One big theme I noticed in this week’s reading was the importance of competitive games to the state, at least in the Chinese state. And I can think of other situations where the competitive nature of sports between countries was incredibly important to the countries involved. As someone who mostly understands European and U.S history…

The use of games and/or sports as a nationalistic tool is an interesting topic.  While it is hard to think of a sport that the United States uses to portray national prowess to other nations, excluding the Olympics of course, sports do fit nicely into nationalistic impulses.  While all of the readings for this weeks in some…

I’m having a hard time understanding “body culture”. It feels like there is a bombardment of different terms for different thing about a person’s body. Brownell uses it as meaning, “Body culture reflects the internalization and incorporation of culture. Body culture is embodied culture. (Brownell, pg.11)” It brings to question, what is culture? Everyone has…