Pandemic Health and Fitness Hardback
by Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno
Part of the Routledge Studies in Health Humanities series
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This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being. Perrino and Reno introduce a multilayered framework which combines insights from linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, integrating narrative analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography, with autoethnography.
This approach allows for a holistic portrait of the gym as a research site and of fitness as a fruitful area for dynamic cross-disciplinary study.
The volume explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped attitudes and practices around fitness, drawing on audio and video recordings and the authors’ lived experiences to analyze everything from workout choreography to micro-celebrity fitness culture to group classes.
The book raises key questions around what it means to be well amid a pandemic, the practical dangers of realizing fitness goals in such times, the effects on the social relationships inherent to gym culture, and the impact on identity construction and self-reflection. This volume will appeal to scholars interested in the interdisciplinary study of fitness, in such areas as linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, health humanities, and sport studies.
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- Pages:172 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black a
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/03/2024
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:172 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black a
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:13/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781032328522