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What is New About New Materialism for Sport Sociology? Reflections on Body, Movement, and Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID12082007
AuthorsP Markula (0000-0002-0526-756X, University of Alberta, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume36
Issue1
Pages1-11
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Sport Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0741-1235 • E-ISSN: 1543-2785
PublisherHuman Kinetics (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1123/ssj.2018-0064
OpenAlexW2899280426
LanguageEN
Citations received51
References cited41

The new material turn in social sciences and humanities has drawn attention to how the material interacts with the social in the world where both human and non-human actors produce power relations. To include the material objects and their environments within the social analysis, new materialists argue for a new onto-epistemology that departs from the humanist social constructionism. To explore what this might mean for sport sociologists, I discuss three themes characterizing the new materialism: the focus on processes of materiality, post-humanist tools needed to engage with the material processes, and postqualitative research methodologies and ways of representation that include the material world. I advocate studying the body in motion as a unique focus for socio-cultural scholars of physical activity who can connect the material with the social into research that matters in the contemporary world

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Humanism · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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Unique citing works51
Citations per year6,38
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 48

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