Paul Bowman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 490725 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Bowman |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Bowman |
| ASSINATURA | BOWMAN P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9311-2391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Somacoloniality
This work engages the embodied and affective afterlives of three forms of British Imperial era ‘Indian Clubs’. Indian clubs are a broad family of exercise tools: some are of ancient Indian and Persian origin, others modified and modernised by the British military in India through the 18th and 19th centuries. The work focuses first on the pairs of small clubs that the British standardised; second, on the gada (or mace), a long staff with a weighte…
Imagined Somaesthetics and the Analysis of Embodied Ideology
Richard Shusterman’s theory of somaesthetics offers a valuable way for scholars to understand the body in practice, one that is particularly valuable for martial arts studies. However, I suggest, Shusterman does not fully engage with the dimension of the imagination in bodily practices. This, I argue, means that the theory of somaesthetics is unfinished or incomplete in relation to analysing the practicing body in relation to external cultural in…
Theoretical and Conceptual Development in and through Martial Arts Studies
This article provides an outline and rationale for a special issue of Martial Arts Studies concerning the development of concepts and theories from within the field of martial arts studies. Based on a series of short contributions from the authors whose work constitutes the special issue, the piece foregrounds the importance of concept development with respect to the identity, maturation, growing independence, and wider academic impact of the fie…
Orientalist Fever
In Western discourse, the Chinese practice of qigong (氣功) is frequently depicted as ancient, timeless, magical and mystical. Such representations might therefore be regarded as ‘orientalist’, involving formulaic simplifications, myths, exoticisation, misrepresentation and othering. But, what do we see when we turn to the Chinese discourse about qigong? This work argues that, in 20th century China, qigong was already depicted as ancient, timeless,…
Self-Defence as Ideology
This article poses the question of the relationship between self-defence and ideology. It situates self-defence in relation to several vignettes that seek to evoke salient aspects of contemporary masculinist ideology. In dialogue with Peter Katz’s recent work (especially his article published in this issue), I entertain Katz’s proposition that self-defence discourse may rest on an ‘epistemology of ignorance’ and may (like certain martial arts) te…
The Process and Cost of Developing a Community Advisory Board Focused on Opioid Overdose Deaths
Background: We describe the Community Advisory Board (CAB) development and costing processes employed by The Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEALing) Communities Study, Massachusetts (HCS-MA). The actual process and costs associated with establishing a CAB representative of people who use drugs have not been published. Methods: A participatory process was used to identify and recruit CAB members. Health economics costing strategies were used …
Feel the Difference
This work engages with a longstanding problem of East-West cultural difference: the different conceptions of anatomy and biology between modern scientific/‘Western’ medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. To do so, the work focuses on only one example of difference: the Chinese notion of the dantian (丹田). This is not present in Western anatomy or biology. So, the question arises as to its objective existence: If Western science cannot detect i…
The Birth of British Self-Defence
This article examines the discourse of self-defence as it emerged and developed in the British context after the introduction of self-defence as a legal term in English common law in 1604. Twentieth-century self-defence discourse is comparatively more well-researched than previous periods, but this study suggests that the concerns, contours and characteristics of current self-defence discourse were established much earlier, growing in the sevente…
Translating tai chi and transforming qigong in British media culture
There are a growing number of studies of the history and spread of taijiquan and qigong. However, there are few studies of taiji or qigong in the media. Based on a study of British media archives, this article traces the construction and representation of taijiquan (‘tai chi’) in British media. In doing so, it establishes and evaluates the meanings and values that have been imputed to the practice in British media discourse. It first examines key…
Martial Arts in the Pandemic
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
From Chop Suey to Chop-Socky
Edward Said’s theory of orientalism proposes that Western European culture has overwhelmingly tended to (mis)represent non-European cultures, societies, regions, and ethnic groups via mythic, romantic, simplistic and simplifying sets of binaries. This article asks whether orientalism remains present or active within contemporary media, by analysing the representation of ‘Chineseness’ in British television adverts between 1955 and 2018. It argues …
