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Callused Surfaces
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Cauliflower Ear
Confrontational Tension
embodied experience in combat sports
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Field Note Excerpt
Fighter's Body
Forward Panic
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Heroic Life
homosocial relations
Husserlian Phenomenological Tradition
Jiu Jitsu
Learning Body Techniques
martial
Martial Artist
masculinity studies
mixed
Mixed Martial Artists
mma
Mouth Guard
Muay Thai
pain and injury research
phenomenological analysis
Postsecondary Education
Reflexive Body Techniques
Reverential Space
Ring Girls
sensory ethnography
technique
Thai Pads
Traditional Martial Arts
Vice Versa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415896283
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) 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. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters' training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Drawing from the philosophical phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book develops bodies-centered ontological and epistemological grounding for this study. Guided by such a position, it places bodies at the center of analysis of MMA and elucidates the embodied experience of pain and injury, and the sense and rhythms of fighting.
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.
