Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness: A Lively Entanglement

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Acknowledgements
Praise for Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness
Contents
1: A Lively Introduction: New Materialisms, Feminisms, and Moving Bodies
	Foundations and Future Imaginings: Feminism, Sport, and Moving Bodies
	Key Tenets of New Materialisms and the Moving Body
		Lively Matter
		Entangled Bodies
		Relational Politics and Vital Respondings
	Becoming with New Materialisms: Processes of Feminist Collaboration
	Lines of Flight: Overview of the Book
2: New Materialist Methods and the Research Process
	New Materialisms, Methodology, and Process
		Methodology Without Methods
		Research as Assemblage and Scaffolding
		Postqualitative Inquiry and New Empiricisms
		Diffractive Methodology
		Research Boundaries and Processual Tensions
	Rethinking Methods with New Materialisms
		Media Analysis
		Interviews
		Participatory Methods
		Autoethnography
		Arts-Based Methods
		Embodied and Movement-Based Methods
		Re-turning to the Quantitative: Transdisciplinary and Mixed Methods
	Reflexivity, Positionality, and Ethics
	Final Thoughts on New Materialist Research Practices
3: Sporting Matter and Living with Objects of Fitness
	Critical Understandings of Sporting Objects
		Material Feminisms
		Feminist Cultural Studies
		Phenomenology and Non-representational Theory
	Rethinking Sports Objects with New Materialisms
		Object Oriented Ontology
		Actor Network Theory
		Vibrant Matter
		Agential Realism
		Towards Knowing Objects: New Materialist Methods
	Case Study: How We Came to Know the Sports Bra Differently
		Contextualizing Enlite
		Living with the Sports Bra: A Baradian-Inspired Process
		Sports Bra Entanglements
		Body-Bra Intra-actions
		Knowing the Sports Bra Differently
	Agency, New Materialisms and Sporting Objects
	Concluding Thoughts
	Pedagogical Possibilities
4: Digital Intimacies, Assemblages, and Fit Femininities
	Digital Technologies, Gender, and Moving Bodies
		Foucault: Digital Discipline, Pleasure, and Resistance
		Embodied Digital Data and Sense Making
	New Materialisms: Rethinking Digital Fitness Technologies
		Donna Haraway, the Cyborg and Companion Species
		Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism and Enchantment
		Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Affects and Assemblages
	Case: Self-Tracking and the Motherhood-Fitness Assemblage
		Annette: “When it buzzes it’s like a pat on the back”
			Affective Intimacies and Digital Practices of Care
			Rendering Visible the Unseen (Physical) Work of Motherhood
			Re-Assembling Fit Motherhood
	Conclusion: Digital Assemblages and Fit Femininities
	Pedagogical Possibilities
5: The Biocultural Possibilities of Sportswomen’s Health
	Leaning into the ‘Biological Turn’ with Feminist New Materialisms
		Lynda Birke: Feminism with ‘Blood and Guts’
		Samantha Frost: Biocultural Creatures
		Elizabeth Wilson, Gut Feminism, and Biology as ‘Strange Matter’
	Gut Feminism and Elite Sportswomen: The Case of LEA and RED-S
		Context: Sporting Culture and the ‘Ideal’ Performing Body
			Sporting Cultures and Biological Bodies
			Knowing the Biological Body: Sportswomen’s Engagement with Biodata
			The Biological Body as Dynamic, Unruly, and Agentic
	Summary: Biological Encounters with Feminist Sport Studies
	Pedagogical Possibilities
6: Apparatus and the Boundaries of Transdisciplinary Research
	Feminist New Materialisms, Transdisciplinarity, and Apparatus
		Transdisciplinarity: The Possibilities and Pitfalls
		The Research Apparatus
		Transdisciplinarity: A Baradian Approach
	Rethinking Transdisciplinary Research in Sport: A Case Study
		Reading Disciplines Through Each Other
		Intra-actions and the Everyday Performativity of Disciplinary Boundaries
		Locating and Troubling the Boundaries of the Apparatus
			Athlete Voice: A “Nodal Point” in the Sport Science Apparatus
		The Transdisciplinary Research Apparatus Revisited
	Final Thoughts: Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries with New Materialisms
	Pedagogical Possibilities
7: Feminist Ethics, the Environment, and Vital Respondings
	The Environment, New Materialisms, and Feminist Theory
		Indigenous Ways of Knowing
		Environmental Humanities
		Feminist Theory and the Environment: Debates and Divergences
	New Materialisms, Feminist Theory, and the Environment
	Sport, the Environment, and New Materialisms
	New Materialisms, Representation, and Ethics: Moving Bodies and Environmental Entanglements
		New Materialisms and the Ethics of Representation
		Collaborative Creative Writing: Body-Environment Entanglements
			Writing-Feeling Together: Part 1
		Under Red Skies
		Writing-Feeling Together: Part 2
		Vital Respondings in Pandemic Times
	Final Thoughts: New Materialisms and Feminist Respondings for Vital Futures
	Pedagogical Possibilities
8: Epilogue: Feminist New Materialisms and Lively Collaborations
References
Index