scholarly journals Una visión histórica de las artes marciales mixtas en China

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
William Acevedo ◽  
Mei Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
First Century ◽  
Combat Sports ◽  
Mixed Martial Arts ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Bruce Lee ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century

Mixed martial arts (MMA) has become one of the fastest-growing combat sports in the twenty-first century, drawing millions of Pay-Per-View spectators since the inception of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 1993. Popular conceptions have credited the creation of MMA to Bruce Lee, a Chinese-American actor and martial artist who became an icon in the 1970s and who is still considered by many as a revolutionary figure in the field. This paper will present, in chronological order, examples of ancient Chinese martial arts concepts preceding the creation of modern MMA.

From Linear History to Discursive Constellation

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-128
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
First Century ◽  
Combat Sports ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter argues that any attempt to construct a linear history of martial arts in media and popular culture as it exploded after the 1970s cannot but fail. The sheer proliferation of martial arts images, themes, texts, and practices precludes easy linear narrativization. Accordingly, Chapter 5 argues for the need to move ‘From Linear History to Discursive Constellation’ in our approach to martial arts in media and popular culture. The chapter attempts to establish the main discursive contours that appeared and developed through the 1980s—a decade in which ninjas and Shaolin monks explode onto the cultural landscape. This is followed by attention to the 1990s, in which three major events took place in the same year: the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the Wu-Tang Clan’s release of their enormously popular album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), and the appearance on children’s television screens around the world of ‘The Power Rangers’—all of which took place in 1993. The chapter then attempts to track the major discursive tendencies and contours of martial arts aesthetics through the first decade of the twenty-first century, up to the mainstreaming of combat sports in more recent years.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF COMPETITIVE ACTIVITY HIGH RANKED FIGHTERS OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Sergii Latyshev ◽  
Mykola Latyshev ◽  
Olga Mavropulo ◽  
Igor Maksimenko ◽  
Yuri Tkachenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Combat Sports ◽  
Mixed Martial Arts ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Weight Group ◽  
Weight Category ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship ◽  
Competitive Activity ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
Competitive Activities

Mixed martial arts - a sport, which is a combination of many techniques, schools and direction of combat sports. Nowadays, mixed martial arts are the most popular and spectacular sport of all combat sports. Analysis of competitions performances is an important aspect of training athletes. The quantitative characteristics of competitive activity make it possible to model the training process at different stages of fighters. Aim of the research – to analyze the quantitative characteristics of competitive activity of high ranked fighters. All matches of Mixed martial arts Russian Cup in 2018 were analyzed: 84 preliminary and 8 final fights (for 1 place) in all weight categories.  The following quantitative characteristics of the competitive activities of high ranked fighters were analyzed in the study: average fight time; average fight time in the standing and ground positions; distribution of fights by types of victory; activity, defense and reliability performing takedowns for each weight category. Also, a comparative analysis was carried out with the competitive activity characteristics of the top athletes from the Ultimate Fighting Championship rating for each weight group. These data can be used as model when planning the training process of both young and qualified athletes.

Liberal Order in the Twenty-First Century: Searching for Eunomia Once Again

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Amichai Magen
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Liberty ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Good Order ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Unique Potential

Adherents of economic and political liberty are again compelled to ask fundamental questions about the nature and prospects of good order (or Eunomia). This article: (1) offers a quaternary definition of the concept of “order;” (2) contends that Eunomia is essentially about the creation, adaptation, and protection of the conditions necessary for human beings to live lives that are free from fear so as to maximize each individual’s unique potential for human flourishing; and (3) outlines an evolutionary understanding of Eunomia, whereby contemporary liberal orders represent the cumulative outcome of three sets of elite-selected “wins” over illiberal ones. To survive and thrive in the twenty-first century liberalism must once again contest and defeat rival orders.

Absolute Capitalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Market Relations

Although neoliberalism is widely recognized as the central political-ideological project of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is a term that is seldom uttered by those in power. Behind this particular ruse lies a deeply disturbing, even hellish, reality. Neoliberalism can be defined as an integrated ruling-class political-ideological project, associated with the rise of monopoly-finance capital, the principal strategic aim of which is to embed the state in capitalist market relations. Hence, the state's traditional role in safeguarding social reproduction—if largely on capitalist-class terms—is now reduced solely to one of promoting capitalist reproduction. The goal is nothing less than the creation of an absolute capitalism. All of this serves to heighten the extreme human and ecological destructiveness that characterizes our time.

Mary and Modernity

2019 ◽  
pp. 530-545
Author(s):  
Charlene Spretnak
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Mechanistic Worldview ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Catholic Church

Because the Reformation was unfavourably disposed toward expressions of the cosmological, mystical, symbolic, and aesthetic dimensions of the Virgin Mary’s spiritual presence, and because secular versions of several concepts in the Reformation became central to emergent modernity, the work of modernizing the Catholic Church at Vatican II resulted in streamlining Mary’s presence and meaning in favour of a more literal, objective, and strictly text-based version, which is simultaneously more Protestant and more modern. In the decades since Vatican II, however, the modern, mechanistic worldview has been dislodged by discoveries in physics and biology indicating that physical reality, the Creation, is composed entirely of dynamic interrelatedness. This perception also informs the Incarnation, the Resurrection, Redemption, transubstantiation, and the full spiritual presence of Mary with its mystical and cosmological dimensions. Perhaps the rigid dividing lines at Vatican II will evolve into new possibilities in the twenty-first century regarding Mary and modernity.

Modern-World Archaeology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Orser
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Antecedents

Historical archaeology has grown exponentially since its inception. By the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, practitioners of the field had conducted research throughout the world in locales only imagined in the mid-twentieth century. The spread of historical archaeology in Europe, Asia, and Africa—and other places with long, rich documentary histories—has meant that two senses of ‘historical archaeology’ now exist. The creation of modern-world archaeology seeks to define an archaeology of the post-Columbian world as an archaeology explicitly engaged in investigating the historical antecedents of our present age. This chapter explains the rationale behind the creation of modern-world archaeology, outlines some of its central tenets, and provides a brief example of one subject of relevance to the field.

scholarly journals Lynching, Memory and Memorials

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Jerzy Sobieraj
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Memorial Sites

This article touches upon three important topics: lynching, memory, and memorialization-looked at from the perspective of the twenty-first century. As far as lynching is concerned, it focuses on a significant growth of interest in this painful historical, social, and political issue. In the context of lynching it discusses memory and the process of memorialization, sometimes seen as a relatively new trend, and the creation of memorial sites, such as the American lynching memorials in Duluth, Minnesota and Montgomery, Alabama.

scholarly journals O espetáculo das artes marciais. O que estamos comprando?

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (283) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Luiz Felipe Machado Pinto ◽  
Marcelo Moreira Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Mixed Martial Arts ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship

O Canal Combate apresentando-se como o maior veiculador de conteúdo voltado às artes marciais no Brasil, se consolida como o grande representante midiático do público interessado pela temática. Assim, os conceitos gerados e a visão proferida sobre as artes marciais, influencia diretamente a visão de seus espectadores e consumidores. O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar a grade de programação semanal do Canal Combate e traçar inferências em relação ao real escopo do mesmo. O estudo analisou sua grade de programação compreendida entre o dia 20/07/2020 e 26/07/2020. Os resultados demonstraram que 34% do conteúdo veiculado pelo canal destina-se a lutas do Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), seguido de 19% de anúncios publicitários. O canal combate caracterizou-se como um promotor de lutas de Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), em grande parte relacionadas à empresa UFC, que possui em seu cerne o espetáculo para fins de consumo.

From Exilic to Mobile Identities: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and the Cosmopolitanization of Contemporary Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Zamorano Llena
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
First Century ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Physical Conditioning ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literature Of Migration

The theme of displacement and a view of exile that differs from traditional definitions of the concept and its associations with feelings of loss and nostalgia are a constant in Colum McCann's oeuvre. Images of flight and fleeing are recurrent in his work and underscore the centrality that mobility occupies in his fictional world, in which these flights are, not infrequently, a metaphorical act of escapism from material reality and physical conditioning. However, mobility in Let the Great World Spin is articulated as a characteristically twenty-first century phenomenon in its emphasis on how interconnectivity beyond differences, especially in the form of transnational exchanges, characterizes contemporary societies and shapes individual realities and identities. This essay contends that this transnational interconnectivity is not only foregrounded at the narrative level, thematically and in terms of narrative structure; McCann's tangentially framing of this novel within American post-9/11 fiction, while formally echoing an Irish literature of exile and thematically relating to an Irish literature of migration and fictions of the global, suggests the process in which new imaginative realities and identities are shaped from a cosmopolitan outlook that promotes the synergetic dialogue between national and transnational differences in the creation of a cosmopolitanized reality.

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