{"product_id":"risk-failure-play-what-dance-reveals-about-martial-arts-training-paperback","title":"Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet O'Shea\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRisk, Failure, Play\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the many ways in which competitive martial arts differentiate themselves from violence. Presented from the perspective of a dancer and writer, this book takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through training in a range of martial arts practices such as jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and empowerment self-defense. Author Janet OâShea shows how play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and demonstrates that physical play, with its immediacy and heightened risk, is particularly effective at accomplishing this task. \u003cem\u003eRisk, Failure, Play\u003c\/em\u003e also demonstrates the many ways in which physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social reality. \u003cem\u003eRisk, Failure, Play\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines personal experience with phenomenology, social psychology, dance studies, performance studies, as well as theories of play and competition in order to produce\u003cbr\u003einsights on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, agency, individual identity, and society. Ultimately, this book suggests that play allows us to rehearse other ways to live than the ones we see before us and challenges us to reimagine our social reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet O'Shea is Professor of World Arts and Cultures\/Dance at UCLA. Author of \u003cem\u003eAt Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage \u003c\/em\u003eand the co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eRoutledge Dance Studies Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, 2nd edition, her research focuses on corporeality, interdisciplinary exchange, and the politics of everyday life. She is a practitioner of Filipino martial arts, jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, and empowerment self-defense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753905258784,"sku":"9780190871543","price":87.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3d9e0dba72609d3f4c5036b0b87c8ab3.webp?v=1780029260","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/risk-failure-play-what-dance-reveals-about-martial-arts-training-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}