Fitness Fanatics

Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2259682
AutoresKatie Rose Hejtmanek (0000-0002-2923-9766, Department of Anthropology, Brooklyn College CUNY, Brooklyn NY 11210 USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen122
Número4
Páginas864-875
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.13462
OpenAlexW3081136100
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas32

Physical fitness has a long history in the United States. Currently, functional fitness has emerged as a popular, novel method of exercising. Based on years of ethnographic research on a branded version of functional fitness, I argue this form of exercise is an audit system and culture, initiated by the creators of the brand itself, implemented in the gyms, and governed by the participants. This article illustrates that such an exercise regimen is a response to the post-9/11 world-complete with war on terror, economic insecurity, and border security threats-and provides a window into the necropolitics of elite, white America due to an uncertain, neoliberal future. [fitness, audit culture, race, zombie apocalypse, United States

Audit · Computer security · Economics · Elite · Ethnography · Management · Physical fitness · Physical therapy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Zombie · Anthropology · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Medicine