Fitness Fanatics

Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2259682
AutoresKatie Rose Hejtmanek (0000-0002-2923-9766, Department of Anthropology, Brooklyn College CUNY, Brooklyn NY 11210 USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume122
Fascículo4
Páginas864-875
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aman.13462
OpenAlexW3081136100
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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