| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Risk, Failure, Play; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue-Taking Play Seriously: A History of this Project; Introduction: Why Do You Do This? Experiencing Humanity in Combat Play; 1. No Hard Feelings: Why Martial Arts Doesn't Mean What Violence Means; 2. The Magic Ring: How Combat Sport Transforms Meaning through Space and Movement; 3. Chess with Cardio: Finding the Meeting Point in Sport Fighting; 4. What's There to Lose? Vulnerability in Combat Sport; 5. On the Line: The Pleasure of Risk versus the Culture of Fear; 6. Fail Better: The Paradox of Defeat in Martial Arts Training |
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7. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Perfection in Sport8. Making Work Play: Rethinking Competitive Pleasure through Self-Defense Training; Conclusion: A Crisis of Play?; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Martial arts -- Psychological aspects
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Martial arts -- Social aspects
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Martial arts -- Psychological aspects
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Martial arts -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190871550 |
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0190871555 |
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