Richard Pringle: 2 books

Book cover of Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure
by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport – pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral...
Book cover of Foucault, Sport and Exercise

Foucault, Sport and Exercise

Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self

by Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students, exploring how Foucauldian theory can...
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