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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body - Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Paperback)
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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body - Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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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. Contributors to Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving
Body 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. In Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body, 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 life and living; 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.
Contributors to Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body 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. By focusing on the confluence of agentive
materialities, disciplinary technologies, vibrant assemblages,
speculative realities, and vital performativities, Sport, Physical
Culture, and the Moving Body 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.
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