"Forging the future of fitness" : 'consuming' children, late-capitalism, and CrossFit kids magazine

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dc.contributor.authorCouture, Jesse
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorAdams, Carly
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-12T20:05:10Z
dc.date.available2016-02-12T20:05:10Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I engage with historical ideas about children and young bodies and place them in conversation with dominant contemporary narratives as a means of establishing some of the ways that young people are understood and talked about with respect to sport and physical activity. Specifically, I undertake a discourse analysis of CrossFit Kids Magazine (CFKM) to uncover some of the narratives reproduced therein about children. I propose that CFKM destabilizes certain gendered stereotypes with respect to the representation of sporting bodies but that its reliance upon (hetero)sexist ideas about gender works to negate any discursive resistance. Furthermore, I propose that CFKM routinely blurs the conceptual category of the child by paradoxically co-constructing young people as autonomous future citizens ‘in-training’, chiefly responsible their own health, and, at once, as vulnerable subjects in need of proactive protection.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRCen_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4412
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0814en_US
dc.proquest.subject0733en_US
dc.proquest.subject0626en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Educationen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Kinesiology and Physical Educationen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectchildrenen_US
dc.subjectCrossFiten_US
dc.subjectexerciseen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectrisken_US
dc.title"Forging the future of fitness" : 'consuming' children, late-capitalism, and CrossFit kids magazineen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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