper is to explore the problematisation of fatness in contemporary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper draws from the catalogue of reports from journalists informed largely by an array of non-peer reviewed scientific literature documenting the relationship between fatness and COVID-19. Our method of enquiry is to examine fatness and COVID-19 through a problematisation lens that enables us to interrogate the scienti…
Weight and the law in New Zealand
Fat people face discrimination in employment, housing, educational, and healthcare settings; they are vulnerable to the bias and prejudice held against fat people. Yet few places in the world legislate that weight (or physical size) is a protected category under the law. This manuscript reviews the law in New Zealand and considers the options available to fat people in New Zealand who believe they have experienced discrimination because of their …
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Ray of Light: Standpoint Theory, Fat Studies, and a New Fat Ethics
Fat people sharing their stories is one of the key ways to disrupt the normative discourse of the “obesity epidemic.” Autoethnography has become a popular way for fat scholars in the field of fat studies to tell their stories and challenge dominant narratives of fat people and their lived experiences. However, without recognizing the privileges and locations in which an individual stands, they risk reproducing other forms of oppression such as wh…
Nothing about us without us’: Fat people speak
The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people. In this piece, four fat activists review the role that social science could play in the science of fatness, highlighting key considerations for scholars to keep at the front of their mind if they want to be allies to fat people in this scholarship. We propose a range of qualitative research questions that are ripe for scient…
Frozen: A fat tale of immigration
Fat people are constructed as failed citizens; they are believed to be a burden on society, consuming too many resources and costing too many healthcare monies. In modern neoliberal contexts, this results in hostile environments and the development of spoiled identities (stigmatized identities in which the bearer is held responsible for the stigma). These hostile environments are demonstrated in many ways: governments failing to designate weight …
Productive but not constructive: The work of shame in the affective governance of fat Pregnancy
The productivity of shame as an affective-discursive practice implicated in the neoliberal governance of “healthy pregnancy” is examined in the narratives of 27 ethnically diverse, cis-gendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Shame is identified as a dominant affective-discursive practice produced in response to the problematising medical discourses surrounding the fat pregnant body, leading to the constitution of sh…
Pregnant with possibility: Negotiating fat maternal subjectivity in the “War on Obesity”
The embodied temporality of fat pregnancy in the mist of the “obesity epidemic” is explored through interviews with 27 ethnically diverse, cisgendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. The interaction of pre-emptive biopolitics and pregnant maternal responsibilities encouraged the fat pregnant people in this study to set aside their embodied knowing and enjoyment of pregnancy to focus on strategies that could protect t…
I'm Just a Woman Having a Baby”: Negotiating and Resisting the Problematization of Pregnancy Fatness
This article explores how fat pregnant people construct successful narratives around their pregnancies and birthing. Fat pregnant people are a critical site for the war on fatness; viewed as irresponsible: threatening the health of their pregnancy, and the far-off future of their child. Contemporary knowledge about pregnancy fatness is imbued with longstanding and powerful gendered biomedical discourses that have served to script women’s reproduc…
Exploring the threats to sociable scholarship: An autoethnographic viewing of participatory news making
Sociable scholarship is the activity of engaging in, and disseminating academic thinking through social media as part of a commitment to be held accountable by the communities a scholar serves. Doing so has both benefits, such as increasing the people impacted by an article, and drawbacks, like ad hominem attacks. In this piece, we use collaborative autoethnography to explore common threats to sociable scholarship. We are activist scholars who ar…
Hung Up: Queering Fat Therapy
The pathologization of fat bodies, and the anti-fat attitudes that are (re)introduced and (re)enforced through such pathologies, present a barrier in the relationship between therapist and fat client. Previous literature confirms that therapists are more likely to predict negative prognoses for fat clients than for thin ones and to make generalized assumptions about fat clients. These anti-fat attitudes interfere with fat clients receiving bias-f…
Enlarging conference learning: At the crossroads of fat studies and conference pedagogies
This article stages an encounter between the field of fat studies and conference pedagogy scholarship. After laying the foundations for a reading of academic conferences as learning spaces, the authors present two examples—International Fat Studies Conferences held in Aotearoa, New Zealand, in 2012 and 2016—to unpack these ideas. The framing of fat studies conferences as pedagogical spaces sparks questions that travel in multiple directions. It c…
X-Static Process: Intersectionality Within the Field of Fat Studies
From Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theoretical use to Flavia Dzodan’s more recent declaration—the issue of intersectionality is acknowledged within feminist circles as an important tenant of scholarship, pedagogy, and activism. In this introduction to a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, I explore intersectionality within the field of fat studies, as well as the themes addressed by the issue contributors.…
Queering fat embodiment
Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat
Fat individuals live in a fat phobic world. Individuals with a fat identity engage in identity management to negotiate the stigma surrounding fatness. Goffman proposed three forms of identity management: passing, covering, and withdrawing. More recently, scholars have proposed a fourth form of identity management: coming out. In this paper, I consider the usefulness of the four styles in managing the stigmatised identity of fatness. Special consi…
