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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape - from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology.- Section I: Practices, Productions, and Knowledges.- 2. True Bounce: Stories of Dunlop and the Rise of Vulcanized Play.- 3. Manufacturing Invisibility in "the Field": Distributed Ethics, Wearable Technologies, and the Case of Exercise Physiology.- 4. The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury.- 5. The Agency of Numbers: The Role of Metrics in Influencing the Valuation of Athletes.- 6. The Numbers Game: Collegiate Esports and the Instrumentation of Movement Performance.- Section II: Bodies/Matter.- 7. Possibilities of Feminist Technoscience Studies of Sport: Beyond the Cyborg Body.- 8. Enacting Bodies: The Multiplicity of Whey Protein and the Making of Corporealities.- 9. The (In)Active Body Multiple: An Examination of How Prenatal Exercise 'Matters'.- 10. Ignorance and the Gender Binary: Resistance to Complex Epistemologies of Sex and Testosterone.- 11. ScreeningSaviors?: Biopolitics, College Sport, and Screening.
About the author
Jennifer J. Sterling is a Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa.
Mary G. McDonald is the Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society, and Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institution of Technology.
