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Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies

Author : Jesper Andreasson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319972383
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies written by Jesper Andreasson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates extreme sports, defined as sports in which athletes challenge and transgress societal perceptions of what is humanly possible to achieve, in terms of physical training and bodily development/performance. Situated within a growing body of literature analysing the impact of new training trends on an individual’s body, identity, lifestyle and perception of his/her social surroundings, Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies focuses on the gendered and embodied experiences of bodybuilding, Ironman triathlon, and mixed martial arts. Through their ethnographic analysis, Andreasson and Johansson present a unique and updated account of the increasing phenomenon of extreme sports and extreme bodies in contemporary Western society, grounded in the sociology of sport, body studies and embodiment literature.

Transgressive Bodies

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317007395
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Transgressive Bodies written by Niall Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.

Transforming Bodies

Author : H. Steinhoff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137493798
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Bodies written by H. Steinhoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.

Extreme Bodies

Author : Francesca Alfano Miglietti
Publisher : Skira Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788884913791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Bodies written by Francesca Alfano Miglietti and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The body described in this book is a theoretical subject in which the connection between art and the categories of excess are explored. The author provides an analysis of the way the body has long been manipulated by its relationship with cultural, religious and political institutions, to the point of self-mutilation. What is being explored is the body as a construction of forms of discourse, obligations and mechanisms of control. The result is a mapping of the most significant iconographies of this special body that has always inhabited art. It is typically contemporary to choose a body that is at once subject and object of a multitude of events that suggest continual references to classical iconography, emphasising the numerous analogies and affinities between the experiences of contemporary artists and the most traditional Western iconography." "This thought-provoking volume presents a fierce and sophisticated vision, a remarkable sense of the spirit of the time, the representation of macrocosms which include methods, trends, acts of rebellion, mutations and images of humanity undergoing transformation."--BOOK JACKET.

Bodies of Constant Width

Author : Horst Martini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030038688
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Constant Width written by Horst Martini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive monograph to thoroughly investigate constant width bodies, which is a classic area of interest within convex geometry. It examines bodies of constant width from several points of view, and, in doing so, shows surprising connections between various areas of mathematics. Concise explanations and detailed proofs demonstrate the many interesting properties and applications of these bodies. Numerous instructive diagrams are provided throughout to illustrate these concepts. An introduction to convexity theory is first provided, and the basic properties of constant width bodies are then presented. The book then delves into a number of related topics, which include Constant width bodies in convexity (sections and projections, complete and reduced sets, mixed volumes, and further partial fields) Sets of constant width in non-Euclidean geometries (in real Banach spaces, and in hyperbolic, spherical, and further non-Euclidean spaces) The concept of constant width in analysis (using Fourier series, spherical integration, and other related methods) Sets of constant width in differential geometry (using systems of lines and discussing notions like curvature, evolutes, etc.) Bodies of constant width in topology (hyperspaces, transnormal manifolds, fiber bundles, and related topics) The notion of constant width in discrete geometry (referring to geometric inequalities, packings and coverings, etc.) Technical applications, such as film projectors, the square-hole drill, and rotary engines Bodies of Constant Width: An Introduction to Convex Geometry with Applications will be a valuable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students studying convex geometry and related fields. Additionally, it will appeal to any mathematicians with a general interest in geometry.

Convex Bodies

Author : Rolf Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521352207
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Convex Bodies written by Rolf Schneider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to convex bodies giving full proofs for some deeper theorems which have never previously been brought together.

Convex Bodies: The Brunn–Minkowski Theory

Author : Rolf Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107601010
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Convex Bodies: The Brunn–Minkowski Theory written by Rolf Schneider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete presentation of a central part of convex geometry, from basics for beginners, to the exposition of current research.

Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies

Author : Jesper Andreasson
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
ISBN 13 : 1863352422
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies written by Jesper Andreasson and published by Common Ground Research Networks. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has doping, both as a practice and a social phenomenon, been approached largely as a question of context: sport or fitness? Individuals may use substances to enhance sporting performance or within the framework of gym and fitness culture to create a perfect body. But clearly, people who dope are not bound to a singular context. It is quite the opposite, as individuals weave between and move across various settings in their trajectories to and from doping, as goals, identities, ambitions, and lifestyles change over time. Still, these stark categorizations often made in public discourse – and reinforced by scholars – have continued to ignore these lived experiences and limited our understanding of doping. Building on data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork, studies of online doping communities, and in-depth case studies, this book embraces the challenge of moving beyond traditional and historical doping dichotomies – such as those of sport or fitness, online or offline, pleasure or harm, masculinity or femininity, and health or harm – and, in a sociologically informed analysis, it develops new terminology to understand trajectories to and from doping. It argues there are multiple ways to understand doped bodies and doping practices, and that we must approach these questions from the perspective of both/and rather than either/or. By imploding these divisions, it offers updated and nuanced ways of both empirically and theoretically rethinking doping use and experiences attached to the practice.

