Risk, Failure, Play

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-087153-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Risk, Failure, Play illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Author Janet OâShea shows how play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and demonstrates that physical play, with its immediacy and heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. Risk, Failure, Play also demonstrates the many ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. Risk, Failure, Play intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, as well as theories of play and competition in order to produce insights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us and challenges us to reimagine our social reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Shea

O'Shea, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Why do you do this? Experiencing Humanity in Combat Play

- Chapter One: No Hard Feelings: Why Martial Arts Doesn't Mean what Violence Means

- Chapter Two: The Magic Ring: How Combat Sport Transforms Meaning through Space and Movement

- Chapter Three: Chess with Cardio: Finding the Meeting Point in Sport Fighting

- Chapter Four: What's there to Lose? Vulnerability in Combat Sport

- Chapter Five: On the Line: The Pleasure of Risk versus the Culture of Fear

- Chapter Six: Fail Better: The Paradox of Defeat in Martial Arts Training

- Chapter Seven: Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Perfection in Sport

- Chapter Eight: Making Work Play: Rethinking Competitive Pleasure through Self-Defense Training

- Conclusion: A Crisis of Play?

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Janet O'Shea is Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Author of At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage and the co-editor of the Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd edition, her research focuses on corporeality, interdisciplinary exchange, and the politics of everyday life. She is a practitioner of Filipino martial arts, jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, and empowerment self-defense.