Deleuze and the Physically Active Body

Pirkko Markula is Professor of Socio-cultural Studies of Physical Activity at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include social analyses of dance, exercise, and sport in which she has employed several theoretical lenses ranging from critical, cultural studies research to Foucault and Deleuze. She is also a contemporary dancer and choreographer.

Introduction, 1. The Strata: The Formation of Thought within a Capitalist System, 2. The Assemblage: Sport, Exercise and Dance as Cultural Arrangements, 3. The Rhizome: Researching the Physically Active Body from a Deleuzian Perspective, 4. The Body without Organs: A Purely Intensive Body, 5. Becoming: Beyond Identity Politics, 6. Affect: Understanding Force, 7. Connecting: Deleuze on Foucault, 8. Topology of Deterritorialization: Deleuzian Approach to the Moving Body and Social Change