Paul Bowman

Martial Arts Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The phrase "martial arts studies" is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular way. Therefore, is there really such a thing as a unique field of martial arts studies?

Martial Arts Studies is the first book to engage directly with these questions. It assesses the multiplicity and heterogeneity of possible approaches to martial arts studies, exploring orientations and limitations of existing approaches. It makes a case for constructing the field of martial arts studies in terms of key coordinates from post-structuralism, cultural studies, media studies, and post-colonialism.

By using these anti-disciplinary approaches to disrupt the approaches of other disciplines, Martial Arts Studies proposes a field that both emerges out of and differs from its many disciplinary locations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783481293
• Artikelnr.: 42884943

Autorenporträt

Paul Bowman is professor of cultural studies at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface and Note on the Text
1. Martial Arts Studies as an Academic Field
2. Writing Martial Arts Studies: Body, History, (Trans)Nation and Narration
3. The Reality of Martial Arts
4. Martial Arts and Cultural Politics Mediated: Disrupting Political Theory
5. Conclusion: Orders of Discourse
Bibliography
Index