We Say What we are and We do What We Say: Feminisms in Educational Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand
From four countries (Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States of America) and five disciplines (Counselling & Guidance, Adult Education, Early Years Education, Indigenous Education and Human Development), five feminists in academia come together to share how feminism affects their practice. Ranging in reflections on teaching, research, service and scholarship, this article describes a cooperative enquiry into feminism in action in Aotea…
Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat
Fat individuals live in a fat phobic world. Individuals with a fat identity engage in identity management to negotiate the stigma surrounding fatness. Goffman proposed three forms of identity management: passing, covering, and withdrawing. More recently, scholars have proposed a fourth form of identity management: coming out. In this paper, I consider the usefulness of the four styles in managing the stigmatised identity of fatness. Special consi…
Productive but not constructive: The work of shame in the affective governance of fat Pregnancy
The productivity of shame as an affective-discursive practice implicated in the neoliberal governance of “healthy pregnancy” is examined in the narratives of 27 ethnically diverse, cis-gendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Shame is identified as a dominant affective-discursive practice produced in response to the problematising medical discourses surrounding the fat pregnant body, leading to the constitution of sh…
Nothing about us without us’: Fat people speak
The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people. In this piece, four fat activists review the role that social science could play in the science of fatness, highlighting key considerations for scholars to keep at the front of their mind if they want to be allies to fat people in this scholarship. We propose a range of qualitative research questions that are ripe for scient…
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Hung Up: Queering Fat Therapy
The pathologization of fat bodies, and the anti-fat attitudes that are (re)introduced and (re)enforced through such pathologies, present a barrier in the relationship between therapist and fat client. Previous literature confirms that therapists are more likely to predict negative prognoses for fat clients than for thin ones and to make generalized assumptions about fat clients. These anti-fat attitudes interfere with fat clients receiving bias-f…
I'm Just a Woman Having a Baby”: Negotiating and Resisting the Problematization of Pregnancy Fatness
This article explores how fat pregnant people construct successful narratives around their pregnancies and birthing. Fat pregnant people are a critical site for the war on fatness; viewed as irresponsible: threatening the health of their pregnancy, and the far-off future of their child. Contemporary knowledge about pregnancy fatness is imbued with longstanding and powerful gendered biomedical discourses that have served to script women’s reproduc…
Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat
Fat individuals live in a fat phobic world. Individuals with a fat identity engage in identity management to negotiate the stigma surrounding fatness. Goffman proposed three forms of identity management: passing, covering, and withdrawing. More recently, scholars have proposed a fourth form of identity management: coming out. In this paper, I consider the usefulness of the four styles in managing the stigmatised identity of fatness. Special consi…
We Say What we are and We do What We Say: Feminisms in Educational Practice in Aotearoa New Zealand
From four countries (Canada, England, New Zealand and the United States of America) and five disciplines (Counselling & Guidance, Adult Education, Early Years Education, Indigenous Education and Human Development), five feminists in academia come together to share how feminism affects their practice. Ranging in reflections on teaching, research, service and scholarship, this article describes a cooperative enquiry into feminism in action in Aotea…
X-Static Process: Intersectionality Within the Field of Fat Studies
From Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theoretical use to Flavia Dzodan’s more recent declaration—the issue of intersectionality is acknowledged within feminist circles as an important tenant of scholarship, pedagogy, and activism. In this introduction to a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, I explore intersectionality within the field of fat studies, as well as the themes addressed by the issue contributors.…
Queering fat embodiment
Pregnant with possibility: Negotiating fat maternal subjectivity in the “War on Obesity”
The embodied temporality of fat pregnancy in the mist of the “obesity epidemic” is explored through interviews with 27 ethnically diverse, cisgendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. The interaction of pre-emptive biopolitics and pregnant maternal responsibilities encouraged the fat pregnant people in this study to set aside their embodied knowing and enjoyment of pregnancy to focus on strategies that could protect t…
I'm Just a Woman Having a Baby”: Negotiating and Resisting the Problematization of Pregnancy Fatness
This article explores how fat pregnant people construct successful narratives around their pregnancies and birthing. Fat pregnant people are a critical site for the war on fatness; viewed as irresponsible: threatening the health of their pregnancy, and the far-off future of their child. Contemporary knowledge about pregnancy fatness is imbued with longstanding and powerful gendered biomedical discourses that have served to script women’s reproduc…
Exploring the threats to sociable scholarship: An autoethnographic viewing of participatory news making
Sociable scholarship is the activity of engaging in, and disseminating academic thinking through social media as part of a commitment to be held accountable by the communities a scholar serves. Doing so has both benefits, such as increasing the people impacted by an article, and drawbacks, like ad hominem attacks. In this piece, we use collaborative autoethnography to explore common threats to sociable scholarship. We are activist scholars who ar…
Hung Up: Queering Fat Therapy
