Jacqui Gingras
Nutrition and Dietetics
Acadia University
Canada
Biography
Jacqui Gingras, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. Her research involves theoretical and experiential explorations of health epistemology. She has a particular interest in how health profession students’ and professional’s subjectivities are constituted by power and discourse to inform advocacy, policy, and pedagogy. Her research engages feminist autoethnographic, narrative, and arts-informed methods as a means for situated and particular understandings of health theory, education, and practice.
Research Interest
Research Interests: Social health movements; Health activism; Healthism; Weight stigma; Sociology of work/health professions
Publications
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2017 Gingras, J., Asada, Y., Brady, J., & Aphramor, L. (2017). Critical dietetics: Challenging the profession from within. In M. Koc, J. Sumner, & A. Winson (Eds.). Critical perspectives in food studies (2nd Ed.) (pp. 95-107). New York: Oxford University Press.
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2017 MacPhail, D., Brady, J., & Gingras, J. Exposed social flesh: Towards an embodied fat pedagogy. Fat Studies Journal, 6(1), 17-37.
