Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies

Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) is a rapidly developing field of study that explores the diverse and relational elements of all forms of physical activity, including exercise, sport, dance, movement, health and recreation. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, including cutting-edge methodological appr

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

Introduction, Part I: Groundings, 1. Historicizing Physical Cultural Studies, 2. Power and Power Relations, 3. Theory and Reflexivity, 4. Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in PCS, 5. The Political Imperative of Feminism, 6. Praxis, Part II: Practices, 7. Therapeutic Movement / Leisure Practices, 8. Exercise and Fitness Practices, 9. Dance Practices, 10. Lifestyle Sporting Cultures and Practices, 11. (High-)Performance Sport, Part III: Subjectified Bodies, 12. Classed Bodies, 13. Raced Bodies, 14. Gendered Bodies, 15. Sexualized/Sexed Bodies, 16. [Dis]Abled Bodies, 17. Young Bodies, 18. Ageing Bodies, Part IV: Institutionalized Bodies, 19. Medicalised and Scientized Bodies, 20. Digital Bodies, 21. Spiritualized and Religious Bodies, 22. Aestheticized Bodies, 23. Fat Bodies, 24. Mediated and Commodified Bodies, 25. Spectacular and Eroticized Bodies, 26. Punished Corporal Bodies, Part V: Experiential Bodies, 27. Injured, Pained and Disrupted Bodies, 28. Risky/Risking Bodies, 29. Invisible (Women's) Bodies, 30. Affective and Pleasured Bodies, 31. Mobile Bodies, 32. Pregnant Bodies, Part VI: Spaces, 33. "Natural", Intimate and Sensory Landscapes, 34. Physical Cultural Studies, Sport and the Environment, 35. Urban and Securitised Spaces, 36. Healthified Spaces, 37. Affective Cities, 38. Exercise and Fitness Spaces, 39. Sport, Migration and Space, Part VII: Contexts and Sites of Embodied Practice, 40. Mind/Body Relations, 41. Community and Physical Culture, 42. Physical Education, Policy and Embodied Pedagogies 43. International Development and Policy, 44. Global Mega-Events, Policy and Legacy, 45. Digital Mediation, Connectivity and Affective Materialities, Part VIII: Methodological Contingencies, 46. Critical Discourse Analysis, 47. Texts / Representation, 48. Ethnographic Approaches, 49. People in Contexts, 50. Narrative Inquiry and Autoethnography, 51. Poetry, Poiesis and Physical Culture, 52. Sensory, Digital and Visual Methodologies, 53. Digital Media Methodologies, Part IX: Politics and Praxis, 54. Physical Cultural Studies and Public Pedagogies, 55. Critical Corporeal Curricula, Praxis and Change, 56. Sport, Development, and Social Change, 57. Corporate Social Responsibility, 58. Embodiment and Reflexive Body Politics, Afterword