Publications Library
A collection of recent publications and research outputs from network members exploring eating, metabolism, sensory science, and bodily practices.
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Ordering tasting in a restaurant: experiencing, socializing, and processing food
An ethnographic exploration of how tasting is ordered and experienced in restaurant settings, examining the interplay between sensory experience, social interaction, and food processing.
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Sensory science research on taste. An ethnography of two laboratory experiments in Western Europe
An ethnographic study of sensory science laboratories, investigating how taste is measured, standardized, and understood through experimental practices in Western European research settings.
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Metabolism and Movement: Calculating Food and Exercise or Activating Bodies in Dutch Weight Management
An analysis of weight-management practices in the Netherlands, contrasting calculative approaches to food and exercise with approaches that seek to activate and engage bodies differently.
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Operating (on) the self: transforming agency through obesity surgery and treatment
An inquiry into how obesity surgery and related treatments reshape personal agency, examining the transformations of self that accompany surgical intervention and post-operative care.
The library brings together recent publications from network members whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries to examine eating as a practice entangled with metabolism, sensory science, and bodily transformations. These texts attend to the ordering of taste in restaurants, the staging of laboratory experiments in sensory science, and the ways bodies are measured, managed, and remade through technologies of weight, exercise, and surgery. Water, waste, and the fluid exchanges between human and nonhuman bodies recur as themes, as do questions of what it means to value care amid extractivist pressures. The collection serves as a growing resource for those studying how eating shapes and is shaped by social, material, and ecological relations.