KPE200H1: Physical Cultural Studies: Theories, Bodies, Politics, Contexts and Praxis

This course builds on KPE 100 and examines the study of physical culture alongside social and cultural theories regarding the ways in which human life is organized, produced, reproduced and experienced. Attention is given to how studies of physical culture provide answers to questions such as what it means to live in a society structured by power relations that privilege some and form the bases of injustice for others. A range of sociological, philosophical, humanities and cultural theories are used to illustrate how physical culture, sport and kinesiology are affected by historical, political and social structures and processes of knowledge production that reproduce hegemonic systems based on normativity, colonialism and racism, patriarchal capitalism, neoliberalism, speciesism, ecocide, biopedagogies and scientization. We will discuss ways in which resistance/s to these hegemonic systems can move us towards a more equitable physical culture, sport and kinesiology.

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