Jennifer Sterling, University of Iowa; Gian Marco Campagnolo, University of Edinburgh Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
While sport studies scholars have established sport as a key site of cultural meanings and social relations, fewer scholars have engaged these issues within technology and science studies frameworks. This intersection of critical sport, science, and technology studies is key to understanding current and future collisions and impacts within sport and related cultures, particularly in these moments of simultaneous technoscientific proliferation and reckoning.
This panel invites papers broadly concerned with social and cultural inquiry into the intersection of science, technology, and sport. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: sport analytics, data science, algorithmic culture, and the quantified self; gaming and eSports; issues related to medicine, risk, and sport; performance enhancement and bioethics; sporting labs and technoscientific practices; animal or multispecies studies; elite, professional, and commercial sporting practices in relation to digital objectivity, player performance, injury prevention, player valuation, etc.; public understandings, consumption, and perceptions of sport science and sport technology; (new) media and other representations and circulations of science, technology, and sport; science, technology, and sport in relation to (dis)ability, gender, race, class, and sexuality; infrastructure, sustainability, the environment and sport; and digital and/or technoscientific sporting futures.
In addition, given the focus of the conference theme, ESOCITE as the joint meeting host, and the heightened importance of reflecting upon, interrogating, and imagining current and future reconfigurations, papers that examine shifting epistemic infrastructures, address ongoing oppressions and inequities, center an ethic of care, or situate relations between sport, science, and technology within Latin American contexts are especially welcome.
