scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Physical Cultural Studies: The Case of New Health Imperatives in Schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Rich
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Physical Cultural Studies ◽  
The Relationship

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.

Fatness, Fitness, and Feminism in the Built Environment: Bringing Together Physical Cultural Studies and Sociomaterialisms, to Study the “Obesogenic Environment”

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelyn Esmonde ◽  
Shannon Jette
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Obesogenic Environment ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Environmental Determinism ◽  
Physical Cultural Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Obesogenic Environments

In a climate where the “obesity epidemic” is a consistent focus within discussions of public health, the theory that the environment is one of the main drivers of the “obesity epidemic” is coming to the fore. In this paper, we look to the example of the “obesogenic environment” and the literature tracing the relationship between bodies, the environment, and physical activity as a vehicle through which to explore the potential for sociomaterialist theories within a feminist Physical Cultural Studies (PCS). First, we examine the ways in which the relationship between obesity and the environment is explicated in the academic literature on the topic, with a focus on how—or if— the environment is depicted as shaping inhabitants’ physical activity practices, or vice versa. We then explore how we might work to reconcile the paradoxical binary of environmental determinism and individual agency in the literature. More specifically, and following calls for PCS to move beyond anthropocentrism, we examine how the relationship between physically (in)active bodies and their environments might be complicated through engagement with sociomaterialisms. We conclude by outlining an approach to the study of “obesogenic environments” that combines Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) and feminist sociomaterialisms to maintain a focus on the politics of health and fatness in this neoliberal moment.

scholarly journals Beyond Boundaries: The Development and Potential of Ethnography in the Study of Sport and Physical Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kass Gibson ◽  
Michael Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Physical Cultural Studies

Ethnographic approaches to the study of sport and physical culture have developed primarily within physical education and kinesiology programs and are typically framed in dialogue with sociological theorizing of agency, structure, power, and inequality. Beginning with reference to anthropology and sociology, we review the emergence, development, and subsequent transdisciplinary travels of ethnographic study of sport and physical culture. In doing so, we underscore the importance of theory, context, and disciplinary tradition in the development of sporting ethnographies. We then critically outline the place of ethnography in physical cultural studies (PCS). Rather than exhuming existing debates about the originality and uniqueness of the PCS enterprise, we highlight the need to decenter the hyper-reflexive researcher and advocate for the consideration of pleasure in ethnographic studies to achieve the interventionist goals PCS protagonists set themselves.

scholarly journals Relationship between Peer and/or Friends’ Influence and Physical Activity among Elementary School Children

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (SI) ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merav Efrat
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Physical Activity Levels ◽  
Modifiable Factor ◽  
Peer Models ◽  
The Relationship

One modifiable factor linked to the current childhood obesity epidemic is inactivity among children. In hopes of providing researchers and practitioners with insight for combating the childhood obesity epidemic, the objective of this review is to synthesize the research on the association between peer and/or friends‟ influence and elementary school-aged children‟s physical activity behaviors. Six databases were searched to identify studies published within the last 20 years that assess the relationship between peer and/or friends‟ influence and elementary school-aged children‟s physical activity behaviors. Analysis of the 13 studies meeting these criteria identified four processes through which peers and/or friends may be associated with elementary school-aged children‟s physical activity behaviors: modeling, social support, popularity and victimization. While more research is needed in this area, this review suggests that there is an association between peer and/or friends‟ influence and elementary school-aged children‟s physical activity levels. Peer victimization may be negatively associated with children‟s physical activity levels. Peer support is positively correlated with children‟s physical activity. Among boys, popularity may be associated with physical activity. Finally, evidence suggests that peer models may be effective at enhancing physical activity among girls and children with low physical activity self-efficacy.