The pathologization of fat bodies, and the anti-fat attitudes that are (re)introduced and (re)enforced through such pathologies, present a barrier in the relationship between therapist and fat client. Previous literature confirms that therapists are more likely to predict negative prognoses for fat clients than for thin ones and to make generalized assumptions about fat clients. These anti-fat attitudes interfere with fat clients receiving bias-f…
Enlarging conference learning: At the crossroads of fat studies and conference pedagogies
This article stages an encounter between the field of fat studies and conference pedagogy scholarship. After laying the foundations for a reading of academic conferences as learning spaces, the authors present two examples—International Fat Studies Conferences held in Aotearoa, New Zealand, in 2012 and 2016—to unpack these ideas. The framing of fat studies conferences as pedagogical spaces sparks questions that travel in multiple directions. It c…
Frozen: A fat tale of immigration
Fat people are constructed as failed citizens; they are believed to be a burden on society, consuming too many resources and costing too many healthcare monies. In modern neoliberal contexts, this results in hostile environments and the development of spoiled identities (stigmatized identities in which the bearer is held responsible for the stigma). These hostile environments are demonstrated in many ways: governments failing to designate weight …
Productive but not constructive: The work of shame in the affective governance of fat Pregnancy
The productivity of shame as an affective-discursive practice implicated in the neoliberal governance of “healthy pregnancy” is examined in the narratives of 27 ethnically diverse, cis-gendered, self-identified fat pregnant people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Shame is identified as a dominant affective-discursive practice produced in response to the problematising medical discourses surrounding the fat pregnant body, leading to the constitution of sh…
Ray of Light: Standpoint Theory, Fat Studies, and a New Fat Ethics
Fat people sharing their stories is one of the key ways to disrupt the normative discourse of the “obesity epidemic.” Autoethnography has become a popular way for fat scholars in the field of fat studies to tell their stories and challenge dominant narratives of fat people and their lived experiences. However, without recognizing the privileges and locations in which an individual stands, they risk reproducing other forms of oppression such as wh…
Nothing about us without us’: Fat people speak
The production of knowledge within the social sciences has contributed both to the oppression and liberation of fat people. In this piece, four fat activists review the role that social science could play in the science of fatness, highlighting key considerations for scholars to keep at the front of their mind if they want to be allies to fat people in this scholarship. We propose a range of qualitative research questions that are ripe for scient…
Resisting the problematisation of fatness in Covid-19: In pursuit of health justice
The purpose of this paper is to explore the problematisation of fatness in contemporary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper draws from the catalogue of reports from journalists informed largely by an array of non-peer reviewed scientific literature documenting the relationship between fatness and COVID-19. Our method of enquiry is to examine fatness and COVID-19 through a problematisation lens that enables us to interrogate the scienti…
Weight and the law in New Zealand
Fat people face discrimination in employment, housing, educational, and healthcare settings; they are vulnerable to the bias and prejudice held against fat people. Yet few places in the world legislate that weight (or physical size) is a protected category under the law. This manuscript reviews the law in New Zealand and considers the options available to fat people in New Zealand who believe they have experienced discrimination because of their …
Kōrero Mōmona, Kōrero ā-Hauora: A Kaupapa Māori and fat studies discussion of fatness, health and healthism
This paper explores dual understandings of fatness and health from Kaupapa Māori and Fat Studies perspectives. Fatness for Indigenous peoples can be complex and an entanglement of multiple oppressions. Often Māori understandings of bodies and fatness that reflect whakapapa (genealogy, ancestry, layering of those we come from) and culture are excluded from health contexts and discourses. Understanding fatness and health from a Kaupapa Māori perspe…
Obesogene Umwelt
Self-identified fat people’s understanding of the need for, and use of, long needles when being vaccinated against Covid-19: Findings from a international online exploratory survey
This short report presents the findings of an online survey of self-identified fat people in eight countries identified as having guidelines for the use of long needles in SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes. The survey captures fat people’s understanding of the need for, and knowledge about the use of, a long needle when being vaccinated against COVID-19. Our findings identified a knowledge gap amongst fat people about…
Fat Studies: Entrevista com Cat Pausé
Caitlin Clare Pausé - Cat Pausé - foi especialista na área dos Fat Studies, professora da Massey University (Nova Zelândia) e diretora do Centro de Libertação das Pessoas Gordas. Coeditou The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies (PAUSÉ; TAYLOR, 2021) e coordenaria a próxima conferência Fat Studies: Rights, Personhood, Disposability que ocorrerá online em julho de 2022. Sua pesquisa está focada nos efeitos do estigma da gordura na saúde…
Batuka: A Fat Studies Primer
This article presents an overview of the hallmark characteristics of four kinds of scholarship on and about fat and fatness, allowing the reader to recognise the areas in which they overlap and in which they differ. It explores the history of Fat Studies as an academic discipline and considers the challenges and opportunities going forward. It concludes with a demonstration that the field of Fat Studies scholarship is that most appropriate for th…
The Adipositivity Project: The first fifteen years
This article presents The Adipositivity Project, a photo-activism project focused on creating visual resistance to fat oppression. For fifteen years and across three continents, Substantia Jones has captured people of various races, gender presentations, and physical abilities, each displaying as much of their bodies as they feel comfortable. The project rejects anti-fat attitudes, fatpocalyse rhetoric, and diet culture, instead providing a visua…
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