Five Years and Twelve Months that Changed the Study of Martial Arts Forever
This is the tenth issue of Martial Arts Studies, published almost exactly five years after issue 1.Over those five years the academic study of martial arts has come to look very different from when we began.In many ways, arriving at five years of bi-annual publications, with each of our issues containing influential and innovative scholarship, feels like a landmark achievement.But we are also now twelve months into our relationship with COVID-19.…
Metamorphoses of Martial Arts
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
In toxic hating masculinity
This article begins by focusing on the presumed relation between the toughness fostered by mixed martial arts (MMA) and the maintenance of traditional ‘hard man’ forms of toxic masculinity. However, it adds an extra dimension to this discussion. It argues that (first) the UFC and (thereafter) MMA as a whole were in very tangible ways invented within and thanks to reality TV. As such, it contends that MMA's often debated relation to ‘real’ fightin…
Bruce Lee’s media legacies
Keywords Communication history, communication research methods, communication theory, philosophy, related fields, sociology
Fighting Over Bruce Lee
This article responds to Kyle Barrowman’s polemic against my work on Bruce Lee (this issue). Part One of my response sets out the overarching problems with Barrowman’s misreading of my work and of poststructuralism. Part Two sets out some of the arguments I have actually made about Bruce Lee, as opposed to those Barrowman imputes to me. Readers principally interested in Bruce Lee or in my own take on Bruce Lee could skip Part One. However, in bot…
The limits of post-Marxism
This article first sets out the value of the political discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. It argues that this work was central to the development of cultural studies, in its theorisation of social and cultural practices as being part of ‘political discourse’. This confers a dignity, status, value and political importance on cultural practices of all kinds. However, the article seeks to probe the limits of this approach to cultural politics, a…
Game of text
This article situates Bruce Lee at the heart of the emergence of ‘martial arts’. It argues that the notion ‘martial arts’, as we now know it, is a discursive entity that emerged in the wake of media texts, and that the influence of Bruce Lee films of the early 1970s was both seminal and structuring of ‘martial arts’, in ways that continue to be felt. Using the media theory proposition that a limited range of ‘key visuals’ structure the aesthetic …
The definition of martial arts studies
This article argues against all forms of scientism and the widespread perceived need to define martial arts in order to study martial arts or ‘do’ martial arts studies. It argues instead for the necessity of theory before definition, including theorisation of the orientation of the field of martial arts studies itself. Accordingly, the chapter criticises certain previous (and current) academic approaches to martial arts, particularly the failed p…
Making Martial Arts History Matter
This paper examines key ways in which ideas such as ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘history’ are deployed in discourses around Asian martial arts. First introducing how such concepts are used in national contexts such as Korea and elsewhere in East Asia it then examines the case of a dispute between two English language writers on martial arts. It examines these different cases to illustrate the ways that ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘histo…
Asking the question
This article proposes that the emerging field of martial arts studies will benefit by engaging as thoroughly with questions of disciplinarity as with questions of martial arts. It argues that thorough and self-reflexive attention to the problems and possibilities associated with academic work as such will greatly enrich martial arts studies and enable it to develop into as vital and dynamic a field as possible. The article explores martial arts s…
Warrior Women
Reading Rey Chow
Beyond Bruce Lee
In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and it addresses the resurgence of his pop…
Reading Rey Chow
This article examines some key concerns and problematics that are regularly engaged in the work of Rey Chow, and relates them to the theoretical and political problematics of cultural studies as an ethico-political project. It associates Chow's work with strong impulses and many of the abiding concerns that define the projects of such thinkers as Stuart Hall and Jacques Derrida, whilst also connecting her interventions to other key problematics i…
Theorizing Bruce Lee
Theorizing Bruce Lee is a unique work, which uses cultural theory to analyse and assess Bruce Lee, and uses Bruce Lee to analyse and assess cultural theory. Lee is shown to be a major 'event' in both global film and global popular culture – a figure who's central to many intercultural encounters, texts, and practices. Many key elements of film and cultural theory are employed to theorize Bruce Lee, and Lee is shown to be a complex – and consequen…
