Sports, Society, and Technology

Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-26
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789813291263

Utforska kategorier

Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jennifer J. Sterling is a Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa.Mary G. McDonald is the Homer C. Rice Chair of Sports and Society, and Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institution of Technology.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology.- Section I: Practices, Productions, and Knowledges.- 2. True Bounce: Stories of Dunlop and the Rise of Vulcanized Play.- 3. Manufacturing Invisibility in “the Field”: Distributed Ethics, Wearable Technologies, and the Case of Exercise Physiology.- 4. The Tangled Multiplicities of CTE: Scientific Uncertainty and the Infrastructures of Traumatic Brain Injury.- 5. The Agency of Numbers: The Role of Metrics in Influencing the Valuation of Athletes.- 6. The Numbers Game: Collegiate Esports and the Instrumentation of Movement Performance.- Section II: Bodies/Matter.- 7. Possibilities of Feminist Technoscience Studies of Sport: Beyond the Cyborg Body.- 8. Enacting Bodies: The Multiplicity of Whey Protein and the Making of Corporealities.- 9. The (In)Active Body Multiple: An Examination of How Prenatal Exercise ‘Matters’.- 10. Ignorance and the Gender Binary: Resistance to Complex Epistemologies of Sex and Testosterone.- 11. ScreeningSaviors?: Biopolitics, College Sport, and Screening.