Browsing by Author "Pringle, Richard"

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Defamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasure

Pringle, Richard (2009)

Pleasure can be regarded as a productive force in the constitution of the social sig-nificance of sport and desiring sport subjects. The organization and use of sport plea-sure has been a relatively marginalized topic of ...
Fear and loathing on the sport field: Masculinities, social transformation and creative teaching strategies

Pringle, Richard (Faculty of Education, Melbourne University, Australia, 2007)

The apparent links between sport and masculinities has generated critical concern from a number of educationalists, feminists and sport sociologists. These concerns have inspired the development of various pedagogical ...

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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee

Crocket, Hamish Robert (University of Waikato, 2012)

Links between instrumental rationality and problematic sporting subjectivities are well established (e.g., Beamish & Ritchie, 2006; Donnelly, 1996; Hughes & Coakley, 1991). In recent years, however, critical scholars have ...
Issues of power in a history of women's football in New Zealand: A Foucauldian genealogy

Cox, Barbara Douglas (University of Waikato, 2010)

In the majority of countries throughout the world, football is a highly popular sport for women and girls and one which continues to grow in playing numbers. According to FIFA, 26 million females were registered as football ...