Making Martial Arts History Matter
This paper examines key ways in which ideas such as ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘history’ are deployed in discourses around Asian martial arts. First introducing how such concepts are used in national contexts such as Korea and elsewhere in East Asia it then examines the case of a dispute between two English language writers on martial arts. It examines these different cases to illustrate the ways that ‘tradition’, ‘authenticity’, and ‘histo…
In toxic hating masculinity
This article begins by focusing on the presumed relation between the toughness fostered by mixed martial arts (MMA) and the maintenance of traditional ‘hard man’ forms of toxic masculinity. However, it adds an extra dimension to this discussion. It argues that (first) the UFC and (thereafter) MMA as a whole were in very tangible ways invented within and thanks to reality TV. As such, it contends that MMA's often debated relation to ‘real’ fightin…
The definition of martial arts studies
This article argues against all forms of scientism and the widespread perceived need to define martial arts in order to study martial arts or ‘do’ martial arts studies. It argues instead for the necessity of theory before definition, including theorisation of the orientation of the field of martial arts studies itself. Accordingly, the chapter criticises certain previous (and current) academic approaches to martial arts, particularly the failed p…
Politics on the Edges of Liberalism
Deconstructing Popular Culture
Deconstructing Popular Music The Undecidability of the Popular Deconstructing Identity Fetishes and Fixations: Popular Politics Counter Culture Who moved my worth? Managing Self Help Other-Wise Popular: Popular Representations of the Other Conclusion: Deconstructing Cultural Studies
Asking the question
This article proposes that the emerging field of martial arts studies will benefit by engaging as thoroughly with questions of disciplinarity as with questions of martial arts. It argues that thorough and self-reflexive attention to the problems and possibilities associated with academic work as such will greatly enrich martial arts studies and enable it to develop into as vital and dynamic a field as possible. The article explores martial arts s…
Metamorphoses of Martial Arts
Martial Arts Studies publishes the highest quality academic work on any aspect of martial arts studies. It aspires to stimulate and enrich the development of research and scholarship in martial arts studies by publishing the highest quality interdisciplinary work in the emergent field
Sick man of transl-Asia
This article examines the status of Bruce Lee films when they are approached as cultural translations; “translations”, however, that have no simple original. It does so in terms of Rey Chow's proposed approach to cultural translation as set out in Primitive passions; firstly by indicating the constructed character of the simultaneously-produced Cantonese-language and English-language versions of the same films, and then by exploring some of the i…
Game of text
This article situates Bruce Lee at the heart of the emergence of ‘martial arts’. It argues that the notion ‘martial arts’, as we now know it, is a discursive entity that emerged in the wake of media texts, and that the influence of Bruce Lee films of the early 1970s was both seminal and structuring of ‘martial arts’, in ways that continue to be felt. Using the media theory proposition that a limited range of ‘key visuals’ structure the aesthetic …
Autodidactics of Bits
This article explores a minor work by Adrian Rifkin, a work which focuses primarily on his research method of parataxis, but which this article reads for what it offers to a reconsideration of pedagogy, or ‘teaching and learning’. The article argues that Adrian Rifkin has long been a ‘Rancièrean’ within UK cultural studies, and that this history has yet to be fully assessed. The importance of Rifkin’s Rancièrean pedagogical and research methods i…
Popular Cultural Pedagogy, in Theory; Or
This Disagreement is Not One
The Cooper River Bridge
107 The Cooper River Bridge P. C. Bowman We are between Sumter and the three batteries That rattled even Lincoln into madness. The guns are gone, replaced by a stand of trees Doubling themselves mildly in the water And a yachting club. We wave from the ferry To the indolent bellies aboard That never darken. There is no answer. Fat men on yachts are exempted from waving. We are headed upstream to the naval yard When we see the bridge arcing and dr…
Deconstructing Pragmatism
In Citing Violence
Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility
(2001). Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Cultural Studies and the Price of Fish. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 277-291
Proper Impropriety
"Promiscuous fidelity to revolution, or, revaluing "revolutionary' left intellectualism
Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s)
This chapter covers work published on Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s) in 2003.
