This volume brings together articles, original essays and critical reflections on physical culture and the body today. Covering conceptual, methodological and empirical topics from phenomenology and feminist ethnography to basketball, boxing and cycling, this is an essential text for anyone interested in the body as a focus of the research act.

Section I: Theoretical Movements 1. Sporting embodiment: Sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology 2. Physical capital and situated action: A new direction for corporeal sociology 3. What is this 'physical' in physical cultural studies? 4. From embodiment to emplacement: Re-thinking competing bodies, senses, and spatialities Section II: Methodological Movements 5. Ethnography as precarious work 6. Feminist ethnography and physical culture: Towards reflexive, political, and collaborative methods 7. Habitus as topic and tool: Reflections on becoming a prizefighter 8. Moving in the margins: Active urban bodies and the politics of ethnography 9. The embodied experience: Dance ethnography and the dancing body Section III: Empirical Movements 10. Methods that move: Exploring young women's embodied experiences of femininity and exer-games 11. Research on the run: Moving methods and the charity 'thon' 12. Competing masculinities: South Asian American identity formation in Asian American basketball leagues 13. (Auto)ethnography and cycling