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Professor John Evans

Honorary Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences

Publications

Books (3)
Book Chapters (10)
Journal Articles (13)
Conference Papers (16)
Conference Item (1)

Books

Evans, John, Rich, Emma, Davies, Brian and Allwood, Rachel (2008). Education, obesity and eating disorders: Fat fabrications. Abingdon, England: Routledge.
Fitz, John, Davies, Brian and Evans, John (2005). Educational policy and social reproduction: Class inscription and symbolic control. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Wright, J. (2004). Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2009). Performative Health in Schools: Welfare Policy, Neoliberalism and Social Regulation. Biopolitics and the 'obesity epidemic': Governing bodies. (pp. 157-171) edited by Jan Wright and Valerie Harwood. New York, USA: Routledge.
Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2008). Learning to be healthy, dying to be thin: The representation of weight via body perfection codes in schools. Critical bodies: Representations, identities and practices of weight and body management. (pp. 60-77) edited by Sarah Riley, Maree Burns, Hannah Frith, Sally Wiggins and Pirkko Markula. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
Evans, John, Rich, Emma, Allwood, Rachel and Davies, Brian (2007). Being 'able' in a performative culture: Physical education's contribution to a healthy interest in sport?. Rethinking gender and youth sport. (pp. 51-67) edited by Ian Wellard. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2006). The sociology of physical education. The handbook of physical education. (pp. 109-122) edited by David Kirk, Doune Macdonald and Mary O'Sullivan. London, U.K.: Sage.
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2006). Social class and physical education. Handbook of physical education. (pp. 796-808) edited by David Kirk, Doune MacDonald and Mary O'Sullivan. London, U.K.: Sage Publications.
Penney, Dawn and Evans, John (2005). Policy, power and politics in physical education. Physical education: Essential issues. (pp. 21-38) edited by Ken Green and Ken Hardman. London, U.K.: SAGE Publications.
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2004). Endnote: The embodiment of consciousness: Bernstein, health and schooling. Body knowledge and control: Studies in the sociology of physical education and health. (pp. 207-217) edited by John Evans, Brian Davies and Jan Wright. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2004). Pedagogy, symbolic control, identity and health. Body knowledge and control: Studies in the sociology of physical education and health. (pp. 3-18) edited by John Evans, Brian Davies and Jan Wright. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Rich, Emma, Holroyd, Rachel and Evans, John (2004). 'Hungry to be noticed': Young women, anorexia and schooling. Body knowledge and control: Studies in the sociology of physical education. (pp. 173-190) edited by John Evans, Brian Davies and Jan Wright. London, U.K.: Routledge.
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2004). Sociology, the body and health in a risk society. Body knowledge and control: Studies in the sociology of physical education and health. (pp. 35-51) edited by John Evans, Brian Davies and Jan Wright. London, U.K.: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Evans, John, Davies, Brian and Rich, Emma (2008). The class and cultural functions of obesity discourse: our latter day child saving movement. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 18 (2), 117-132. doi: 10.1080/09620210802351367
Evans, John, Rich, Emma, Allwood, Rachel and Davies, Brian (2008). Body pedagogies, P/policy, health and gender. British Educational Research Journal, 34 (3), 387-402. doi: 10.1080/01411920802042812
Evans, John and Penney, Dawn (2008). Levels on the playing field: The social construction of physical 'ability' in the physical education curriculum. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 13 (1), 31-47. doi: 10.1080/17408980701345576
Evans, John and Davies, Brian (2008). The poverty of theory: Class configurations in the discourse of physical education and health (PEH). Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 13 (2), 199-213. doi: 10.1080/17408980701852571
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Davies, B. (2008). Health education or weight management in schools?. Physical Education Matters, 3 (1), 28-33.
Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2007). Re-reading voice: Young women, anorexia and performative education. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 9, 39-54.
Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2005). Making sense of eating disorders in schools. Discourse, Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 26 (2), 247-262. doi: 10.1080/01596300500143211
Evans, John, Rich, Emma, Davies, Brian and Allwood, Rachel (2005). The embodiment of learning: What the sociology of education doesn't say about 'risk' in going to school. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 15 (2), 129-148. doi: 10.1080/09620210500200136
Evans, John, Rich, Emma and Davies, Brian (2004). The emperor’s new clothes: Fat, thin, and overweight. The social fabrication of risk and ill health. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 23 (4), 372-391.
Evans, John, Rich, Emma and Holroyd, Rachel (2004). Disordered eating and disordered schooling: What schools do to middle class girls. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2), 123-142. doi: 10.1080/0142569042000205154
Evans, John (2004). Making a difference? Education and 'ability' in physical education. European Physical Education Review, 10 (1), 95-108. doi: 10.1177/1356336X04042158
Evans, John, Evans, Bethan and Rich, Emma (2003). ‘The only problem is, children will like their chips’: Education and the discursive production of ill-health. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 11 (2), 215-240. doi: 10.1080/14681360300200168
Evans, John (2003). Physical education and health: A polemic or 'Let them eat cake!'. European Physical Education Review, 9 (1), 87-101. doi: 10.1177/1356336X03009001182

