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What is a Sporting Body? (Part 3)

by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Have you read Part 1 and 2? If not, get it here! Part 1 Part 2 The seven articles in the second collection further open new lines of flight for thinking about the relations…

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What is a Sporting Body? (Part 1)

by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Sport, it seems, is everywhere. It predominates our mediascapes, commands sizeable outlays of public capital, populates our social media channels, and drapes itself upon our logo-adorning corpuses. It has, in many ways, become the…