{"product_id":"deconstructing-martial-arts-9781911653004","title":"Deconstructing Martial Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the essence of martial arts? What is their place in or relationship with culture and society?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeconstructing Martial Arts\u003c\/em\u003e analyses familiar issues and debates that arise in scholarly, practitioner and popular cultural discussions and treatments of martial arts and argues that martial arts are dynamic and variable constructs whose meanings and values regularly shift, mutate and transform, depending on the context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt argues that deconstructing martial arts is an invaluable approach to both the scholarly study of martial arts in culture and society and also to wider understandings of what and why martial arts are. Placing martial arts in relation to core questions and concerns of media and cultural studies around identity, value, orientalism, and embodiment, \u003cem\u003eDeconstructing Martial Arts\u003c\/em\u003e introduces and elaborates deconstruction as a rewarding method of cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBowman, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Paul Bowman is professor of cultural studies at Cardiff University. He writes on a range of concerns in cultural studies, most recently Martial Arts Studies: Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries (2015) and Mythologies of Martial Arts (2017). He is editor of the journal Martial Arts Studies and Director of the Martial Arts Studies Research Network.","brand":"Ubiquity Press (Cardiff University Press)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364033761554,"sku":"9781911653004","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10721093-1d85-4c18-aff2-c2821cd1c0cf.jpg?v=1728423409","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deconstructing-martial-arts-9781911653004","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}