Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment : Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

ISBN-13: 9780415896283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 199 str.

Dale Spencer

Opis

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Phenomenology and Bodies  3. Time, Space and Sense of Fighting  4. Difference and Bodies  5. Being a MMA Fighter  6. Habit(us), Body Techniques and Body Callusing  7. Narratives of Despair, Loss and Failure: Pain, Injury and Masculinities  8. Emotions and Violence  9. Homosociality, (Homo)eroticism and Dueling Practice  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Dale C. Spencer is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. His interests include embodiment, emotions, violence and victimization. He has published in such journals as Body and Society, Punishment and Society and Criminal Law and Philosophy. He is co-editor of Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions (University of Toronto Press, 2011) and co-author of Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives (University of British Columbia Press.