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).

"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that  will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention."- Douglas Hartmann (author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy) NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews (Somatic Podcast) "Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." (Choice) "The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." (Journal of Sport History)

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsForewordIntroduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New MaterialismsPart I: Body OntologiesChapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving BodyChapter 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 CultureChapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human KineticsPart II: Body TechnologiesChapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black BoxChapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled MatterChapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from DepressionChapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport StudiesChapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through BaradPart III: Body EcologiesChapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network TheoryChapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the BeachChapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body PoliticChapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic GamesChapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving BodyChapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)AfterwordNotes on ContributorsIndex

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).

"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that  will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention."- Douglas Hartmann (author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy) NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews (Somatic Podcast) "Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." (Choice) "The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." (Journal of Sport History)

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsForewordIntroduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New MaterialismsPart I: Body OntologiesChapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving BodyChapter 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 CultureChapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human KineticsPart II: Body TechnologiesChapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black BoxChapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled MatterChapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from DepressionChapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport StudiesChapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through BaradPart III: Body EcologiesChapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network TheoryChapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the BeachChapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body PoliticChapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic GamesChapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving BodyChapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)AfterwordNotes on ContributorsIndex

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).

"Written by a veritable who’s who of the most visible, consistently provocative, and cutting-edge researchers and thinkers in the field, Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body represents a field-shaping theoretical intervention that  will enrich the sociological study of sport and has the potential to bring sport research and theory to broader scholarly audiences and attention."- Douglas Hartmann (author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy) NEW MATERIALISM AND THE ACTIVE BODY – EP 14 interview with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews (Somatic Podcast) "Although sport and its accoutrements are the focus of all the authors, the primary purpose of the anthology is actually engagement with the theories in order to better understand sport. This anthology may introduce readers to a variety of theorists and approaches, but it is not an introductory work on sport theory. For serious sport theorists, though, it is a smorgasbord. Highly recommended." (Choice) "The editors assembled an impressive pool of scholars who are noted experts in sport fields of cultural, gender, and political studies.... [The book is] timely as it appears at a stage when the quantification of the black body through testing and measurement in the field of sport science has reappeared." (Journal of Sport History)

• Cover PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsForewordIntroduction: Sport, Physical Culture, and New MaterialismsPart I: Body OntologiesChapter 1. Contextualizing the Material, Moving BodyChapter 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 CultureChapter 4. Telomere Biology in an Age of Precarity: A "New" Materialist Experiment in a More-Than-Human KineticsPart II: Body TechnologiesChapter 5. Big Bodies, Big Data: Unpacking the FitnessGram Black BoxChapter 6. The Politics of the Gloves: Finding Meaning in Entangled MatterChapter 7. Diffracting Mind-Body Relations: Feminist Materialism and the Entanglement of Physical Culture in Women's Recovery from DepressionChapter 8. Toward a Multispecies Sport StudiesChapter 9. Reimagining the Dancing Body with and through BaradPart III: Body EcologiesChapter 10. Reassembling "Sport for Development and Peace" through Actor-Network TheoryChapter 11. Entangling Corporeal Matter and Geomatter: Making and Remaking the BeachChapter 12. Bodies of Water: Intra-actions among Water, Sport, and the Body PoliticChapter 13. Feminist New Materialisms and the Troubling Waters of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic GamesChapter 14. Flattening the City: Assemblage Urbanism and the Moving BodyChapter 15. What Can New Materialisms Do for the Critical Study of Sport and Physical Culture? (Who Does This Book Think It Is?)AfterwordNotes on ContributorsIndex