Pirkko Markula

Deleuze and the Physically Active Body

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines Gilles Deleuze's philosophy as it relates to the study of the physically active body. It explores theoretical and practical examples of how the physically active body can be examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity using a Deleuzian perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367728472
• ISBN-10: 0367728478
• Artikelnr.: 61117281

Autorenporträt

Pirkko Markula is Professor of Socio-cultural Studies of Physical Activity at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include social analyses of dance, exercise, and sport in which she has employed several theoretical lenses ranging from critical, cultural studies research to Foucault and Deleuze. She is also a contemporary dancer and choreographer.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Strata: The Formation of Thought within a Capitalist System
2. The Assemblage: Sport
Exercise and Dance as Cultural Arrangements
3. The Rhizome: Researching the Physically Active Body from a Deleuzian Perspective
4. The Body without Organs: A Purely Intensive Body
5. Becoming: Beyond Identity Politics
6. Affect: Understanding Force
7. Connecting: Deleuze on Foucault
8. Topology of Deterritorialization: Deleuzian Approach to the Moving Body and Social Change