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Informationen zum Autor Joshua Newman (Ph.D., Maryland) is Director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development and Professor of Sport, Media, and Cultural Studies at Florida State University. His most recent book, Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation (Palgrave, with M. Giardina) was named NASSS’s Outstanding Book and was designated a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Holly Thorpe (PhD, Waikato) is a Professor in Te Oranga, School of Human Development and Movement Studies, at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She works primarily in the field of the sociology of sport and physical culture, with her research interests including youth, gender, women’s health, action sports, mobilities, social theory, and qualitative methods. She is the author of Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures (2014) (Honorable Mention for NASSS Book Award 2015) and Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice (2011). She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (with David Andrews and Michael Silk), Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience (with Rebecca Olive; Palgrave, 2019), and the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports (with Douglas Booth, 2007). David L. Andrews (Ph.D., Illinois) is a Professor within the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park. His research critically examines physical culture as a complex empirical assemblage (including, but not restricted to, sport, fitness, exercise, recreation, leisure, wellness, dance, and health-related movement practices). His publications include: Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (Peter Lang, 2006); The Blackwell Companion to Sport (edited with Ben Carrington, 2013), and Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture (edited with Michael Silk, 2012, Temple University Press); and, The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (edited with Michael Silk and Holly Thorpe, 2015). Klappentext Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body explores the extent to which the body, when moving about active body spaces (the gymnasium, the ball field, the lab, the running track, the beach, or the stadium) and those places less often connected to physical activity (the home, the street, the classroom, the automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living, as well as 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 (kinesiology, sport and exercise sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience. Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body offers 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: re-centering moving flesh as the locus of social order, environmental change, and the global political economy. Zusammenfassung Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body studies! these essays draw on 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New Materialisms Part I: Body Ontologies Chapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving Body Chapter 2. Objectified Bodies and Instrumental Movement: What Might Merleau-Ponty Say about Fitness Tracking? Chapter 3. Body Objects, Political Physics, and Incorporation: Object-Oriented Ontology for Sport and Physical Culture Chapter 4. Telomere Bi...
