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Pierre Bourdieu And Physical Culture
Hardback Edition: 1
The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cognate disciplines that can be classified as physical culture studies. Concepts such as field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence have been used as theoretical tools by scholars and
students looking to understand the nature and purpose of sport, leisure, physical education and human movement within wider society.
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Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture is the first book to focus on the significance of Bourdieus work for, and in, physical culture. Bringing together the work of leading and emerging international researchers, it introduces the core concepts in Bourdieus thought and work, and presents a series of fascinating demonstrations of the application of his theory to physical culture studies. A concluding section discusses the inherent difficulties of choosing and using theory to understand the world around us. By providing an in-depth and multi-layered example of how theory can be used across the many and varied components of sport, leisure, physical education and human movement, this book should help all serious students and researchers in physical culture to better understand the importance of social theory in their work.
Lisa Hunter researches and teaches in movement, subjectivities, epistemology, research methods (participatory activist research, visual, narrative, sensory, (auto)ethnography), pedagogy, sex/gender/sexualities, and fields of sport/leisure, health, and education.
Wayne Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Wayne drew on Bourdieu's framework for his doctoral thesis and subsequent published articles.
Elke Emerald is a Senior Lecturer in The School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia. Elke's current research investigates the impacts of research on the researcher.
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Pages : 200
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2014-11-18
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL