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Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment - Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts (Paperback)
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Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment - Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in
a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees)
as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book
explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory
ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of
masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant
observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with
amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters'
training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in
the sport. Drawing from the philosophical phenomenology of Martin
Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book
develops bodies-centered ontological and epistemological grounding
for this study. Guided by such a position, it places bodies at the
center of analysis of MMA and elucidates the embodied experience of
pain and injury, and the sense and rhythms of fighting.
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