Tag: Kate Sylvester
An important contribution enriching dialogues on gender equality in martial arts, cultural representation, and the transformative potential of ethnography
Kate Sylvester’s Women and Martial Art in Japan is based on extensive original research originally for her doctoral thesis. She examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art. Our reviewer is Anna Kavoura, with extensive experiences in combat sports, and she is highly appreciative of Sylvester’s study, which “offers profound insights into broader themes of gender dynamics, cultural identity, and ethnographic methodology in [a] non-Western cultural context”.
Sport and alcohol – two popular social lubricants in a sticky relationship
Sport and alcohol go way back in sport history, hand in hand. Drink manufacturers sponsor sport, sports people drink and endorse various alcoholic beverages. Is it a sort of symbiosis? Anyway, it’s been the subject of a number of academic studies, the latest being a collected volume by Sarah Gee, Sport, Alcohol and Social Inquiry: A Global Cocktail (Emerald), which is reviewed here by Alan Bairner – and “there could have been few better choices”.
