Politics and Pleasure: The Philosophy of Physical Education Revisited

Booth, Douglas

doi:10.1080/00336297.2009.10483607

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“…De Souza et al, 1998;Vescoui et al, 2008); I was particularly bewildered by recent endocrinological research that examines longitudinal changes in reproductive hormones in monkeys during exercise (Williams et al, 2001(Williams et al, , 2007. Reading across the disciplines, however, I was reminded of the value of kinesiology as a degree that introduces students to the range of disciplines across the social and biological sciences (Gill, 2007;Newell, 2007;Booth, 2009).…”

Section: Moving Bodies Beyond Borders: Imagining Transdisciplinaritymentioning

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Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Thorpe

2012

Sport, Education and Society

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In this paper I call for 'new forms of thinking and new ways of theorizing' the complex relations between the biological and social in sport and physical culture. I illustrate the inseparability of our biological and social bodies in sport and physical culture via the case of exercise and female reproductive hormones. Inspired by feminist biologists and philosophers of science such as Lynda Birke and Elizabeth Grosz, I describe my current research project in which I am seeking to create space for female exercisers' (as distinct from female athletes) voices about their embodied experiences of exercise-associated amenorrhea. I offer reflections from my ongoing study and reveal a number of dilemmas that emerge as I consider how we might bring biology*and particularly hormones*back into conversations about women's moving bodies in non-reductionist and nondeterminist terms. I conclude by advocating the need for more transdisciplinary approaches to help us move toward more multidimensional understandings of the body in sport and physical culture.

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Section: Moving Bodies Beyond Borders: Imagining Transdisciplinaritymentioning

confidence: 96%

Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Thorpe

2012

Sport, Education and Society

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“…The neoliberal influence on PE both locally and globally has been well documented by scholars in Oceania, Europe, Canada, and South America (Booth 2009;Macdonald 2011;Neira 2006). As Blum and Ullman (2012) have astutely noted, the neoliberal sway ethos of 'academic capitalism has entered classrooms at all levels, redefining everything from the interaction between teachers and students to the existence of academic disciplines' (367).…”

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confidence: 96%

From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

McCullick

2013

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

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Background: As the USA enters the second decade of the twenty-first century, it does so in a polarized political, social, and educational climate heretofore unseen in its relatively short history. Such a climate has implications for what role schools play in American society and especially how school-based physical education (SBPE) may need to reinvent how and what it contributes to the schooling of American children and, ultimately, the common good. Currently, SBPE receives verbal endorsement from the public and politicians yet little in the way of policy and financial support from legislators at national, state, and local levels. Aims: The purpose of this essay is to present a US-centered perspective on the current 'position' of SBPE and offer some modest (and hardly earth-shattering) suggestions for the immediate future from the perspective of a mid-career physical education teacher educator. Recommendations are made that may enable SBPE to make valuable contributions (perhaps even more that it currently does) and, hopefully, remove SBPE from the divided debate on what public schooling should include and how it should be provided.

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“…The absence of work in sports and leisure studies dealing with emotions, senses, bodily sensations and movement is highlighted by Keys (2013) and Booth (2009). Keys (2013) demonstrated the centrality of bodily sensations and emotions to the experience of sport.…”

Section: Towards a Visceral Approach To Footballmentioning

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“…The paper responds to recent calls to consider the visceral aspects of sport in leisure studies (Booth, 2009;Keys, 2013). Adopting a feminist, post-structuralist, geographical perspective, we illustrate how a visceral geographical approach -one that pays attention to people's emotional bonds and affective ties of active participation in sports -can provide new ways of thinking about football as a site of social engagement -and provide important clues to understanding the intertwining of both rurality and masculinity.…”

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“…Keys (2013) demonstrated the centrality of bodily sensations and emotions to the experience of sport. Booth (2009) thinks through the relationship between the biological and sociocultural dimensions of bodily judgements using affect theories. Likewise, feminist scholars who are re-theorising gender in relationship to embodiment are also advocating for approaches which also include the biological and sociocultural components of sports (see Evers, 2009;Waitt & Clifton, 2013;Waitt & Frazer, 2012;Waitt & Warren, 2008).…”

Section: Towards a Visceral Approach To Footballmentioning

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Winning and losing: the dynamics of pride and shame in the narratives of men who play competitive country football

Waitt

Clifton

2014

Leisure Studies

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Football is an important site in the construction and performance of masculinity. In this paper we focus on rugby league and/or Australian Rules Football in the Bega Valley District, News South Wales, Australia. This paper investigates 17 football life narratives of men who play in the competitive rural sports leagues of the Bega Valley. Drawing on the theoretical work of Elspeth Probyn, a visceral approach is used to critically attend to the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the bodies of men who play football. We argue that the affective and emotional relationships of the dynamics of pride and shame are found within spaces sustained by football. We argue that a feminist geographical perspective of the dynamics of pride and shame open up possibilities to challenge normative understandings of football bodies and spaces.

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Politics and Pleasure: The Philosophy of Physical Education Revisited

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

Winning and losing: the dynamics of pride and shame in the narratives of men who play competitive country football

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