Description
The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together original insights on contemporary physical culture from key figures working in a variety of disciplines, offering a wealth of different theoretical and philosophical ways of engaging with the body while never losing site of the material form of the research act itself.
Contributors spanning the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, communications, and sport studies highlight conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches to the body that include observant-participation, feminist ethnography, autoethnography, physical cultural studies, and phenomenology. They provide vivid case studies of embodied research on topics including basketball, boxing, cycling, dance, fashion modelling and virtual gaming. This international collection not only reflects on the most important recent developments in embodied research practices, but also looks forward to the continuing importance of the body as a focus for research and the possibilities this presents for studies of the active, moving body in physical culture and beyond.
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, method and praxis is fascinating reading for all those interested in physical cultural studies, the sociology of sport and leisure, physical education or the body.
Table of Contents
Section I: Theoretical Movements
1. Sporting embodiment: Sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology
[Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson]
2. Physical capital and situated action: A new direction for corporeal sociology
[Chris Shilling]
3. What is this ‘physical’ in physical cultural studies?
[Michael D. Giardina and Joshua Newman]
4. From embodiment to emplacement: Re-thinking competing bodies, senses, and spatialities
[Sarah Pink]
Section II: Methodological Movements
5. Ethnography as precarious work
[Ashley Mears]
6. Feminist ethnography and physical culture: Towards reflexive, political, and collaborative methods
[Rebecca Olive and Holly Thorpe]
7. Habitus as topic and tool: Reflections on becoming a prizefighter
[Loïc Wacquant]
8. Moving in the margins: Active urban bodies and the politics of ethnography
[Bryan Clift and Jacob Bustad]
9. The embodied experience: Dance ethnography and the dancing body
[Pirkko Markula]
Section III: Empirical Movements
10. Methods that move: Exploring young women’s embodied experiences of femininity and exer-games
[Jessica Francombe-Webb]
11. Research on the run: Moving methods and the charity ‘thon’
[Catherine Palmer]
12. Competing masculinities: South Asian American identity formation in Asian American basketball leagues
[Stanley Thangaraj]
13. (Auto)ethnography and cycling
[Jonas Larsen]
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