Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies

This new title in the series brings together a unique selection of the multiple feminisms articulated by Irish writers between 1825 and 1930, a ?long Victorian? period. The five volumes foreground a multiplicity of beliefs and attitudes from novels, poetry, short stories, newspaper and journal articles, and essays, both by relatively unknown and by more celebrated writers (such as Lady Gregory, Lady Wilde, and the Parnells).

Michael Silk is a Reader in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences and Head of the Physical Cultural Studies Research Group at the University of Bath, UK. He is author or editor of several books, including The Cultural Politics of Post 9/11 Sport: Power, Pedagogy and the Popular; Qualitative Research in Physical Culture (with Pirkko Markula); Sports Coaching Research: Contexts, Consequences and Consciousness (with Hugh Lauder, Anthony Bush and David Andrews); Sport & Neoliberalism (with David Andrews); Sport & Corporate Nationalisms (with David Andrews and C.L. Cole) and Qualitative Research for Sports Studies (with D. Mason and David Andrews). His research and scholarship is interdisciplinary and focuses on the relationships between sport & physical activity (physical culture), the governance of bodies, cultural pedagogies, and, identity politics. He has published over 90 research articles and chapters on these topics, most recently in Sociology, International Journal of Cultural Studies,?and?Journal of Urban Cultural Studies.

David L. Andrews is a Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park, an affiliate faculty member of the Departments of American Studies and Sociology, and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and an editorial board member of the Sociology of Sport Journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Kinesiological Review. His research utilizes an interdisciplinary and contextual approach to understanding the social, political, economic, and technological relations shaping the contemporary structure and experience of sport and physical culture, and has appeared in a variety of journals, including: the Sociology of Sport Journal; Review for the Sociology of Sport; and Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Recent books publications include, Sport and Neoliberalism (with Michael L. Silk:), and The Blackwell Companion to Sport (with Ben Carrington).

Holly Thorpe is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is the author of Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice and Transnational Action Sport Mobilities, and co-editor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, and the Greenwood Extreme Sport series. Her research interests include social theory, qualitative methods, the body, youth culture, gender, action sports, women’s sport and physical activity, and sport for development and peace building. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, with publications in sociology, history and psychology. She has published 26 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (including Sociology, Mobilities, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sport, Education and Society, Sociology of Sport Journal, Journal of Sport History, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology) and has more than 10 book chapters. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of the Sociology of Sport Journal about research at the intersection between sociology and psychology, and recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Sport History about feminist sport history. Internationally recognized for her research, Thorpe was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Georgetown University in 2012, and a Leverhulme Fellowship to the University of Brighton in 2010. She is on the editorial board of the Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, and recently finished her term on the Sociology of Sport Journal.