Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health: Bodies Out of Sight

ISBN-13: 9780367581985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Laura Azzarito

Opis

Social Justice in Globalized Fitness and Health draws attention to how neoliberal ideologies impacting the body overlook the intersection of class, gender/sex, and race that informs how young, ethnic minority people embody and negotiate normative discourses of fitness and health.

Recenzje

"Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction

1. "My fault?" Neoliberal globalization, market-driven education, and the erasure of difference in fitness and health

2. Who am I? The ethnic self in the Western eye

3. Interrupting the racialization process through the lens of postcolonialism, critical race theory (CRT), and post-feminism

4. A Body Curriculum in school PE for enhancing body encounters and cultural resistance

5. Bodies out of sight on stage: "you have to love yourself no matter what"

6. Toward critical public pedagogies: the power of art exhibitions

7. Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Laura Azzarito is Program Director of the Graduate Program in Physical Education Pedagogy and Physical Culture and Co-Director of the Visual Research Center for Education, Art, & Social Change at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.