Pandemic Health and Fitness

di Sabina M. Perrino (Autore)

Joshua O. Reno (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024

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.

• Autore: Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 172 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9781032328522

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