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Dr Michael Crawley's Outputs (8)

‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities (2022)
Journal Article
Crawley, M. (2022). ‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities. Ethnos, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2022.2120516

This article describes how energy, and the ‘condition’ of the runner, achieved through the successful management of energy, is understood as trans-bodily and social by Ethiopian long-distance runners. The way energy flows between people and the envir... Read More about ‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities.

Laboring bodies and the quantified self (2022)
Journal Article
Crawley, M. (2022). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. New Genetics and Society, 41(1), 66-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2022.2029694

How has the laboring body become so central to regimes of quantification and measurement, and how has this played out in literary and cultural representations of the quantified self? Through tracing narratives of entanglement of data and selves that... Read More about Laboring bodies and the quantified self.

Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners (2021)
Journal Article
Crawley, M. (2021). Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(3), 653-671. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13556

GPS watches and digital self-tracking devices (DSTDs) have been characterized as ‘self-tracking’ devices, assuming a dyadic relationship between individuals and technologies. Amongst Ethiopian professional runners, such devices have become increasing... Read More about Tracking selves or tracking relationships? Means of measuring time amongst Ethiopian runners.