Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity

Robert Pitter, PhD, is a professor at Acadia University. His publications have examined sport, physical activity, and society as well as environmental education and organizational theory. He has been published in such journals as Research in Sport and Exercise Quarterly, Quest, Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for Sociology of Sport, and Journal of Sport and Social Issues.David L. Andrews is a professor of physical cultural studies in the department of kinesiology at the University of Maryland. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the department of American studies and the department of sociology.Dr. Andrews' research interests center on contextualizing sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary society. His latest book is titled Making Sport Great Again? The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (published by Palgrave). Previous books include Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (published by Peter Lang), Sport and Neoliberalism: Politics, Consumption, and Culture (edited with Michael Silk and published by Temple University Press), The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (edited with Michael Silk and Holly Thorpe and published by Routledge), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (edited with Joshua Newman and Holly Thorpe and published by Rutgers University Press). His current book project is titled The Great Moving Right Show: Sport, Political Assemblages, and the Trump Awakening (to be published by Rutgers University Press).Joshua I. Newman, PhD, is director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development and a professor of sport, media, and cultural studies at Florida State University. He is also the doctorate program coordinator and associate chair in the department of sport management. Previously, Newman was a lecturer of sport studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 2017, he served as president and research fellow of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication & Sport, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Sport Journal. Newman’s work has featured in The Society Pages, the Somatic Podcast, and the Global Sport Matters Podcast, and he has done interviews for the Washington Post, Time magazine, BuzzFeed, and the Associated Press.

• Part I. Body Institutions: Foundations and ConsiderationsChapter 1. IntroductionRobert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon WallaceDefining Physical CulturePhysical Culture and the Sociological ImaginationThe Importance of a Critical and Theoretical ApproachCase Study: Fitness and SocietyConclusionChapter 2. Politics of the Active BodyAndrew Grainger, Brandon Wallace, and David L. AndrewsPolitics as PowerAntonio Gramsci and HegemonyHegemony, Sport, and the Active BodyDominant, Residual, and Emergent Forms of Physical CultureConclusionChapter 3. Critical Pedagogy and the Active BodyRyan King-White and Matthew HawzenThe Focus of Physical EducationCritical PedagogyUnderstanding and Applying Critical PedagogyCritical Pedagogy in KinesiologyConclusionChapter 4. Medicine, Technology, and the Active BodyKatelyn EsmondePhysical Activity and EpidemiologyPhysical TechnoculturesSociocultural Issues and Possibilities for Technologies of Physical CultureConclusionChapter 5. The Corporeal Sport EconomyAdam Beissel, Chris McLeod, and David L. AndrewsThe Economic Base and Sporting SuperstructureSport and CapitalismThe Late Capitalist (Cultural) EconomySport and Late CapitalismWhat Is a Corporeal Economy?The Material and Social Relations of Late Capitalist ProductionThe Active Body as Instrument in Sport ProductionThe Active Body as Object of Sport ProductionConclusionPart II. Body Stratification: Meanings and Social IdentitiesChapter 6. Gender, Sex, and Physical CultureShannon Jette, David L. Andrews, and Robert PitterSocial Construction of Gendered IdentitiesPerformances of Exercise CulturePerformances of Sport CultureExpanding the Range of Gender Identity Through Physical CultureConclusionChapter 7. Racialized Bodies and Black and Indigenous Physical CulturesBrandon Wallace, Robert Pitter, and David L. AndrewsDisrupting the Myth of RaceRace or Ethnicity?African Americans and Black Physical CultureNative Americans and Indigenous Physical CulturesConclusionChapter 8. Social Class, Habitus, and Physical CultureRobert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon WallaceHow Social Class MattersSocial Class Distribution of Physical ActivityClass Habitus, Hexis, and Embodied Lifestyle CulturesConclusionChapter 9. Disability, Sport, Activity, and Public HealthMollie Greenberg and Stephanie J. CorkWhat Is Disability? A Note on LanguageEarly History of Disability in SocietyCurrent Models of DisabilityActivism and Civil Rights LegislationConfronting Health, Illness and DisabilityDiscrimination Against People With DisabilitiesAdapted Physical Activity and SportNeurodiversityThe Special OlympicsConclusionPart III. Body Movements: Scales and SpacesChapter 10. Popular Culture and the Active BodyMichael D. Giardina and A. Lamont WilliamsA Note About Popular CultureThe Active Body in Early Popular CultureThe Active Body in Contemporary Popular CultureConclusionChapter 11. Physical Activity and CommunityRobert Pitter, Brandon Wallace, and David L. AndrewsConceptualizing CommunityCreating Community via Physical CultureCommunity Development via Physical ActivityConclusionChapter 12. The Active Body in CitiesOliver J.C. Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, and Bryan C. CliftThe Rise of the Neoliberal CityModels of Urban Physical Activity ProvisionCreative Sport and Recreation: Designing Physical Activity AttractionsConclusionChapter 13. Globalization and Physical ActivityJoshua Newman, David L. Andrews, and Robert PitterLocal and Global MovementsWhat Is Globalization?Debates on GlobalizationGlobal Physical CultureGlobal Media SpectaclesThe Globalization of Culture and EconomyEconomic Globalization at WorkThe Problem of Global Sporting Goods ProductionGlobal Migration: People on the MoveConclusionChapter 14. The Environment and the Active BodyMartin Barrett and Kyle S. BundsThe Body as the EnvironmentThe Body in the EnvironmentThe Body for the EnvironmentConclusion