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This ground breaking Research Handbook adeptly navigates how gender
and diversity are addressed in sport management. Offering insight
into practices and processes that work to exclude certain groups
and practices and favour others, it highlights how gendered ways of
organising sport are experienced and may be sustained, disrupted,
and challenged. Leading international scholars employ theoretical
frameworks to comprehensively set out how individuals or groups
engaged in leading and managing sport are situated in the social
world and engage in managerial practices. Providing a wealth of
conceptual analyses, the authors of the various chapters explore
diverse feminist theories, perspectives, and methodologies to
expertly examine gender-based marginalisation in sport management
at local and international levels. Expert contributors reveal how
women negotiate and navigate gender and intersecting identity
categories in sport organisations. Presenting a wide variety of
feminist perspectives on sport management, sport organisations, and
coaching, this Research Handbook will prove a valuable resource to
researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the
fields of sport management and sport sociology. It will also be
essential reading for policymakers working in sport organisations.
This volume examines Gilles Deleuze's philosophy as it relates to
the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical
and practical examples of how the physically active body can be
examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity
using a Deleuzian perspective. Examining topics such as, the
formation of thought within a capitalist system; sport, exercise,
and dance as cultural arrangements; researching the physically
active body from a Deleuzian perspective; and Deleuze on Foucault,
this book shows ways of investigating the moving body as an agent
for initiating social change. This is fascinating reading for
students and researchers working in the fields of the Sociology of
Sport, Sport and Politics, and Sport and Social Theory.
Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important
place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in
popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance
challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the
first collection of original qualitative research to examine
distance running through a socio-cultural lens, with a general
objective of understanding the concept and meaning of endurance
historically and in contemporary times. Adopting diverse
theoretical and methodological approaches to explore topics such as
historical conceptualizations of endurance, lived experiences of
endurance running, and the meaning of endurance in individual
lives, the book reveals how the biological, historical,
psychological, and sociological converge to form contextually
specific ideas about endurance running and runners. Endurance
Running is an essential book for anybody researching across the
entire spectrum of endurance sports and fascinating reading for
anybody working in the sociology of sport or the body, cultural
studies or behavioural science.
Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important
place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in
popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance
challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the
first collection of original qualitative research to examine
distance running through a socio-cultural lens, with a general
objective of understanding the concept and meaning of endurance
historically and in contemporary times. Adopting diverse
theoretical and methodological approaches to explore topics such as
historical conceptualizations of endurance, lived experiences of
endurance running, and the meaning of endurance in individual
lives, the book reveals how the biological, historical,
psychological, and sociological converge to form contextually
specific ideas about endurance running and runners. Endurance
Running is an essential book for anybody researching across the
entire spectrum of endurance sports and fascinating reading for
anybody working in the sociology of sport or the body, cultural
studies or behavioural science.
Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied
experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly
visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising,
and studies indicate that women are generally less physically
active than men. Women's (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become
a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has
attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at
women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and
physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific
approaches to explore. This book addresses this neglect by
providing a much-needed feminist, qualitative social analysis of
women and exercise. The contributors, drawn from across Europe and
North America, investigate the ways women experience exercise
within the context of the global fitness industry. All the authors
take a specifically feminist perspective in their analysis of the
fit, feminine body, exploring media images and the global branding
of fitness products, the relationship between exercise and fat, the
construction of physical activity within health discourse, and the
lived experience of the exercising body. The collection explores
the diversity of women's experiences of exercise in relation to
age, ethnicity and body size. The book is essential for anyone
interested in health promotion, sport and exercise or the social
and cultural study of gender and embodiment.
Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied
experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly
visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising,
and studies indicate that women are generally less physically
active than men. Women's (lack of) exercise, therefore, has become
a public concern, and physiological and psychological research has
attempted to develop more effective exercise programs aimed at
women. Yet women have a complex relationship with embodiment and
physical activity that is difficult for quantitative scientific
approaches to explore. This book addresses this neglect by
providing a much-needed feminist, qualitative social analysis of
women and exercise. The contributors, drawn from across Europe and
North America, investigate the ways women experience exercise
within the context of the global fitness industry. All the authors
take a specifically feminist perspective in their analysis of the
fit, feminine body, exploring media images and the global branding
of fitness products, the relationship between exercise and fat, the
construction of physical activity within health discourse, and the
lived experience of the exercising body. The collection explores
the diversity of women's experiences of exercise in relation to
age, ethnicity and body size. The book is essential for anyone
interested in health promotion, sport and exercise or the social
and cultural study of gender and embodiment.
Michel Foucault's work profoundly influences the way we think about
society, in particular how we understand social power, the self,
and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new
analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students,
exploring how Foucauldian theory can inform our understanding of
the body, domination, identity and freedom as experienced through
sport and exercise. Divided into three themed parts, this book
considers: Foucault's ideas and key debates Foucault's theories to
explore power relations, the body, identity and the construction of
social practices in sport and exercise how individuals make sense
of the social forces surrounding them, considering physical
activity, fitness and sport practices as expressions of freedom and
sites for social change. Accessible and clear, including useful
case studies helping to bring the theory to real-life, Foucault,
Sport and Exercise considers cultures and experiences in sports,
exercise and fitness, coaching and health promotion. In addition to
presenting established Foucauldian perspectives and debates, this
text also provides innovative discussion of how Foucault's later
work can inform the study and understanding of sport and the
physically active body.
Michel Foucault's work profoundly influences the way we think about
society, in particular how we understand social power, the self,
and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new
analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students,
exploring how Foucauldian theory can inform our understanding of
the body, domination, identity and freedom as experienced through
sport and exercise. Divided into three themed parts, this book
considers: Foucault's ideas and key debates Foucault's theories to
explore power relations, the body, identity and the construction of
social practices in sport and exercise how individuals make sense
of the social forces surrounding them, considering physical
activity, fitness and sport practices as expressions of freedom and
sites for social change. Accessible and clear, including useful
case studies helping to bring the theory to real-life, Foucault,
Sport and Exercise considers cultures and experiences in sports,
exercise and fitness, coaching and health promotion. In addition to
presenting established Foucauldian perspectives and debates, this
text also provides innovative discussion of how Foucault's later
work can inform the study and understanding of sport and the
physically active body.
This volume examines Gilles Deleuze's philosophy as it relates to
the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical
and practical examples of how the physically active body can be
examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity
using a Deleuzian perspective. Examining topics such as, the
formation of thought within a capitalist system; sport, exercise,
and dance as cultural arrangements; researching the physically
active body from a Deleuzian perspective; and Deleuze on Foucault,
this book shows ways of investigating the moving body as an agent
for initiating social change. This is fascinating reading for
students and researchers working in the fields of the Sociology of
Sport, Sport and Politics, and Sport and Social Theory.
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence
is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary
researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in
the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and
computer science collaborated to revise the tragic narrative of the
nineteenth-century ballet Giselle, allowing players to empower the
heroine for possible "feminine endings." The eight interrelated
chapters chronicle the origin, development, and fruition of the
project. Dancers, gamers, and computer specialists will all find
something original that will stimulate their respective interests.
Contributors: Vadim Bulitko, Wayne DeFehr, Christina Gier, Pirkko
Markula, Mark Morris, Sergio Poo Hernandez, Emilie St. Hilaire,
Nora Foster Stovel, Laura Sydora
With the popularity of such reality TV shows as So You Think You
Can Dance, dance has become increasingly visible within
contemporary culture. This shift brings the ballet body into
renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its
thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now
takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of
performance art, popular culture, and even fitness. The Evolving
Feminine Ballet Body provides a local perspective to enrich the
broader cultural narratives of ballet through historical,
socio-cultural, political, and artistic lenses, redefining what
many considered to be "high art." Scholars in gender studies,
folklore, popular culture, and cultural studies will be interested
in this collection, as well as those involved in the dance world.
Contributors: Kelsie Acton, Marianne I. Clark, Kate Davies, Lindsay
Eales, Pirkko Markula, Carolyn Millar, Jodie Vandekerkhove
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