Foucault, sport and exercise : power, knowledge and transforming the self / Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle
- Author:
- Markula, Pirkko, 1961-
- Published:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Pringle, Richard, 1964-
- Contents:
- Power, knowledge and the self : introduction to Foucauldian theorising -- An introduction to Michel Foucault : his work, life and effect -- Technologies of dominance : power, discourses and the disciplined bodies -- Foucauldian interpretations of the body and lived experiences in sport and exercise -- Knowledge and truth : discursive construction of the fit and healthy body -- Exercise : disciplined into docile bodies -- Sport and the discursive construction of gendered bodies -- A discursive analysis of rugby experiences and the construction of gendered identities -- Aesthetics of ethical self-stylisation -- The technologies of the self -- Aesthetic self-stylisation : mindful fitness as practice of freedom -- The ethics of self-care : the academic self as a work of art -- Ethical games of truth : critical pedagogy and collective stories.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0415358620 (hbk)
0415358639 (pbk.)
020300650X (ebk)
9780415358620
9780415358637
9780203006504 (ebk) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-244) and index.
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