About the book:
Digital technologies have become central to sporting practice, and this, in turn, changes the way that people engage with sport. In this anthology, the
authors and contributors think through how ‘the digital’ impacts sporting practices and research on such contexts. For some of us, the digital opens new avenues for research, while for others ethical issues come to the fore, especially when materials can be so easily reposted on social media. The digital often raises novel issues of collaboration with interlocutors, while also impacting our hopes to represent them appropriately. Across these instances, our interlocutors’ own ideologies and practices around sport and the digital shape our ethnographic encounters. This is a reminder that how anthropologists use technology is not so different from those with whom we work. Yet rather than reassure us, this fact prompts us to reflect on such uses, to examine the myriad ways technologies are taken up in everyday encounters.
If you would like to participate digitally via Microsoft Teams, contact Anne Tjønndal at anne.tjonndal@nord.no.
About the editors:
Sean Heath is an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at KU Leuven. He has carried out extensive research amongst swimmers in the UK, Canada, and Norway,
exploring the entangled relationships between water, the senses, and place.
Benjamin Hildred is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. He has examined cricket in postwar Sri Lanka, and is exploring the broader relationship between sport and social change.
Henrike Neuhaus is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. Their interests lie in researching Latin America, Taekwondo, knowledge transmission, care and audiovisual methods.
Thomas Carter is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Sport at the University of Brighton. He is a leading figure in the sub-discipline, having previously published six books including the seminal The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (U California Press).
