Feminism and the Physical Cultural Studies Assemblage: Revisiting Debates and Imagining New Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Amy Marfell
2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Karen Barbour ◽  
Toni Bruce

In this paper we explore the potential of physical cultural studies for collaborative, interdisciplinary, theoretically-informed, reflexive research on the physically active female body. We use the metaphors of “wandering and wondering” to interrogate our experiences of movement within and across physical cultural fields and academic borders. Grounded in an ethnographic narrative approach, we revisit the ways in which different aspects of our identities were highlighted during our waka ama, snowboarding and basketball experiences. Drawing upon feminist readings of Bourdieu’s work, we challenged each other to reflect critically upon previously unquestioned or unexplored aspects of our subjectivities. While the paper focuses on the results of these discussions, we also offer insights into the collaborative process. Ultimately we argue that sharing narratives of our experiences and exploring them further with theory offers a good place to begin new interdisciplinary conversations that may push physical cultural studies research in new directions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Rich

This paper explores how we might better engage with pedagogy as a feature of the growing field of Physical Cultural Studies (Andrews, 2006). It is promulgated that pedagogy and physical culture, as disciplines, may benefit from a much stronger dialogical engagement. In progressing these discussions, the paper draws on the case of the current interest in what is putatively described as a childhood obesity epidemic, to illustrate how physical cultural practices relating to “health” produce public pedagogy which speaks to a complex interplay of political, social and technological relationships.


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Т. Tebegenov ◽  
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G. Esirkepova ◽  
М. Aitimov ◽  
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This article reveals in a new way the relationship of Abay's worldview with modern philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, political science; from a scientific and theoretical point of view, the harmony of the poet’s works with the works of religious educators of Islam is substantiated. Along with this, the article explores the image of the prototype in new literary works about Abai, the objectivity of the description of Kazakh life in them. Abaeology is a comprehensive branch of the study of the spiritual culture of the Kazakh people, so modern Abaeology is one of the relevant topics. A set of new studies is needed to study the classical literary heritage of Abay and its traditions from the point of view of the psychology of art. The article touches on the problems of the popularity of Abay's works among the foreign Kazakh diaspora, developing a program, the scientific and methodological foundations of studying Abay's work in their schools. New directions of research in this area and contemporary topical problems of Abaystudies are determined.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. e59271
Author(s):  
Vitor Hugo Marani ◽  
Ariane Boaventura da Silva Sá ◽  
Larissa Michelle Lara

O presente manuscrito refere-se à tradução do texto introdutório à obra Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies, coletânea organizada por Michael Silk (Universidade de Bournemouth, Inglaterra), David Andrews (Universidade de Maryland, Estados Unidos) e Holly Thorpe (Universidade de Waikato, Nova Zelândia). A referida obra é composta por 58 capítulos, sistematizados em nove seções, com total de 610 páginas em língua inglesa, reunindo 89 pesquisadores/as de diferentes países, com o objetivo de apresentar o estado da arte do Physical Cultural Studies/PCS (Estudos Culturais Físicos). Como desdobramento dos Estudos Culturais britânicos e como complemento à Sociologia do Esporte, o PCS preocupa-se em identificar, entender e intervir nas relações de poder materializadas na complexa gama de expressões da cultura física (como esporte, fitness, dança, lazer, entre outras), a partir de análises contextuais da fisicalidade atravessada por marcadores sociais de diferença. É a partir dessa introdução que aspectos históricos, epistemológicos e metodológicos do PCS são lançados e que se apresentam esforços para uma definição desse campo. Compõe também a introdução a sistematização do ato de ‘fazer PCS’, por meio de oito dimensões (empírica, contextual, transdisciplinar, teórica, política, qualitativa, autorreflexiva e pedagógica). Por fim, com a referida tradução, espera-se favorecer o acesso da comunidade acadêmica brasileira ao PCS, em seus aspectos fundamentais, por meio de temas notadamente voltados ao corpo e às relações e efeitos do poder social que atravessam a cultura física.


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