Cultural Studies and Slavoj Žižek
Post-Marxism Versus Cultural StudiesTheory, Politics and Intervention
An innovative exploration of the ethical and political relationship between Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist theory
Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies
"This book is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of cultural studies and post-Marxist discourse theory. Through considerations of key aspects of cultural studies and discourse theory, the author argues that the very thing fundamental to both of these 'politicised' approaches - the quest to establish a theory of intervention, and to relate this to political practice - actually remains frustrated and unrealised as a…
This Disagreement is Not One
Alterdisciplinarity
Deconstructing Popular Culture
Deconstructing Popular Music The Undecidability of the Popular Deconstructing Identity Fetishes and Fixations: Popular Politics Counter Culture Who moved my worth? Managing Self Help Other-Wise Popular: Popular Representations of the Other Conclusion: Deconstructing Cultural Studies
Politics on the Edges of Liberalism
Theorizing Bruce Lee
User Guide: Main Menu Introduction: Theorizing Bruce Lee, Sublime Object of Academia Film-Fantasy: The Communication of Screen Violence Fantasy-Fighting Fighting-Philosophy Bibliography Filmography Index
Jacques Rancière
The Rey Chow Reader
Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political r…
Rey Chow and postcolonial social semiotics
This article is the Introduction to a special issue of Social Semiotics focusing on the work of Rey Chow, entitled “Rey Chow and Postcolonial Social Semiotics.” It introduces the issue through a consideration of the status of ethnicity and identity performativity in both popular culture and academic culture informed by the work of Rey Chow. It then discusses Chow's key interventions, before introducing the work of the contributors to this collect…
Sick man of transl-Asia
This article examines the status of Bruce Lee films when they are approached as cultural translations; “translations”, however, that have no simple original. It does so in terms of Rey Chow's proposed approach to cultural translation as set out in Primitive passions; firstly by indicating the constructed character of the simultaneously-produced Cantonese-language and English-language versions of the same films, and then by exploring some of the i…
Theorizing Bruce Lee
Theorizing Bruce Lee is a unique work, which uses cultural theory to analyse and assess Bruce Lee, and uses Bruce Lee to analyse and assess cultural theory. Lee is shown to be a major 'event' in both global film and global popular culture – a figure who's central to many intercultural encounters, texts, and practices. Many key elements of film and cultural theory are employed to theorize Bruce Lee, and Lee is shown to be a complex – and consequen…
Rey Chow, postcoloniality and interdisciplinarity
Reading Rancière
How to Not Read Žižek
Post-Cinematic Effects
Post-Cinematic Effects Steven Shaviro, Post-Cinematic Affect, London, Zero Books, 2010, 191pp; £10.99 paperbackSteven Shaviro's Post-Cinematic Affect engages with the effects of post-cinematic technologies on our experiences, orientations, emotions, feelings and lives. 'Post-cinematic' technologies include all that is associated with the rise of interactivity, gaming, multimedia, and the proliferation of different internet platforms, as well as v…
Culture and the Media
Introduction Chapter 1: Culture is (not) the Media 'Culture and the Media?' What and the What? Familiar Impossible Terms Discourse The Extremities of Culture (Un)Popular Culture Barbarian, Philistine and Popular Culture Culture versus the Media Culture as Media The Disagreement of Culture Chapter 2: Media is (not) the Culture Media (and) Messages Interconnectedness, V.1 Interconnectedness V.2 Interconnectedness V2.1 (Supplement) Shop Around Media…
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