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Book SynopsisAdding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, these essays draw on the traditions of feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that it constitutes and within which is constituted.
Trade Review"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field,
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention."
-- Douglas Hartmann * author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy *
NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews * Somatic Podcast *
"Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." * Choice *
"The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." * Journal of Sport History *
Table of ContentsCover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms
Part I: Body Ontologies
Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving Body
Chapter 2. Objectified Bodies and Instrumental Movement: What Might Merleau-Ponty Say about Fitness Tracking?
Chapter 3. Body Objects, Political Physics, and Incorporation: Object-Oriented Ontology for Sport and Physical Culture
Chapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human Kinetics
Part II: Body Technologies
Chapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black Box
Chapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled Matter
Chapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from Depression
Chapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport Studies
Chapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through Barad
Part III: Body Ecologies
Chapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network Theory
Chapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the Beach
Chapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body Politic
Chapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games
Chapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving Body
Chapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)
Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Index