Oh Henry!: Physical Cultural Studies’ Critical Pedagogical Imperative

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan King-White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socioeconomic Context ◽  
Physical Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Public Pedagogy

Over the past 30 years Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) (Andrews, 2008) has grown in the United States. This form of radical inquiry has been heavily influenced by the British Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies. PCS research has focused on the various ways the corporeal has been a/effected by, and, indeed, (re)informs the contemporary socioeconomic context. However, while theoretical rigor has long been the norm in American PCS, I argue that the critical (public) pedagogy that radically contextual Cultural Studies has always called for has been a little slower in developing. As such, I will demonstrate how Henry Giroux’s influence in, on, and for critical pedagogy has more recently become and should be an essential component of PCS—particularly in our classrooms. As such, I will provide examples outlining how critical pedagogy informs my classroom practices to begin the dialogue about what constitutes good pedagogical work.

scholarly journals Contested terrain and terrain that contests: Donald Trump, golf’s environmental politics, and a challenge to anthropocentrism in Physical Cultural Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 910-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Millington ◽  
Brian Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Golf Course ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
Physical Cultural Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
New Social Movement

This article focuses on the case of Trump International Golf Links, Scotland (TIGLS), a golf course in Aberdeenshire that opened in 2012 after a lengthy and contentious application and development phase. Herein, we draw from a larger study of golf and the environment with the aim of assessing both the TIGLS case in itself and its implications for the study of sport/physical culture in general. The TIGLS case on the one hand provides an empirical example of the concept of ‘environmental managerialism’ – which is to say it exemplifies how governments, even with an ostensible commitment to sustainability in place, can still give approval to environmentally impactful development projects. It also provides an empirical example of a new social movement at work. Once the TIGLS development earned government approval, it was met by opposition during the construction phase by a group called ‘Tripping Up Trump’. On the other hand, we use the TIGLS case as a platform for a broader research commentary, one focused especially on the recently emergent Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) literature. Our contention at this time is that PCS as thus far conceived is anthropocentric in its scope; the important and necessary role that non-humans play in physical cultural contexts has largely been overlooked. We call for further consideration of how ‘new materialist’ perspectives can inform research on sport and other dimensions of physical culture.

Populäre Medienkulturen. Programmatische Positionen : Popular media cultures. Programmatic positions

SPIEL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-185
Author(s):  
Marcus S. Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the relationship between popular cultures, pop cultures and popular media cultures as transformative educational cultures. For this purpose, these three cultural formations are related to the themes of culture, everyday life, society, education, narration, experience and present. Apart from a few exceptions, such as in youth sociological works on cinema and education, in the context of media literacy discussions or in dealing with media education, educational dimensions of popular cultures and pop cultures have generally not been the focus of attention in media and cultural studies.

Dance and Ethnicity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Shay ◽  
Barbara Sellers-Young
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Transnational Politics ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Ethnic Category ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Active Contributor

Ethnic groups have been defined as people who share a common ethos based on ancestry, nation, language and other identity markers. This volume brings scholars from across the globe that have incorporated perspectives from critical and cultural studies in an investigation of what it means to define oneself in an ethnic category and how this category is performed and represented as an ethnicity. The essays in this volume engage the four themes of identity construction, local and transnational politics, appropriation and related exotification, and resistance that are part of the ongoing discourse in the relationship between dance and ethnicity. Cumulatively, the essays in their research approach and methodology document the change that has taken place in dance studies from the ethnic as an easily identified category based on biology and geography to ethnicity as a fluid concept and dance as an active contributor to the creation and negotiation of it.

Introduction Religion in France: Belief, identity and laïcité

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Special Number ◽  
French Cultural Studies ◽  
The Relationship

This is the introduction to a special number of French Cultural Studies devoted to religion in France, focusing on the issues of belief, identity and laïcité. The articles deal with social and cultural issues of secularity and identity, and also reach into philosophical argument and literary representation. They explore the relationship between France and Islam, issues of Jewish and Catholic heritage, the philosophical issues of belief and non-belief, and the historical roots of French secularism and the search for ways of living together.

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