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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production (Paperback)

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By Jennifer J. Sterling (Editor), Mary G. McDonald (Editor)
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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.

About the Author


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.

Product Details
ISBN: 9789813291294
ISBN-10: 981329129X
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: November 26th, 2020
Pages: 282
Language: English