Full Description
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape - from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.
Contents
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.
