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Sport Across Asia
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula capture the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures. These case studies bring together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, various area and post-colonial studies.
Fighting Scholars
‘Fighting Scholars’ offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book’s main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of ‘habitus’ is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book’s most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.
Diversity, equity and inclusion in sport and leisure
Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels. Although sports participation is, in some cases at least, becoming more open and meritocratic, at the management level it remains very homogenous; dominated by western, white, middle-aged, able-bodied men. This has implications both for how sport develops and how it is experienced by different participant groups, across all levels. Critical studies of sport have revealed that, rather than being a passive mechanism and merely reflecting inequality, sport, via social agents’ interactions wit...
Religion and the Body
This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.
Introducción al judo
La enseñanza del judo: una orientación a los métodos de enseñanza y al tratamiento didáctico de los contenidos
El judo en la educación física escolar
Una propuesta práctica para la enseñanza del judo en el contexto escolar español
Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment
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.
Psicología del Deporte Vol 29, nº 2, 2020
La Revista de Psicología del Deporte publica trabajos de carácter científico que estén realizados con rigor metodológico y que supongan una contribución al progreso en el ámbito de la Psicología del Deporte. Se recogen trabajos de naturaleza teórica, experimental, empírica y profesional con preferencia para aquellos que presenten cuestiones actuales y de relevancia científica y discutan planteamientos polémicos. Por lo demás, la interdisciplinariedad en el campo de la actividad física y deportiva es un objetivo de la Revista. En este número 29-2 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2020 se recogen varios artículos de investigación relacionados con el campo de la Psicología del Deporte.
Psicología del Deporte Vol 27, nº 1, 2018
La Revista de Psicología del Deporte fue fundada en 1992, y desde entonces su misión ha sido publicar trabajos originales de carácter científico que estén realizados con rigor metodológico y que supongan una contribución al progreso en el ámbito de la psicología del deporte. Se recogen trabajos de naturaleza teórica, experimental, empírica y profesional con preferencia para aquellos que presenten cuestiones actuales y de relevancia científica y discutan planteamientos polémicos. Por lo demás, la interdisciplinariedad en el campo de la actividad física y deportiva es un objetivo de la Revista.
