ABSTRACT
Glow Sport events have burst on to the mass participation sport event scene in the last few years with a number of organizers putting events on across the UK, and hundreds more in the USA and across Europe. This chapter provides an overview of two key bodies of work, which have influenced and indeed instigated in exploring the embodied experience of taking part in 'glow sport' events. These are: Sensory Anthropology of physical culture and non-representational conceptualizations of sensory engagement with space. The chapter present an overview of sense specific studies to isolate, mobilize and describe the process of focusing on one or multiple senses, for the purpose of academic enquiry. It addresses a gap in embodied, sensorily focused research generally from a physical cultural studies perspective but more specifically, within an emerging event base of glow/dark sport. The chapter outlines the theoretical and methodological approach undertaken before moving on to discuss the reorganization of the swim sensorium.
