Sport, physical culture, and the moving body : materialisms, technologies, ecologies /
edited by Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe and David Andrews
- New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c2020
- viii, 360 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms -- Part I: Body Ontologies -- Part II: Body Technologies -- Part III: Body Ecologies -- Afterword -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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