Browsing by Author "Pringle, Richard"
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Defamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasure
(Human Kinetics, Inc, 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 ... -
Doing the damage? An examination of masculinities and men's rugby experiences of pain, fear and pleasure
(The University of Waikato, 2003)Rugby union's prominent and historic link with males, within Aotearoa/New Zealand, has helped constitute it as a key signifier of masculinity. Feminist-inspired research suggests, however, that heavy-contact sports, like ... -
Fear and loathing on the sport field: Masculinities, social transformation and creative teaching strategies
(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 ... -
‘No rugby—no fear’: collective stories, masculinities and transformative possibilities in schools
(Routledge, 2008)This paper contributes to the development of a critical pedagogy in physical education (PE) by illustrating how ‘collective stories’ can be used within schools to help raise awareness of the relationships between sport, ...
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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee
(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
(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 ...
