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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Physical culture"”.
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Women and physical culture in modern Poland
… and "feminism" in the construction of women's physical culture in modern Poland from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. The basic premise of this work is that unlike most western countries where sportswomen have typically been marginalized in their athletic …
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Physical Culture and the Embodied Soviet Subject, 1921-1939: Surveillance, Aesthetics, Spectatorship
My thesis examines visual and written culture of the interwar Soviet Union dealing with the body as an object of public observation, appreciation, and critique. It explores how the need to construct new Soviet subjectivities was realised through the figure of the body. I explore the representation …
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Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964
… ethic, but also were well-versed in bourgeois culture and taste, heightening contradictions stemming from Stalin’s implementation of the Big Deal. The Cold War informed a great many of these cultural imperatives, and Khrushchev’s stated goal from 1956 onward was to directly compete with the …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
This study investigates the importance of physical culture in modern Laos, and the variety of local, regional and global forces that have shaped it. 'Body work' practices, including sport, physical education and military training, and the ideas on which they are based, have placed gender and the …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
This study investigates the importance of physical culture in modern Laos, and the variety of local, regional and global forces that have shaped it. 'Body work' practices, including sport, physical education and military training, and the ideas on which they are based, have placed gender and the …
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Traditional Practices and Negotiating Settler Colonial Society: An Exploration of Sport and Physical Culture Within the Siksika Nation
Understanding how sport and physical culture can support decolonization and cultural resurgence, the Siksika Nation plans to build a sports hall of fame and history exhibit to share their stories of sport and achievement. Currently, most halls of fame lack Indigenous representation and fail to …
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Worlding through popular culture: Sport as a race/ethno making project in Korean America
… 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) identity formation is a consistently moving force, and therefore sport—along with U.S. multicultural …
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Indian club swinging in nineteenth and twentieth-century India and England
… exercise. Despite their obscure status in modern culture, the clubs were one of the most recognizable items of fitness equipment in nineteenth and early-twentieth century India and England. Originating in India, the clubs’ nineteenth and early twentieth-century history is one of remarkable …
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Wrestling With the Angels: Synthesizing Assemblage Theory and Conjunctural Analysis In Examining the Korean Sport Context
… contemporary society in general—and in sport and physical culture in particular—it is essential to explore diversified elements simultaneously rather than fixate on only a single factor (Anderson, 2014; Horton, 2020; Law et al., 2014; Ryan, 2021). Accordingly, this thesis introduces Manuel …
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Fearless and Fit: American Women of the Cold War
… Both governments encouraged citizens to become physically fit. The American government concerned itself with soft' corporate men and physically unfit youth. The Soviet government continued to emphasize physical culture, as a natural byproduct of Communism. Though American society idealized women …
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Sport in Soviet society : development and problems
… the widest sense to include, too, the systems of physical education which developed in Russian and Soviet schools and colleges. The Introduction examines the various western and Soviet concepts of physical culture, sport and recreational activities.
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Physical education for Soviet children and teacher and coach education. Physical education for children (to seventeen years). An historical overview and contemporary study of organisation and methods. An examination of the professional training of physical education teachers and sports coaches.
… point for this study was when as a specialist physical education teacher working in a school, I undertook a part-time inservice B. Ed degree and wrote a dissertation comparing the systems of physical education in the USSR and in England and Wales. I made one visit in 1979 to Moscow but, …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
… of prescribed embodiment and deemed “healthy” physical cultural forms and practices in the promotion and construction of garden cities as planned communities for “healthy living.” Informed by recent scholarship in Physical Cultural Studies (PCS), embodied environmental history, cultural …
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Strength in numbers : "Strength & Health" brand community from 1932-1964
… greatly to the rise of weightlifting and physical culture as a whole during the early to mid 1900s. He encouraged strength via exercising and training with weights, which he emphasized through the sport of weightlifting, and he sought to showcase America’s strength as a nation in the form …
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Having a bath in Japan: a biographical study of actress and black belt jūdōka Sarah Mayer (1896-1957)
… extent, the international politicisation of physical culture. The politicisation of sport, particularly the fighting arts, is an important, and sometimes neglected area of sports history, particularly in the Western literature. Providing a gendered perspective on the international history of …
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Understanding 'the National Sport for New Zealand Women': A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Netball
… space, power and resistance in sport and female physical culture.
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
… interstitial space between, art, education and physical culture. Through the interrelation of practice and archival research this thesis has revealed relationship between the Greek referent in Atkinson’s practice and how the positions appropriated from artistic representations, the principles …
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Strain improvement and characterization of antibiotic producing microorganisms from soil
… of these strains. Optimization of chemical and physical culture conditions was carried out by manipulation of fermentation parameter such as pH, Temperature and incubation period. The results revealed 7 strains of antibiotic producing organisms. 4 bacterial strains demonstrated convincing growth …
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Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… sought to assimilate Native youth into white culture and undermine Indigenous communities. My project focuses specifically on Haskell’s athletic and physical education programs, and I argue that through participation in Haskell’s physical and athletic culture, Native students actively resisted …
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Hoosiers on the Hardwood: A Critical Examination of Indiana Basketball Culture and its Effect on Identity Formation
… the romanticization of this sporting culture for its pedagogical role in the creation of twenty-first century ‘hoosier’ bodies. Adopting a theoretical orientation rooted in critical race theory, I argue that Indiana’s basketball culture represents a normalized / normalizing structure …
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