Module 6: Cripping Health Promotion

The optional resources below offer additional case studies that examine how health promotion is shaped by structural forces, including colonialism, climate change, and racialized and ableist norms.

Health Promotion: Climate Change and Indigenous Health

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Time: 54 minutes, 1 second

Take some time to engage with the following podcast that discusses how structural forces and climate change reshape Indigenous relationships to the land and health:

Health Promotion: Racialization, Fatphobia, and Resistance

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Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019), traces fatphobia from the transatlantic slave trade to the ways in which Black people are still dealing with the consequences today.

Sabrina StringsTime: 15 minutes

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