Metabolism and movement: Calculating food and exercise or activating bodies in Dutch weight management

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Making sense with numbers. Unravelling ethico‐psychological subjects in practices of self‐quantification

“…However, such quantitative research into 'health behaviour', we argue with Cohn (2014), often loses track of the context in which 'what people do' has meaning for them. For prevention programs, for example, it makes a difference if people understand 'eating too much' as a celebration, as self-therapy, as 'too many calories' or as a routine (de Laet 2017, Vogel 2018). 1 In this paper we focus on the practice of using health apps in order to understand how selfquantification shapes selves, and how selves shape self-quantifications.…”

“…However, such quantitative research into ‘health behaviour’, we argue with Cohn (), often loses track of the context in which ‘what people do’ has meaning for them. For prevention programs, for example, it makes a difference if people understand ‘eating too much’ as a celebration, as self‐therapy, as ‘too many calories’ or as a routine (de Laet , Vogel )…”

Experimenting with Ethnography

“…Those lit er a tures may not be about excretion, but for all that they may still add depth to a treatise on "contrasting as an analytic technique. " In our lit er a ture list you will find a few titles in which this technique has been deployed for analyzing materials closely related to excreting: washing (Pols 2006), tasting (Mann 2018), eating (Yates-Doerr and Mol 2012), cooking (Ibáñez Martín and de Laet 2018), metabolizing (Vogel 2018), composting (Abrahamsson and Bertoni 2014). Others talk about sites and situations, about topics, that may seem to be further away: human disabilities (Moser 2005), animal diseases (Mather 2014), spirits ( Jensen and Blok 2013), words (Mann and Mol 2018), the world (Law 2015;Omura et al 2019).…”