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Negotiating identity and taking political action in the fat liberation movement

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Negotiating identity and taking political action in the fat liberation movement
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Rutgers University
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This dissertation used an interdisciplinary approach to examine facilitators and barriers of the Fat Liberation Movement (FLM). Drawing on scholarship related to identity, organizational identification, social movements, and public policy, this study examined four research questions about how issues of discourse, identity, political action, and internal routines impact the progress of the FLM. Through content, thematic, and frame analysis, the researcher analyzed 3 viral Facebook posts; 27 episodes of The Biggest Loser, My 600 lb. Life, and My Big Fat Fabulous Life; and 27 blog posts from the blogs The Militant Baker and Dances with Fat as well as the online magazine My Body is not an Apology. In addition, the researcher conducted 25 in-depth interviews with active members of the FLM. Findings from the study revealed three discursive tensions (unnatural/natural, fact/fiction, and acceptable/unacceptable) to illustrate the ways that fat rejection and fat acceptance discourse competed in interaction. The primary facilitators of the movement were: the use of fat acceptance discourse; identity; identification processes through virtual communities; political action efforts; and internal practices and strategies through the use of social media and blogs. The primary barriers of the movement were: the use of fat rejection discourse; the acceptance of intersectional identities; a lack of collective organization, and a decentralized leadership hierarchy. Through the examination of the FLM, rich data emerged to explain several actions movement members participate in through verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors including language (reclaiming the word “fat”), and physical activity (uninstitutionalized institutionalized political actions), adding to or taking away from movement’s progress. Additionally, frameworks around discourse, organization identification and political action have been extended to the context of a marginalized grassroots movement operating primarily online. Future directions for research seek to build on matters of identity and identification within the discipline of communication around organizational identification, membership negotiation, and discourse. Practical implications have also been given as recommendations to improve the actions of the movement and its members regarding communication, inclusion, and social movement practices.
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Communication, Information and Library Studies
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Fat-acceptance movement
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by Joy Cox
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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