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Sport, Science, and Technology
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Sport, Science, and Technology

Jennifer J Sterling and Mary G McDonald
The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society
OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES, Oxford University Press
11/09/2022
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197519011.013.23

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Abstract

Science and technology continue to be intertwined with sport and physical activity. Sports studies scholars have long used a variety of theoretical and conceptual tools to detail this relationship. Increasingly scholars within the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies have also turned their attention to evaluating the ever-expanding technoscientific sporting landscape. This chapter provides an overview which maps out key ideas related to the critical study of science and technology in regard to two broad sensibilities: (1) human-centered analyses that investigate such issues as scientific racism, the use of performance-enhancing drugs and devices, and gender verification practices within sports and (2) more-than-human analyses that explore new materialisms’ and actor network theory’s emphasis on the agency of nonhuman actors, including critical investigations of technoscience as a key actor within sports. This chapter also discusses the competing ontologies which ground these different sensibilities. Additionally, the chapter examines the quantified self, or self-tracking technologies, as a way to further reveal the possibilities and limitations of both human and more-than-human approaches in regard to the study of sport, society, and technoscience.
 Big Data binaries cyborgs posthumanism science Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Research and Statistics sport technology technoscientific constructions unnatural bodies

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