An ethnographic study of fitness practices in contemporary Medellin, Colombia.

分析的重点将是“情感经济”，即运动产生的情绪和感觉，以及如何赋予这些意义。这项研究探讨了新兴的健身实践，在最近的社会政治变化的方式正在通过哥伦比亚机构（内战结束，战斗人员重返社会，戏剧性的城市重建，转向新自由主义）的感觉。这项研究包括在麦德林进行为期12个月的实地考察，主要对象是男性前准军事战斗人员。多媒体技术将被用作研究工具和产出，以及书面论文。

The analytical focus will be "affective economies", ie the emotions and sensations produced by exercise, and how these are assigned meaning. The study examines emerging fitness practices in relation to the ways in which recent socio-political changes are being felt through Colombian bodies (the end of the civil war, reintegration of combatants, dramatic urban renewal, and the turn towards neoliberalism). The research includes twelve months of fieldwork in Medellin, working primarily with male ex-paramilitary combatants. Multimedia technologies will be used as research tools and outputs, alongside a written thesis.