Inscribing healthification: governance, risk, surveillance and the subjects and spaces of fitness and health

Fusco, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.10.003

Cited by 60 publications

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“…Although spatial scholars have investigated community gyms and health centers (see Andrews, Sudwell, & Sparkes, 2005;Fusco, 2005Fusco, , 2006aFusco, , 2006bNewhall, 2013;Spielvogel, 2002), the majority of scholarly attention has focused on more economically impactful urban sports areas such as stadiums and large urban parks (e.g., Bale, 2003;Bale & Vertinsky, 2004;Fusco, 2009;Gaffney & Bale, 2004;Puig, del Castillo, Pellegrino, & Lambert, 1993;Silk, 2004). Furthermore, Andrews, Sudwell, and Sparkes (2005) highlighted the need to examine the smaller divisions of sport space within gyms and other fitness sites.…”

Section: Additionally the International Review For The Sociology Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the CrossFit Gym

Crockett¹,

Butryn²

2018

Sociology of Sport Journal

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CrossFit is a group fitness program that incorporates a variety of weightlifting and gymnastic movements performed at high intensities. While scholars have examined CrossFit’s physiological and behavioral outcomes, few studies have examined the program’s psychological and sociological characteristics. Drawing from Henning Eichberg’s work on spatial geography, this 5-month ethnographic study examined the space and place of two CrossFit gyms as an introduction to a broader discussion on CrossFit subculture and evolving discourses about the body, health, and fitness. Specifically, the gyms’ location, layout, and open arrangement of moving bodies revealed three major themes about CrossFit space: a place that blurs the line between exercise and menial labor in an otherwise sedentary and technologized society; a place that is inclusive specifically in terms of gender, age, and ability, yet exclusive socioeconomically; and a faux-elite sporting place that inadvertently produces wild and untamed bodily movements. Results of the study suggest that CrossFit’s popularity in recent years portends a dramatic shift in the social function of recreational fitness toward forms of exercise that are more inclusive, and yet at the same time are more socially competitive and hierarchical.

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Section: Additionally the International Review For The Sociology Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the CrossFit Gym

Crockett¹,

Butryn²

2018

Sociology of Sport Journal

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“…The research that has contributed to grounding healthism in the empirical has mostly done so in sites and contexts other than the fitness industry, most notably in the context of physical education, higher education (athletic centers), and clinical health professions (see Fusco 2006;Gekoski and Knox 1990;Greenhalgh and Wessely 2004;Kirk and Colquhoun 1989).…”

Section: Consuming Healthism In (And Through) the Corporatized Fitnesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Training the Body for Healthism: ReifyingVitalityIn and Through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club

Wiest¹,

Andrews²,

Giardina³

2015

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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After purchasing her fitness club membership, the White, middle-aged woman scheduled her ''complimentary fitness assessment,'' a proposed valuable amenity accessible to new members who financially committed to sign up for a club membership. During the first assessment with a personal training sales staff member held a few days later-in which the new member is prompted to discuss her or his reason(s) for joining the club and the goals he or she wants to achieve-the woman passed out. After the woman was stable, she informed the staff member that she had a medical condition which caused her to faint spontaneously. The assessment was cut short for the day.However, the Training General Manager (TGM), a considerably younger man, eagerly took advantage of the opportunity to take over her fitness assessment the next time the woman was available to attend the club and finish the evaluation. Upon this member's return, the TGM assisted her through a strength training workout session, which was the last component of the fitness assessment. 1 The TGM instructed her through a circuit workout in which most of the exercises were performed with the heavy stationary strength training machines. Throughout her workout, he repeatedly urged her to invest in a packaged personal training membership. Nevertheless, she declined.After arriving at the club the following day, this new member requested brief assistance from the TGM to operate the same exercise machines he had demonstrated how to use during her second assessment session. She expressed apprehension in using the same machines because she was not familiar with maneuvering this workout equipment properly. The TGM refused to provide any guidance and justified his indifference for the new member's trepidation or safety by condemning her rejection to purchase personal training from him. Yet, he was the very same club representative who instructed her to use those workout machines the previous day, positioning the specific strength training routine as an invaluable exigency ''for her health.'' She requested just a quick run-through of how to use the machines appropriately to avoid injury (evading any mention of the medical condition she informed us about a few days before). Again, he refused to provide guidance and walked away from the woman, claiming that he did not have the time to discuss this matter since he was

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“…This movement is predicated on a simultaneous shifting between research pedagogies, teaching pedagogies and the physical that makes salient the discursive currents of age, gender, society, education, race, class, ethnicity, religion, (dis)ability that converge and permeate upon cultural spaces/'sites.' In so doing we thrust body pedagogies (Rich, 2011) and body texts (Fusco, 2006) into the core of our curricula. We attempt to deliver units on our programmes that provide space for elastic conversations about the ways in which knowledge can be developed, about individuals contributing to a more democratic whole and about how as a field we can contribute to wider societal debates.…”

Section: Qualitative Research and A Language Of (Physical) Possibilitiesmentioning

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On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices

Silk

Francombe-Webb

Rich

et al. 2015

Qualitative Inquiry

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Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport—a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges “state” science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of “the physical” in overcoming social, political, and health inequalities. To counter such regressive orthodoxies, we focus on a corporeal/technoslow approach to the curriculum/pedagogy in an effort to initiate dialogue about a more progressive and democratic social science of sport, leisure, and physical cultures—a transgressive pedagogy that can encourage transformation and the political potentialities of “the physical.”

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Inscribing healthification: governance, risk, surveillance and the subjects and spaces of fitness and health

Cited by 60 publications

References 31 publications

Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the CrossFit Gym

Chasing Rx: A Spatial Ethnography of the CrossFit Gym

Training the Body for Healthism: ReifyingVitalityIn and Through the Clinical Gaze of the Neoliberal Fitness Club

On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices

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