Governing excess: Boxing, biopolitics and the body
| العنوان: | Governing excess: Boxing, biopolitics and the body |
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| المؤلفون: | J. Hardes |
| المصدر: | Theoretical Criminology. 24:689-705 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Vision, Sociology and Political Science, 05 social sciences, Context (language use), Witness, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Criminalization, Sovereignty, Political science, Law, 0502 economics and business, 050501 criminology, 050212 sport, leisure & tourism, Biopower, 0505 law, Social theory, Legalization |
| الوصف: | During the late 18th to late 19th centuries, practices of duelling and prize fighting were criminalized in Britain, while boxing remained legal. Through a genealogical method, this article locates discourses, primarily law, medicine, policing and science, to trace these mechanisms of criminalization and legalization. Focusing on the jurisdictions of the United Kingdom and the United States, I argue that the legalization of boxing did not simply emerge as a part of a ‘civilizing process’. Rather, I explain these processes of criminalization and legalization in the context of biopolitical rationalities of governance. In contrast to its contemporaries, boxing was rationalized as a scientific ‘sport’ that fitted with wider biopolitical visions of public health and well-being: allegedly it did not breed violence or threaten the public peace but was instead practised by skilled technicians. However, the biopolitical management of human life within rational and scientific form comes at a price: life’s ontological need for expression, and the drive to experience and witness boxing’s corporeal excesses remains a ghostly presence threatening to undo the sweet ‘science’. |
| تدمد: | 1461-7439 1362-4806 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::8b93dc8a26ea94b171f75fbe3ba1ff03 https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619864310 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........8b93dc8a26ea94b171f75fbe3ba1ff03 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14617439 13624806 |
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