{"product_id":"sport-physical-culture-and-the-moving-body-materialisms-technologies-ecologies-critical-issues-in-sport-and-society-9780813591827","title":"Sport Physical Culture and the Moving Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, \u003ci\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Douglas Hartmann * author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy *\u003cbr\u003eNEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews * Somatic Podcast *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Page\u003cbr\u003e Title Page\u003cbr\u003e Copyright Page\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Body Ontologies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving Body\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Objectified Bodies and Instrumental Movement: What Might Merleau-Ponty Say about Fitness Tracking?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Body Objects, Political Physics, and Incorporation: Object-Oriented Ontology for Sport and Physical Culture\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A \"New\" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human Kinetics\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Body Technologies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black Box\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled Matter\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from Depression\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport Studies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through Barad\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Body Ecologies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Reassembling \"Sport for Development and Peace\" through Actor-Network Theory\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the Beach\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body Politic\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving Body\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405797400919,"sku":"9780813591827","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813591827.jpg?v=1730493652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sport-physical-culture-and-the-moving-body-materialisms-technologies-ecologies-critical-issues-in-sport-and-society-9780813591827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}