Sports, Society, and Technology
Author | : Jennifer J. Sterling |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789813291270 |
ISBN-13 | : 9813291273 |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.