Plasticity in Motion - Sport, Gender, and Biopolitics

This book draws on Catherine Malabou's work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Brain of Death: Impressibility, Population, and Serena Williams' Return to Tennis
Chapter 2: The Brain of the Gut: The Biological Unconscious in the NBA's Age of Anxiety
Chapter 3: Indifference and Repetition: Destructive Plasticity, Injury, and Resilient Subjects
Chapter 4: The Brain of Care: Sports Medicine, Pharmacology, and Narcosis
Chapter 5: The Brain of Mathematics: Stupidity, Calculation, and Visual Pleasure
Chapter 6: Coach Killjoy: Feminist Snaps and the Female Sovereign
Chapter 7: The Brain of the Future: Childhood, Wonder, and Youth Sports
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Robert M. Foschia is assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, York.

Summary

This book draws on Catherine Malabou’s work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Foschia
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781793639585
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-958-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Communicating Gender
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Communication Studies, Gender studies, gender groups