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Title
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From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity
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Creator
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Krieger, Nancy
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Date
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2021
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Subject
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health
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embodiment
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injustice
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social determinants
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equity
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Identifier
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doi:10.1093/oso/9780197510728.003.0001
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isbn:0197510728
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Is Part Of
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Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health
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Publisher
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Oxford University PressNew York
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Abstract
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Abstract
Chapter 1 explains ecosocial theory, its origins, and its focus on multilevel spatiotemporal processes of embodying (in)justice, across the lifecourse and historical generations, as shaped by the political economy and political ecology of the societies in which people live. The counter is to dominant narratives that attribute primary causal agency to people’s allegedly innate biology and their allegedly individual (and decontextualized) health behaviors, and also to misleading narratives of “gene-environment interaction.” The step-by-step explication of ecosocial constructs includes: processes and pathways of embodiment, including embodying (in)justice; the cumulative interplay of exposure, susceptibility, and resistance and agency and accountability, together within and across levels, lifecourse, and historical generation; levels, pathways, and power; structured chance; and emergent embodied phenotypes. Also discussed is the relationship of ecosocial theory to “intersectionality” and ecosocial analysis of biological expressions of injustice versus unjust interpretations of biology (especially in relation to racism and gender).
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Bibliographic Citation
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Krieger, Nancy. (2021). 'From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity'. Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health, pp. 1-C1.F1.
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Extent
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pp. 1-C1.F1
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Type
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book-chapter
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Kaanu ID
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kb001651