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Sport, physical culture, and the moving body : materialisms, technologies, ecologies / edited by Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe and David Andrews

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c2020Description: viii, 360 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780813591810
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 558 .S66 2020
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Master in Physical Education GC GV 558 .S66 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000018895

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

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