Risk, Failure, Play takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through fight sport training. It intertwines personal experience and scholarly research, producing powerful reflections on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, and identity.
Risk, Failure, Play takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through fight sport training. It intertwines personal experience and scholarly research, producing powerful reflections on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, and identity.
Janet O'Shea is Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Author of At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage and the co-editor of the Routledge Dance Studies Reader, 2nd edition, her research focuses on corporeality, interdisciplinary exchange, and the politics of everyday life. She is a practitioner of Filipino martial arts, jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, and empowerment self-defense.
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* Introduction: Why do you do this? Experiencing Humanity in Combat Play * Chapter One: No Hard Feelings: Why Martial Arts Doesn't Mean what Violence Means * Chapter Two: The Magic Ring: How Combat Sport Transforms Meaning through Space and Movement * Chapter Three: Chess with Cardio: Finding the Meeting Point in Sport Fighting * Chapter Four: What's there to Lose? Vulnerability in Combat Sport * Chapter Five: On the Line: The Pleasure of Risk versus the Culture of Fear * Chapter Six: Fail Better: The Paradox of Defeat in Martial Arts Training * Chapter Seven: Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Perfection in Sport * Chapter Eight: Making Work Play: Rethinking Competitive Pleasure through Self-Defense Training * Conclusion: A Crisis of Play? * References * Index
* Introduction: Why do you do this? Experiencing Humanity in Combat Play * Chapter One: No Hard Feelings: Why Martial Arts Doesn't Mean what Violence Means * Chapter Two: The Magic Ring: How Combat Sport Transforms Meaning through Space and Movement * Chapter Three: Chess with Cardio: Finding the Meeting Point in Sport Fighting * Chapter Four: What's there to Lose? Vulnerability in Combat Sport * Chapter Five: On the Line: The Pleasure of Risk versus the Culture of Fear * Chapter Six: Fail Better: The Paradox of Defeat in Martial Arts Training * Chapter Seven: Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Perfection in Sport * Chapter Eight: Making Work Play: Rethinking Competitive Pleasure through Self-Defense Training * Conclusion: A Crisis of Play? * References * Index
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