Seeking the Senses in Physical Culture

Andrew C. Sparkes is Professor of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published extensively in international peer reviewed journals on the topic of embodiment and identity transformation over time and in differing sets of circumstance. He has also published widely on qualitative methodologies in general, and narrative, ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches in particular. Andrew has written and edited numerous books including Qualitative Research Methods in Sport, Exercise and Health: From process to product; The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise; and Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative applications, all published by Routledge

"Sport and physical activity are thoroughly embodied phenomena. From sweaty carnal exertion to intricate intersensorial skills, the fleshy sporting body is the foundation of perception ... This book is a significant step in the development of critical sensuous scholarship in physical cultures" - Ben Powis, The Senses and Society.

• 1. Researching the Senses in Physical Culture: Charting the territory and locating an emerging field[Andrew C. Sparkes]2. Making Sense of the Primal Scream: Sensory peak performance and the affective drama of athletic competitions[Phillip Vannini]3. Running a Temperature: Sociological-phenomenological perspectives on distance running, thermoception and ‘temperature work’[John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson]4. Ethnoaesthesia: Ashtanga Yoga and the sensuality of sweat[Michael Atkinson]5. Sensing Our Way through Ocean Sailing, Windsurfing and Kayaking: Tales of emplaced sensual kinaesthesia[Barbara Humberstone, Karen Fox and Mike Brown]6. Performing the Sensory Body in a Tandem Cycling Group: Social dialogues between blindness and sight[Gili Hammer]7. Glow Sport: Re-configuring perception of space in sport and leisure practice [Stephanie Merchant]8. ‘It’s only gay if you make eye contact’: The regulation of touch in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu[Jan Dutkiewicz and Dale C. Spencer]9. Mixed Martial Arts Coaches and Sensory Pedagogies [Anu M. Vaittinen]10. Researching the Senses in Physical Culture and Producing Sensual Scholarship: Methodological challenges and possibilities[Andrew C. Sparkes]