Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies
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Book Description
Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, cultural studies, performance studies and anthropology.
Featuring chapters written by world-leading scholars, this handbook examines the most important themes and issues within PCS, exploring the active body through the lens of class, age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability, medicine, religion, space and culture. Each chapter provides an overview of the state of knowledge in a particular subject area, while also considering possibilities for developing future research.
Representing a landmark contribution to physical cultural studies and allied fields, the Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies is an essential text for any undergraduate or postgraduate course on physical culture, sports studies, leisure studies, the sociology of sport, the body, or sport and social theory.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Michael Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe
Part I: Groundings
1. Historicizing Physical Cultural Studies
Patricia Vertinsky and Gavin Weedon
2. Power and Power Relations
Michael Atkinson and Kass Gibson
3. Theory and Reflexivity
Richard Pringle and Holly Thorpe
4. Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in PCS
Leslie Heywood
5. The Political Imperative of Feminism
Rebecca Olive
6. Praxis
Michael Silk and Joanne Mayoh
Part II: Practices
7. Therapeutic Movement / Leisure Practices
Stephanie Merchant
8. Exercise and Fitness Practices
Nick Crossley
9. Dance Practices
Pirkko Markula and Marianne Clarke
10. Lifestyle Sporting Cultures and Practices
Belinda Wheaton
11. (High-)Performance Sport
Jim Denison and J.P. Mills
Part III: Subjectified Bodies
12. Classed Bodies
Alan Bairner
13. Raced Bodies
Ben Carrington
14. Gendered Bodies
Clifton Evers and Jennifer Germon
15. Sexualized/Sexed Bodies
Megan Chawansky and Satoko Itani
16. [Dis]Abled Bodies
P. David Howe
17. Young Bodies
Louise McCuaig, Eimear Enright and Doune Macdonald
18. Ageing Bodies
Cassandra Phoenix
Part IV: Institutionalized Bodies
19. Medicalised and Scientized Bodies
Parissa Safai
20. Digital Bodies
Deborah Lupton
21. Spiritualized and Religious Bodies
Andrew Parker and Nick J. Watson
22. Aestheticized Bodies
Julia Coffey
23. Fat Bodies
Michael Gard
24. Mediated and Commodified Bodies
David Rowe
25. Spectacular and Eroticized Bodies
Toby Miller
26. Punished Corporal Bodies
Aaron L. Miller
Part V: Experiential Bodies
27. Injured, Pained and Disrupted Bodies
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
28. Risky/Risking Bodies
Mike Brown
29. Invisible (Women’s) Bodies
Kim Toffoletti and Catherine Palmer
30. Affective and Pleasured Bodies
Adele Pavlidis
31. Mobile Bodies
Phil Jones
32. Pregnant Bodies
Shannon Jette
Part VI: Spaces
33. "Natural", Intimate and Sensory Landscapes
Gordon Waitt
34. Physical Cultural Studies, Sport and the Environment
Brian Wilson and Brad Millington
35. Urban and Securitised Spaces
Michael Silk and Andrew Manley
36. Healthified Spaces
Caroline Fusco
37. Affective Cities
Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack
38. Exercise and Fitness Spaces
Roberta Sassatelli
39. Sport, Migration and Space
Thomas F. Carter
Part VII: Contexts and Sites of Embodied Practice
40. Mind/Body Relations
Simone Fullagar
41. Community and Physical Culture
Jacob J. Bustad and Bryan C. Clift
42. Physical Education, Policy and Embodied Pedagogies
Lisette Burrows and Laura De Pian
43. International Development and Policy
Simon C. Darnell
44. Global Mega-Events, Policy and Legacy
Barbara Schausteck de Almeida
45. Digital Mediation, Connectivity and Affective Materialities
Jessica Ringrose and Laura Harvey
Part VIII: Methodological Contingencies
46. Critical Discourse Analysis
Toni Bruce, Jenny Rankine and Raymond Nairn
47. Texts / Representation
Cheryl Cooky
48. Ethnographic Approaches
Ryan King-White
49. People in Contexts
Natalie Barker-Ruchti and Astrid Schubring
50. Narrative Inquiry and Autoethnography
Brett Smith
51. Poetry, Poiesis and Physical Culture
Katie Fitzpatrick
52. Sensory, Digital and Visual Methodologies
Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors and Martin Berg
53. Digital Media Methodologies
Steph MacKay
Part IX: Politics and Praxis
54. Physical Cultural Studies and Public Pedagogies
Emma Rich and Jennifer A. Sandlin
55. Critical Corporeal Curricula, Praxis and Change
Jessica Francombe-Webb, Michael Silk and Anthony Bush
56. Sport, Development, and Social Change
Shawn Forde, Devra Waldman, Lyndsay Hayhurst and Wendy Frisby
57. Corporate Social Responsibility
Roger Levermore
58. Embodiment and Reflexive Body Politics
Josh Newman and Michael Giardina
Afterword
Tara Brabazon
Editor(s)
Biography
Michael L. Silk is a Professor of Sport and Social Sciences and Founder and Director of the Sport and Physical Activity Research Centre (SPARC) at Bournemouth University, UK. His research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the relationships between sport, physical activity, the governance of bodies, mediated spectacles, identities and urban spaces. He has published over 100 research articles and has written numerous books including The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport, Qualitative Research in Physical Culture, Sports Coaching Research, Sport and Neoliberalism, Sport and Corporate Nationalisms and Qualitative Research for Sports Studies.
David L. Andrews is a Professor of Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Maryland, USA. His research examines physical culture as a complex empirical assemblage (including, but not restricted to, sport, fitness, exercise, recreation, leisure, wellness, dance and health-related movement practices). His publications include Sport–Commerce–Culture, The Blackwell Companion to Sport and Sport and Neoliberalism. He serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and on the editorial boards of the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Communication and Sport and Leisure Studies.
Holly Thorpe is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Development and Movement Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research interests include action sports, youth culture, women's health and critical sport for development studies. Running throughout these topics is a focus on the moving body, social theory and feminist theory. She has published over 60 journal articles and is the author of Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures and Snowboarding Bodies in Theor
Reviews
"A useful starting point for discussion as to the nature of current thinking in [physical cultural studies] and some indications as to where the field may go ... Summing Up: Recommended" - S. H. M. Reekie, San Jose State University, CHOICE