{"product_id":"sport-physical-culture-and-the-moving-body-materialisms-technologies-ecologies-hardback-9780813591827","title":"Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body; Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Hardback) 9780813591827","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaterialisms, Technologies, Ecologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoshua I. Newman (Edited by), Holly Thorpe (Edited by), David Andrews (Edited by), Mary Louise Adams (Contributions by), Kiri Baxter (Contributions by), Douglas Booth (Contributions by), Kyle S Bunds (Contributions by), Michael D. Giardina (Contributions by), Mariana Clark (Contributions by), Simon C Darnell (Contributions by), Samantha Frost (Contributions by), Simone Fullagar (Contributions by), Pirkko Markula (Contributions by), Mary G. McDonald (Contributions by), Jennifer Sterling (Contributions by), Christopher McLeod (Contributions by), Matthew G. Hawzen (Contributions by), Richard Pringle (Contributions by), Oliver Rick (Contributions by), Jacob J. Bustad (Contributions by), Samantha King (Contributions by), Shannon Leigh Jette (Contributions by), Katelyn Esmonde (Contributions by), David Andrews (Contributions by), Carolyn Pluim (Contributions by), Gavin Weedon (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813591827\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages, 13 Pic, 1 Table\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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  \u003c\/div\u003e - Douglas Hartmann (author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/somaticpodcast.com\/2020\/01\/18\/new-materialism-and-the-active-body-ep-14\/#more-936\"'\u003eNEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Somatic Podcast) \u003cdiv\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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Sport History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e​ Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The moving body-pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events-holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves-as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps-it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social class, etc.). It represents vitality in its productive and physiological capacities, it drives a complex economy of experiences and products, and it is a meaningful site of cultural identities and politics.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Contributors to \u003ci\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e work from a simple premise: as it moves, the material body matters. Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies, the works featured here draw upon 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. Once assembled, the book presents a study of bodies in motion-made to move in contexts where technique, performance, speed, strength, and vitality not only define the conduct therein, but provide the very reason for the body’s being within those economies and environments. In so doing, the contributors look to how the body moving for and about rational systems of science, medicine, markets, and geopolity shapes the social and material world in important and unexpected ways.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors explore the extent to which the body, when moving about both ostensibly active body spaces (i.e., the gymnasium, the ball field, exercise laboratory, the track or running trail, the beach, or the sport stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (i.e. the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of \u003ci\u003elife \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e living\u003c\/i\u003e; and to the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise of active body science (i.e. kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Contributors to \u003ci\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e will be engaging a range of new and emerging theoretical perspectives, including new materialist, political ecology, developmental systems theory, and new material feminist approaches, to examine the actors and assemblages of movement-based material, political, and economic production. In so doing, contributors will vividly and powerfully illustrate the extent to which a focus on the fleshed body and its material conditions can bring forth new insights or ontological and epistemological innovation to the sociology of sport and physical activity. They will also explore the agency of the body as and amongst things. Such a performative materialist approach explicates how complex assemblages of sport and physical activity-bringing into association everything from muscle fibers and dietary proteins to stadium concrete or regional aquifers-are not only meaningful, but ecological.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e By focusing on the confluence of agentive materialities, disciplinary technologies, vibrant assemblages, speculative realities, and vital performativities, \u003ci\u003eSport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e promises to offer a groundbreaking departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus: recentering moving flesh and bones as locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 \"\u003cbr\u003eNew\"\u003cbr\u003e 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 \"\u003cbr\u003eSport for Development and Peace\"\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563723583768,"sku":"9780813591827","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sport-physical-culture-and-the-moving-body-materialisms-technologies-ecologies-hardback-9780813591827","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}