Conference Papers

Evans, John, Davies, Brian and Rich, Emma (2008). Bernstein, body pedagogies and the corporeal device. Fifth Basil Bernstein Symposium, Cardiff, Wales, 9-12 July 2008.
Evans, John, Rich, Emma and Davies, Brian (2008). The Rise and Rise of the Child Saving Movement. Resisting Class and Cultural Rehabilitation?. AARE 2007 International Educational Research Conference, Freemantle, Australia, 25-29 November 2007. Coldstream, Vic: Australian Association for Research in Education.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Allwood, R. (2007). Health education or weight management in schools. Physical Education and Obesity Conference, Daventry, England, April, 2007.
Rich, Emma, Evans, John and Allwood, Rachel (2007). Young women and performative health pedagogies: Now I am (No)body, see me for who I am. The Bera Annual Conference 2007, London, UK, 5-8 September, 2007.
Rich, E. and Evans, J. (2007). Body pedagogies and voice in totally pedagogised schools. Biopedagogies Conference, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 25-29 January, 2007.
Rich, Emma, Harjunen, Hannele and Evans, John (2006). 'Normal gone bad': Health discourses, schools and the female body. Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease. 3rd Global Conference 2004, Oxford, U.K., 5-9 July 2004. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Editions Rodopi.
Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2006). 'Fat Ethics': Exploring the Negative Implications of 'Anti-Obesity' Discourse. Expanding the Obesity Debate, University of Limerick, Ireland, 9 January, 2006.
Penney, Dawn, Evans, John and Taggart, Joanne (2006). Educational codes and inclusivity in Physical Education.. Australian Association of Research in Education Conference 2004, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 27 November - 1 December, 2005.
Evans, John, Rich, Emma, Davies, Brian and Allwood, Rachel (2005). The embodiment of learning: What the sociology of education doesn't say about 'risk' in going to school. International Sociology of Education Conference: Teaching and Learning in Changing Times, London University, London, January, 2005. London, United Kingdom: Sociology Of Education.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and Allwood, R. (2005). Healthism and schools. Weighty issues: Representation, Identity and Practice in the areas of Eating Disorders, Obesity and Body Management, Bristol University of West of England, 2005. Bristol, England: Bristol University of West of England.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and Allwood, R. (2005). Problematising Perfection and Performance in Education: learning from young women with eating disorders. British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, Pontypridd, Wales, 14–17 September, 2005.
Rich, E. and Evans, J. (2004). No Emotion or Desire? Understanding Equality and Inclusion in Physical Education and Sport?. British Educational Research Association Conference, The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, 16-18 September 2004.
Evans, J. and Rich, E. (2004). Gifted...gone wrong: The social fabrication of 'deviancy' and ill-health. Critical Perspectives on Obesity, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July, 2004.
Penney, D. and Evans, J. (2004). Levels on the playing field: Ability and inclusion in level frameworks in health and physical education. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 28 November- 2 December, 2004. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: AARE The Association for Active Educational Researchers.
Evans, John (2003). Making a difference? Education and 'ability' in physical education. NZARE AARE Conference 2003 : Educational Research, Risks, & Dilemmas, Hyatt Regency Hotel University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November - 3 December, 2003. Auckland, New Zealand: Australian Association for Educational Research.
Rich, Emma and Evans, John (2002). Disordered Eating Or Disordered Education? Refocusing the Analysis of Gender, Eating Disorders and Education. Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, University of Exeter, England, 11-13 September 2002. x: Education-line internet document collection.

Conference Item

Rich, E., Evans, J. and Allwood, R. (2005). The obesity discourse, Physical Education and Sport. British Sociological Association Day Conference, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 2005.