BODY CULTURES.

This article presents an introduction to the book "Body Cultures." The book explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into "body culture," enquiring into the themes of space and place through considerations of the spatial dimensions of the body, culture and sport in society. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in much of continental Europe is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American scholars in the humanities and social sciences. "Body Cultures" is a unique collection of Eichberg's most significant writings, extensively edited to highlight his most important arguments and themes. The editors focus particularly on Eichberg's challenging claims about the notion of space: from the micro-scale of how human bodies "express" themselves or are formally "disciplined" through their movements in space, to the macro-scale of how bodies and cultures are invented and contested in connection with the self-identities which they come to possess in given places, regions, territories and nation-states.