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Fighting Scholars

Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
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'Fighting Scholars' offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book's main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of 'habitus' is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book's most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loic Wacquant's 'Body and Soul': the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.

Author Biography:

Raul Sanchez Garcia is associate professor in the Department of Theory, Organization and Recreation at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Dale C. Spencer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.
Release date Australia
September 1st, 2013
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Dale C. Spencer
  • Edited by Raul Sanchez Garcia
Illustrations
15+ black and white illustrations
Pages
234
Dimensions
153x229x26
ISBN-13
9780857283320
Product ID
21047959

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