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Sports, Society, and Technology

Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Jennifer J. Sterling

    1. University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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  2. Mary G. McDonald

    1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  • Uniquely addresses the complex entanglements of sports, society, and technology through interdisciplinary scholarship

  • Provides varied perspectives and a diverse range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions necessary to interrogate complex human-technology interactions

  • Fills a significant gap in existing scholarship by merging the strengths of STS’s object-oriented approach to technology with the focus on embodiment in Sport Studies

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Sports, Society, and Technology

    • Jennifer J. Sterling, Mary G. McDonald
    Pages 1-14

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 269-282
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About this book

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.
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Keywords

  • Sport Technology
  • Sociology of Sport
  • Sport, Technology and the Body
  • Sports, Society, and Technology
  • STS
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Reviews

“In this wonderfully curated collection, editors Jennifer Sterling and Mary McDonald make evident the value of science and technology studies (STS) for enriching our understanding of contemporary sporting cultures. They also show the value of sport for illuminating the complex effects of an increasingly technologized society. Provocative content and compelling methodological insights will surely help push both fields in new directions.” (Mary Louise Adams, Professor, Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport, Health and the Body, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Canada)

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    Jennifer J. Sterling

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Mary G. McDonald

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About the editors

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.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sports, Society, and Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

  • Editors: Jennifer J. Sterling, Mary G. McDonald

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9127-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9126-3Published: 26 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9129-4Published: 26 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9127-0Published: 12 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Sport Sociology

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