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Lau Kar-leung with Walter Benjamin: storytelling, authenticity, film performance and martial arts pedagogy [PDF]
, 2014 This recent article considers how we might understand the politics of corporeal identification that stands at the heart of the pleasures of kung fu cinema, and how might this be built on the forms of pedagogy – the ‘embodied knowledge’ – of the martial ...
White, Luke
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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The Globalization of Martial Arts: The Change of Rules for New Markets
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012 The rapid growth of the martial arts industry warrants a deeper understanding of the globalization process of martial arts. There is very little known about martial arts as a global consumer product and its diffusion process to date. In this article, the
Yong Jae Ko, Jin Bang Yang
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Canton Kung Fu: The Culture of Guangdong Martial Arts
SAGE Open, 2019 During the 20th century, a version of Kung Fu from the Guangdong region in Southern China became more widely known abroad as a result of Chinese migration to the West, as well as its exposure through popular culture, including the films of Bruce Lee ...
Guo Ye
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Participation Motivation in Martial Artists in the West Midlands Region of England [PDF]
, 2006 The objectives were to identify the participation motivations and the perceived importance of certain participation factors in martial artists in the West Midlands, England, UK.
Jones, Gareth, Mackay, Ken, Peters, D.M.
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Sports CEOs and Corporate Innovation
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a hand‐collected data set, we find that firms led by CEOs who were student‐athletes in college exhibit significantly superior innovation outcomes, as measured by patent numbers, citation counts, and the economic value of patents. Evidence from CEO turnover analysis supports a CEO imprinting interpretation.
Jaideep Chowdhury +2 more
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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Scientific ReportsSmart city construction, as a new model of urban development, has become a crucial means to encourage residents’ participation in physical exercise. However, there is still a lack of systematic exploration regarding the mechanisms by which smart city ...
Feng-Wei Dong +3 more
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UFC Fighters Are Taking a Beating Because They are Misclassified as Independent Contractors. An Employee Classification Would Change the Fight Game for the UFC, Its Fighters, and MMA [PDF]
, 2017 The current state of affairs in the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) is overwhelmingly in favor of the companies promoting the fights and not in favor of the athletes actually putting their health and lives at risk.
Salminen, Vincent
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Integrating Rough-and-Tumble Play in Martial Arts: A Practitioner’s Model [PDF]
, 2021 Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson, Pilo Stylin
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