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

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dc.contributor.authorPringle, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-24T20:23:29Z
dc.date.available2009-11-24T20:23:29Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractPleasure 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationPringle, R. (2009). Defamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasure. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(2), 211-234.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1123/ssj.26.2.211en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/3410
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHuman Kinetics, Incen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfSociology of Sport Journalen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://hk.humankinetics.com/SSJ/journalAbout.cfmen
dc.rightsThis article has been published in the journal: Sociology of Sport Journal. Used with permission.en
dc.subjectsportsen
dc.subjectrugbyen
dc.subjectpleasureen
dc.subjectsporten
dc.titleDefamiliarizing heavy-contact sports: A critical examination of rugby, discipline, and pleasureen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
pubs.begin-page211en_NZ
pubs.elements-id34211
pubs.end-page234en_NZ
pubs.issue2en_NZ
pubs.volume26en_NZ
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