Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

Book Overview

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. Screening Saviors?: Biopolitics, College Sport, and Screening.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981329129X
• ISBN13: 9789813291294
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"