Tag: Lucia Trimbur
Useful contribution to the study of race, inequality, and identity in American professional boxing
Professional boxers work inside a capitalistic and neoliberal sports culture that they both challenge and uphold. Rings of Dissent: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion, edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson & David J. Leonard (University of Illinois Press), delves into professional boxing’s capacity for brilliance, contradiction, resistance, and complicity. Our reviewers Daniele Canini and Anne Tjønndal found several compelling individual contributions, but given the academic provenance would have expected a stronger emphasis on analytical rather than descriptive writing.
Quest, Volume 71, 2019, Issue 2: Social Justice and Sport: Religious, Sociological and Capability Perspectives
Quest is the official journal of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE). It is the leading journal for interdisciplinary scholarship for professionals in kinesiology in higher education. Quest provides a public forum for scholarship, creative thought, and research relevant to a broad range of interests held by faculty and leaders in higher education today.
