Abstract “Welcome to CrossFit : Join the World’s leading platform for health, happiness, and performance” – the CrossFit.com website boldly advertises. Since its inception, an elaborate set of narratives has developed around CrossFit. These narratives often include the ideas that CrossFit is for everyone, regardless of age or physical background ; that it helps achieve an unparalleled level of mental toughness and physical fitness. At the Read more about “Panic, Loss, Gratitude, and Sanity”: The Impact of COVID-19 Gym Closures on the Experience of Community in CrossFit[…]

The published version can be accessed through JSTOR. A draft version is available on Academia. Abstract Warnings about climate change often come wrapped in apocalyptic language and scenarios, often as a rhetorical strategy to convey the sense of urgency with which action is required. Similarly, technologies that promise to deliver us from the impending climate Read more about “Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies[…]

Abstract “Some four or five weeks ago, a strange procession made its way through the north-western suburbs of London, from Camden Town to Highgate Cemetery” reports The Spectator in its 10 February 1866 edition. The obituary – or more a form of reckoning – is dedicated to Tom Sayers (1826–1865), considered the last English bare-knuckle Read more about Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance:Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations[…]

This blogpost explores the sport of CrossFit as meaningful material practice via the use and display of t-shirts. It offers a unique case study and encourages us to look at the domain of sport with new eyes, one where materials, artefacts and practices are simultaneously part of the mundane world but also transcend the ordinary Read more about Clothed with Strength: Meaningful Material Practices in the Sport of CrossFit[…]