Search for dissertations about: "martial arts"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words martial arts.

2. 1. The body in pain and pleasure : an ethnography of mixed martial arts

   Author : Magnus Stenius; Marianne Liliequist; Håkan Berglund-Lake; Orvar Löfgren; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MMA; Violence; Embodiment; UFC; Gender; Masculinity; Pain; Flow; Ethnography; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Abstract : Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a sport on the rise within the field of martial arts in which competitors fight in a cage and utilize full-contact movements using their fists, elbows, and knees as well as kicks, other strikes, and submission techniques to defeat their opponents. MMA has become a modern social movement in combat sports that has become globalized in a short time and is the fastest growing sport in the world. READ MORE

4. 2. Moving decolonially in design for sustainabilities : spaces, rhythms, rituals, celebrations, conflicts

   Author : Nicholas B. Torretta; Johan Redström; Brendon Clark; Andrea Botero Cabrero; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Design; decolonization; sustainability; Capoeira; movement; decolonising design; design for sustainability; pluriverse; pluriversality; industrial design; design; design;

   Abstract : As design attempts to tackle environmental and social issues, it has found itself intertwined with and bound to an oppressive global paradigm that has created the problems in the first place. Consequently, the effort of disentangling design from its current paradigm has been gaining attention under the emerging focus of decolonising design (Mareis and Paim, 2020; Tlostanova, 2017) and design for pluriversality (Escobar, 2018; Noel, 2020). READ MORE