ABSTRACT

Written at a time when new ways of knowing, relating and responding to the environment appear more urgent than ever, this paper explores the potential of using new materialist theory for more-than-human understandings of sport and the environment. The paper consists of three parts. We begin by reviewing key trends in research on sport and the environment, before signaling the recent turn towards new materialist ontological principles to explore the intra-actions between sport, physical leisure and the natural environment. We then turn specifically to feminist new materialisms to examine the important contributions such theoretical strands offer for rethinking human and nonhuman entanglements with the environment. In the third and final part we take inspiration from feminist new materialisms to propose a research imaginary aimed towards opening new ‘lines of flight’ in sport and environment research, praxis and pedagogies, particularly in relation to: (i) methods, (ii) modes of representation, (iii) ethical understandings, and (iv) teaching tools. In so doing, we hope this paper encourages others to explore how feminist new materialist approaches might enable new noticings, vital respondings, and thus feminist ethics and response-abilities to (and with) the environments that our sporting and movement practices are already entangled.

摘要

在撰写新的认识，关联和对环境作出反应的方法比以往任何时候都迫切的时候，本文探讨了使用新的唯物主义理论来超越人类对体育和环境的理解的潜力。本文由三部分组成。首先，我们回顾一下体育与环境研究的主要趋势，然后指出最近转向新的唯物主义本体论原理，以探索体育，身体休闲与自然环境之间的内在相互作用。然后，我们专门转向女权主义的新唯物主义，研究这种理论对重新思考人类和非人类与环境的纠缠提供了重要的贡献。在第三部分（也是最后一部分）中，我们从女权主义的新唯物主义中汲取灵感，提出了一项虚构的研究，旨在在体育和环境研究，实践和教学法中开辟新的“飞行路线”，尤其是在以下方面：（i）方法，（ii）代表方式，（iii）道德理解和（iv）教学工具。通过这样做，我们希望本文能够鼓励其他人探索女权主义的新唯物主义方法如何能够引起新的关注，重要的回应，从而使女权主义的道德观念和应对能力（和与我们的体育和运动实践纠缠在一起的环境相适应）。