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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Physical Cultural Studies"”.
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Between memory and movement: A dancing-womanist-scholar in, not of, kinesiology
Because kinesiology is historically linked to physical education, two specific aspects of physical activity-exercise and sport-currently receive primary attention from kinesiologists (Charles, 1994). Consequently, kinesiology has not fully embraced dance, considered a non- exercise/non-sport based …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
… affordable, well-built housing and plentiful cultural attractions associated with city life. The book catalyzed an early twentieth-century international movement for the promotion and construction of garden cities. Howard’s garden city remains a highly influential context in the history of …
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'Right to the Active City': Public Recreation and Urban Governance in Baltimore
… public health, kinesiology, sociology, urban studies and physical cultural studies, and simultaneously seeks to promote the co-production of research that can be engaged by and with those involved in the processes of public recreation. In short, this research attempts to better grasp the lived …
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Worlding through popular culture: Sport as a race/ethno making project in Korean America
… based on biological difference, phenotype, and cultural difference to sort out “unwanted people.” I politicize sport to theorize Asian racialization in sport and physical culture. This means two things: (1) understanding sport provokes historical understanding of U.S. identity politics and (2) …
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The Everyday Breakaway: Participant Perspectives of Everyday Life Within a Sport for Development and Peace Program
… By providing space for cyclists to resist, rich cultural and historical understandings of the underpinning mechanisms influencing their identities, processes, and actions are uncovered. Such agency does not negate the hegemonic system exclusively bound to my participants, but rather acknowledges …
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Moving Toward Understanding: Negotiating Survival and Wellbeing while Living in Poverty
… and systemic means, and the role that physical activity and movement has on the lives of the poor. In this dissertation, I interrogate how macro level power structures impact the everyday, micro level lives of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. The data collected in this work …