Sports History and the Challenge of Physical Cultural Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Mark Falcous
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.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kass Gibson ◽  
Michael Atkinson

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted M. Butryn ◽  
Nicole M. LaVoi ◽  
Kerri J. Kauer ◽  
Tamar Z. Semerjian ◽  
Jennifer J. Waldron

Over the past decade, a growing number of scholars in sport psychology and sport sociology have begun forging inter- and transdiciplinary research lines that attempt to follow Ingham, Blissmer, and Wells Davidson’s (1998) call for a coming together of the sport sociological and sport psychological imaginations. This paper presents the results of a thematic analysis of the stories of five early-to midcareer academics who have lived at/through the boundaries of these two sub disciplines of Kinesiology. Following an introduction in which we attempt to situate the two subdisciplines within the larger field of Kinesiology, we present a thematic analysis of the five individual stories, and attempt to tie them to the politicized boundaries and related spaces of tensions faced by those wishing to do the kind of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary work advocated recently by the emerging areas of cultural sport psychology (CSP) and physical cultural studies (PCS).


2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Andrews ◽  
Michael L. Silk

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