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

      Pringle, Richard
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       10.1123/ssj.26.2.211
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      Pringle, R. (2009). Defamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasure. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(2), 211-234.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3410
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      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 examination. To promote and examine sport pleasure, I conducted semistructured interviews with seven passionate rugby players. Transcripts were analyzed via Foucauldian theorizing and revealed the inter-twined workings of technologies of dominance and self in the constitution of rugby pleasures. As a strategy to defamiliarize and disrupt habitual and uncritical accep-tance of rugby aggression, I argued that rugby pleasures were akin to sadomasochism. Rugby can be understood as a taboo-breaking game associated with transparent rela-tions of power connected with the pleasure induced from physical domination and the fear of pain.
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      2009
      Type
      Journal Article
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      Human Kinetics, Inc
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      This article has been published in the journal: Sociology of Sport Journal. Used with permission.
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