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41	Ignoring a Silent Killer: Obesity & Food Security in the Caribbean (Case Study: Barbados) MacDonald, Tara 05 September 2012 (has links) Obesity and obesity-related diseases – such as type 2 diabetes – have become the most crucial indicators of population health in the 21st century. Formerly understood as ‘diseases of affluence’, obesity is now prevalent in the Global South posing serious risk to socioeconomic development. This is particularly true for rapidly developing countries where nutrition transitions are most apparent. There are many factors which impact on risk of obesity (e.g. gender, culture, environment, socioeconomic status, biological determinants). The problem is further aggravated within small island developing states where food security is exacerbated by factors associated with globalization and development. The thesis examines the surge of obesity and type 2 diabetes within Caribbean populations, using Barbados as a case study. A holistic approach was applied using an ecological health model. Moving away from the lifestyle model, the theoretical framework underpinning included sub-theories (e.g. social constructivism, feminism, post-colonial theory, concepts of memory and trauma). Obesity Diabetes Nutrition Gender Health Epidemic Food Food Security Food Insecurity Nutrition Security Nutrition Insecurity Chronic Non Communicable Diseases Non Communicable Diseases Overweight NCD CNCD Caribbean Barbados Afro-Caribbean Nutrition Transition Post Colonial Slavery Agriculture Import Food Import Tara MacDonald Garden Based Learning GBL Millennium Development Goals MDGs Diseases of Affluence Type 2 Diabetes
42	Ignoring a Silent Killer: Obesity & Food Security in the Caribbean (Case Study: Barbados) MacDonald, Tara 05 September 2012 (has links) Obesity and obesity-related diseases – such as type 2 diabetes – have become the most crucial indicators of population health in the 21st century. Formerly understood as ‘diseases of affluence’, obesity is now prevalent in the Global South posing serious risk to socioeconomic development. This is particularly true for rapidly developing countries where nutrition transitions are most apparent. There are many factors which impact on risk of obesity (e.g. gender, culture, environment, socioeconomic status, biological determinants). The problem is further aggravated within small island developing states where food security is exacerbated by factors associated with globalization and development. The thesis examines the surge of obesity and type 2 diabetes within Caribbean populations, using Barbados as a case study. A holistic approach was applied using an ecological health model. Moving away from the lifestyle model, the theoretical framework underpinning included sub-theories (e.g. social constructivism, feminism, post-colonial theory, concepts of memory and trauma). Obesity Diabetes Nutrition Gender Health Epidemic Food Food Security Food Insecurity Nutrition Security Nutrition Insecurity Chronic Non Communicable Diseases Non Communicable Diseases Overweight NCD CNCD Caribbean Barbados Afro-Caribbean Nutrition Transition Post Colonial Slavery Agriculture Import Food Import Tara MacDonald Garden Based Learning GBL Millennium Development Goals MDGs Diseases of Affluence Type 2 Diabetes
43	Ignoring a Silent Killer: Obesity & Food Security in the Caribbean (Case Study: Barbados) MacDonald, Tara January 2012 (has links) Obesity and obesity-related diseases – such as type 2 diabetes – have become the most crucial indicators of population health in the 21st century. Formerly understood as ‘diseases of affluence’, obesity is now prevalent in the Global South posing serious risk to socioeconomic development. This is particularly true for rapidly developing countries where nutrition transitions are most apparent. There are many factors which impact on risk of obesity (e.g. gender, culture, environment, socioeconomic status, biological determinants). The problem is further aggravated within small island developing states where food security is exacerbated by factors associated with globalization and development. The thesis examines the surge of obesity and type 2 diabetes within Caribbean populations, using Barbados as a case study. A holistic approach was applied using an ecological health model. Moving away from the lifestyle model, the theoretical framework underpinning included sub-theories (e.g. social constructivism, feminism, post-colonial theory, concepts of memory and trauma). Obesity Diabetes Nutrition Gender Health Epidemic Food Food Security Food Insecurity Nutrition Security Nutrition Insecurity Chronic Non Communicable Diseases Non Communicable Diseases Overweight NCD CNCD Caribbean Barbados Afro-Caribbean Nutrition Transition Post Colonial Slavery Agriculture Import Food Import Tara MacDonald Garden Based Learning GBL Millennium Development Goals MDGs Diseases of Affluence Type 2 Diabetes
44	Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration Tressler, Gretchen E. 03 June 2011 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean literature, usually when a character chooses to celebrate and emphasize her/his freedom from the physical, emotional, and societal constraints that normally keep the body in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often emerges in chorus with aesthetic bodily movement and analyzes the symbolic force and political significance of Caribbean dance--both celebratory (as in Carnival) and defensive (as in warrior dances). Furthermore, this study observes how the weight of Western views on dance influences Caribbean transmutations and translations of cultural behavior, ritual acts, and spontaneous movement. The novels studied include Samuel Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), Earl Lovelace's "The Dragon Can't Dance" (1979), Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" (1983), and Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable" (2006). Caribbean Literature Anglophone Dance Identity Culture Community Ritual Performance Political consciousness Postcolonial Carnival Ekphrasis Afro-Caribbean Earl Lovelace Paule Marshall Marie-Elena John Samuel Selvon Selvon, Samuel. -- Lonely Londoners John, Marie-Elena. -- Unburnable
45	Dementure Burgess, Rachel January 2010 (has links) No description available. African Americans African American Studies American History American Literature American Studies Black Studies Caribbean Literature Caribbean Studies Ethnic Studies Gender Gender Studies Literature Modern Literature Womens Studies Decolonization historical disenfranchisement racism colonialism cultural practices cultural criticism intergenerational poverty education immigration Afro-Caribbean Diaspora labor work American Dream Mall of America Creative Nonfiction

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