Table of contents

A fictional introduction: when disciplines cross paths with eaters

Part 1. Measuring eaters’ practices and representations

Chapter 1. Individual food consumption measurement: methods tailored to objectives

Chapter 2. Measuring individual and household food security: potential and challenges in nutritional and social science collaboration

Chapter 3. Impact assessment on nutritional health prevention and promotion initiatives

Chapter 4. Experimental economics: highlighting the preferences and factors influencing people’s decision making

Chapter 5. Subjective food wellbeing assessment: how eaters rate their food

Part 2. Tracking eaters and foods

Chapter 6. Ethnoaccounting: monitoring, counting and understanding what eaters value

Chapter 7. Photovoice: a participatory method to explore food environments from inhabitants’ viewpoint

Chapter 8. Quantified narratives: a research method that combines interviews and statistical analysis of biographical dynamics

Chapter 9. Auto/biography: a comprehensive approach for accessing eaters’ subjectivity

Chapter 10. ‘Follow-the-thing’: tracing food products to chronicle their sociospatial biography

Chapter 11. Sociological surveys of young eaters: methodological and epistemological issues

Part 3. Understanding and assessing the social construction of the food and eating fact

Chapter 12. The URBAL participatory method: collectively documenting sustainable food innovation impact pathways

Chapter 13. Action research: an analysis and social transformation process to enhance access to sustainable food

Chapter 14. Theatre workshops: accounting for food-sensitive experience

Chapter 15. Focus groups: studying food and eating through thematic discussion

List of authors