Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian wellard

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  • GYM BODIES
    JAMES BRIGHTON / IAN WELLARD / AMY CLARK
    Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ‘gym goers’ and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces. Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues tha...

    $1,200.00

  • WHOSE BODY IS IT ANYWAY?
    IAN WELLARD
    There is a widespread interest in wellbeing, the healthy body and public health. However, there are also many simplistic and uncritical interpretations of what wellbeing or a healthy body should ‘look like’. By focusing upon wellbeing through examples taken from fitness-related activities, which are often considered unproblematic routes to achieving wellbeing and greater public...

    $1,160.00

  • RESEARCHING EMBODIED SPORT
    IAN WELLARD
    Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and cultural significance of embodied approaches to the study of sport, physical activities...

    $1,460.00

  • SPORT, FUN AND ENJOYMENT
    IAN WELLARD
    Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities. While much recent work has focused on the relationships between physical activity, health and wellbeing, much less attention has been paid to pleasure and fun, key aspects of our engagement with sport but not so easy to measure in t...

    $1,320.00

  • SPORT, MASCULINITIES AND THE BODY
    IAN WELLARD
    This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully - and the consequences of these actions play a significant part in the...

    $1,360.00