Learning Bodies

Author : Malou Juelskjaer
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771246231
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Learning Bodies written by Malou Juelskjaer and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the body a mere container of learning processes? Or can we, in a productive way, develop an approach to learning that includes learning as a bodily phenomenon? The authors all work with the development or refinement of theories of 'learning bodies,' and in this anthology they present the state of the art to anybody with an interest in current scientific discussions about the interplay between body, movement and learning. A full understanding of learning in all its complexity requires that the body is taken into account - regardless of whether we are dealing with the neurological foundations of learning processes, skill acquisition, mental health and illness, aesthetics or the physical setting where the learning takes place. Body, movement and senses (in short: corporeality), provide the necessary experiences for change and development in relation to life-long learning. This anthology presents a range of theoretical approaches to learning; neuroscience, psychiatry, sociology, psychology, phenomenology and pedagogy. By presenting this range of approaches, the anthology raises a central question in the philosophy of science: the need for incorporation of different approaches to achieve further insights. The first section of the book, The Learning Body, concerns the learning process from a psychological, neuroscience and phenomenological point of view. In part two, The Encultured Body, gender and aesthetics will be analysed in relation to the body and the community of practice. The third section, The Educated Body, sheds light on various aspects of the body in educational contexts and different body-related conditions for learning. The anthology is of particular interest to researchers and students of education, development, and psychology, and to those interested in body and movement, both biomedical and the relation to social science and the humanities.

Bodies in Protest

Author : Steve Kroll-Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814747523
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Bodies in Protest written by Steve Kroll-Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question—are certain diseases real?—lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma—literally deathlike air—came into popular use, only to be later dismissed as medically unsound by Louis Pasteur. While controversy has long swirled in the United States around such illnesses as chronic fatigue syndrome and Epstein-Barr virus, no disorder has been more aggressively contested than environmental illness, a disease whose symptoms are distinguished by an extreme, debilitating reaction to a seemingly ordinary environment. The environmentally ill range from those who have adverse reactions to strong perfumes or colognes to others who are so sensitive to chemicals of any kind that they must retreat entirely from the modern world. Bodies in Protest does not seek to answer the question of whether or not chemical sensitivity is physiological or psychological, rather, it reveals how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to construct lay accounts of their misery. The environmentally ill are not only explaining their bodies to themselves, however, they are also influencing public policies and laws to accommodate the existence of these mysterious illnesses. They have created literally a new body that professional medicine refuses to acknowledge and one that is becoming a popular model for rethinking conventional boundaries between the safe and the dangerous. Having interviewed dozens of the environmentally ill, the authors here recount how these people come to acknowledge and define their disease, and themselves, in a suddenly unlivable world that often stigmatizes them as psychologically unstable. Bodies in Protest is the dramatic story of human bodies that no longer behave in a manner modern medicine can predict and control.

Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses

Author : Royal Institution of Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses written by Royal Institution of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health

Author : Elizabeth Ettorre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317155831
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health written by Elizabeth Ettorre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'. Illustrating the importance of contextualizing the body as a cultural entity, this book demonstrates that the spaces and boundaries between healthy bodies are becoming more diverse than ever before. The volumes international team of scholars engage with a range of issues surrounding the cultural construction of the body as a site of health and illness. As such, it will be of interest not only to sociologists, especially sociologists of health, but also to scholars of media and communication studies as well as cultural theorists.

Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Of Bodies, and of Mans Soul written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two Treatises: in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule, is Looked Into

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Two Treatises: in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule, is Looked Into written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1645 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two Treatises. In the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked Into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules

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Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Two Treatises. In the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked Into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

De Caelo

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book De Caelo written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bodies in the Making

Author : Nancy N. Chen
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780971254633
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Bodies in the Making written by Nancy N. Chen and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies. Establishing links among these varied practices, the contributors illuminate the dramatic and widespread changes that have taken place across generations in attitudes towards the relation of the body to the mind, to agency and to subjectivity. Bodies in the Making also addresses a paradox that has shaped recent body modification debates. Although physical transformations are usually experienced as self-expressive and libratory, they are frequently understood to be socially determined, economically driven and culturally enmeshed. Contributors to the volume engage this contradiction directly, exploring ways in which diverse body practices are capable of subverting power while also at times re-inscribing it.