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.

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 Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human Kinetics
Part II: Body Technologies
Chapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black Box
Chapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled Matter
Chapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from Depression
Chapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport Studies
Chapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through Barad
Part III: Body Ecologies
Chapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network Theory
Chapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the Beach
Chapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body Politic
Chapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games
Chapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving Body
Chapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)
Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Index

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).