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  • Poststructuralist Methodologies for Physical Activity Research

    Theory and Practice of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour

    by Pirkko Markula, Jim Denison ...
    Series series Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity
    Drawing on the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Latour, this book opens up a poststructuralist approach to sport, exercise, and dance research. It examines how to incorporate both articulable expression and visible material elements – theoretically and methodologically – to study the force of the moving body in practice.This book employs critical concepts including the dispositive, assemblage, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Deleuze and the Physically Active Body

    by Pirkko Markula ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    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 ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body

    Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies

    by David Andrews, Mary Louise Adams, Kiri Baxter, Douglas Booth, Kyle S Bunds, Michael D. Giardina, Mariana Clark, Simon C Darnell0, Samantha Frost1, Simone Fullagar2, Pirkko Markula3, Mary G. McDonald4, Jennifer Sterling5, Christopher McLeod6, Matthew G. Hawzen7, Richard Pringle8, Oliver Rick9, Jacob J. Bustad0, Samantha King1, Shannon Leigh Jette2, Katelyn Esmonde3, Carolyn Pluim4, Gavin Weedon5 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Foucault, Sport and Exercise

    Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self

    by Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle ...
    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 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body

    Edited by Pirkko Markula, Marianne I. Clark ...
    Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. 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 fitness. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Endurance Running

    A Socio-Cultural Examination

    Edited by William Bridel, Pirkko Markula, Jim Denison ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Women and Exercise

    The Body, Health and Consumerism

    Edited by Eileen Kennedy, Pirkko Markula ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    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 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD