Studying health and cycling: Working with emergent data

This chapter focuses on cycling and health. After a brief introduction to dominant health science engagements with cycling, the chapter draws on the author's recent empirical cycling research to illustrate how a more-than-representational approach can animate the core processes involved in the emergence of health. Indeed, using Andrews and Duff's (2019) established three-part framework, the chapter shows how health emerges or recedes: 1 Relationally through networks and assemblages; 2 Within open, sensing, affective, performing bodies; 3 Immediately and pre-personally in expressive, textured spacetimes. It is concluded that more-than-representational research can show a lot more of the production of health than might be assumed. Just as this stands for cycling, it stands for numerous other health-related phenomena.