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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society) by Joshua I. Newman; Holly Thorpe; David Andrews; Mary Louise Adams; Kiri Baxter; Douglas Booth; Kyle S Bunds; Michael D. Giardina; Mariana Clark; Simon C Darnell; Samantha Frost; Simone Fullagar; Pirkko Markula; Mary G. McDonald; Jennifer Sterling; Christopher McLeod; Matthew G. Hawzen; Richard Pringle; Oliver Rick; Jacob J. Bustad; Samantha King; Shannon Leigh Jette; Katelyn Esmonde; David Andrews; Carolyn Pluim; Gavin Weedon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 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

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Author

Joshua I. Newman; Holly Thorpe; David Andrews; Mary Louise Adams; Kiri Baxter; Douglas Booth; Kyle S Bunds; Michael D. Giardina; Mariana Clark; Simon C Darnell; Samantha Frost; Simone Fullagar; Pirkko Markula; Mary G. McDonald; Jennifer Sterling; Christopher McLeod; Matthew G. Hawzen; Richard Pringle; Oliver Rick; Jacob J. Bustad; Samantha King; Shannon Leigh Jette; Katelyn Esmonde; David Andrews; Carolyn Pluim; Gavin Weedon

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9782019011260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Education, Social_sciences