Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-316).

This doctoral research addresses the relationship between the sport of boxing and men’s desistance from violent crime. It examines how men make sense of violence as a result of participating in the sport, and how they subsequently rehearse and practice violence in their everyday lives both in and outside of the gym walls. Thirteen men were interviewed using Biographical Narrative Interviewing techniques as part of a six month ethnography in an inner-city boxing gym in the north of England. Furthermore, I spoke with three policy makers in the field of sport and desistance from crime, to ascertain whether or not they determined sport to be beneficial in promoting pro-social behaviour among adolescents. Throughout this thesis I pay particular attention to the participant’s understanding of violence and also how the logic of the gym reinforces attitudes favourable to violence and the maintenance of respect. Thus, this research discusses and elaborates on previous assumptions in sporting and desistance literature, and argues that while relevant, diversionary activities and sport-based rehabilitative programmes are only one element in the theory of change. In conclusion, arguments are put forward that state that boxing actually traps men in an attendant culture of respect that requires them to respond in aggressive ways to maintain an image of both masculinity and respect. This attendant culture - that is transposable between gym and street – can override the pro- social desisting elements that the gym can offer, and reinforces the logic and discourses that evokes and traps men in habits of responding to violence, therefore in terms of future policy and practice new directions need to be sought.

In 1908 Jack Johnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. His reign would be rife with controversy, leading to widespread racial violence and draconian government intervention. Lester Walton, theater critic for the New York Age, became obsessed with Johnson; his extensive writing on the boxer powerfully reveals not just Walton’s own struggle with issues of race in America, but sheds light on the difficulties the black community at large faced in trying to make sense of a figure who simultaneously represented hope for the positive change Reconstruction failed to produce and, ironically, also threatened to intensify the hardships of Jim Crow era oppression.

La création d'un plan de cours nécessite l'élaboration d'exercices de complexité croissante. L'objectif est d'augmenter progressivement la complexité de la tâche pour permettre d'introduire des incertitudes dans les exercices et favoriser l'apprentissage. Le cadre théorique revient sur les notions et définitions de la tâche, de la complexité, de technique sportive, de la complexité de la tâche en EPS et des bases pédagogiques et didactiques de l'enseignement de la savate boxe française. L'objectif de l'auteur est de créer et valider une échelle de mesure de la complexité de la tâche pour le sport savate boxe française. La méthodologie employée sera de valider cet outil grâce à une validation hypothético-déductive de sa forme, une validation contre un outil d'évaluation du niveau technique en savate, une étude de la fidélité dans le temps par mesures répétées et une sensitivité des résultats entre un utilisateur expert et un utilisateur novice. L'échelle est composée de quatre sous échelles qui mesurent la complexité gestuelle ou informationnelle. Les résultats de l'expérience montre que l'on trouve une corrélation entre les résultats de la sous échelle de complexité gestuelle offensive et le niveau de complexité des situations de la progression technique de savate. On trouve aussi des corrélations entre les résultats à la mesure 1 et à la mesure 2, effectués à un mois d'intervalle. Enfin on montre un plus grand nombre de différences significatives entre les résultats de l'étalon et les résultats du novice par rapport à l'expert. Les conclusions sont que l'outil est valide, fidèle dans le temps, mais qu'il nécessite un apprentissage et que le niveau d'expérience peut influencer sur la prise des mesures. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Échelles, Tâche, Complexité, Technique, Complexité de la tâche, Savate boxe française.

The aim of this study is to test the assumption that the depictions of ancient boxing found on Attic Black and Red Figure pottery are accurate. Due to the scarcity of ancient written material and physical evidence, most of our knowledge of the sport must be based on the depictions themselves. / This thesis sets out to discover whether or not our basis of knowledge, the vases and their depictions, are accurate and reflect what truly happened in a boxing match. To accomplish this, two main variables are put to test: the ratio of left- and right-handed boxers, and the occurrence of certain tactics used when right-handed and left-handed fighters face each other. / Primary sources of depictions are drawn from the Panathenaic amphorae together with some other Attic Black and Red Figure vases. Boxing knowledge is that of the author, who has studied in the field for the past five years.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--George Mason University, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 21, 2008). Thesis director: Peggy Feerick. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Art in Art and Visual Technology. Vita: p. 58. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56). Also available in print.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The publication A South African Boxer in Britain contains the unique aesthetic of the Cape Town born boxer Andrew Jeptha, the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. The booklet was published in 1910 to offer pecuniary relief to the blinded author (Jeptha) who incurred the affliction during the very match that secured him the title. Thus, although masquerading as a ‘light read’ of sporting achievements and memories from abroad, I argue the booklet authorises a complex thinking on text, disability and boxing. The thesis takes care to present the publication as a crucial historical work that offers a level of psychic and racial strategy not naturally thought to exist in the genesis of a turn-of-the-century boxer. The textual ideation manifest in Jeptha’s booklet is mooted within the thesis as distinctive in its accommodation of both desire and difference, rendering a calculation that sees the text not as the deserted boundary where ‘mind’ and ‘flesh’ depart, but rather as a particular bibliographic configuration where both these worlds meet in a moment that remands reductive views of the gladiator and his words of care. / 2020-01-01

The project is an investigation of the development of architectural space through drawing. The aim is to arrive at a design through the use of a graphic novel. The building has three programmes that augment the current conditions of the context. A motorcycle workshop and showroom; a boxing academy, and short term accommodation [apartments]. If fiction is really an invented reality, then protagonists are interpretations of projected contexts. The use of a comic offers a subjective perspective of design, as well as the ability to explore spaces where architecture is a backdrop. This is similar to the use of architecture in film. Parallel to the progression of the storyline, the process of illustrating the scenes forms the platform for the development of the architectural design. / Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Architecture / MArch(Prof) / Unrestricted

This is a diverse collection of narrative nonfiction, which includes personal essays, reportage, nature writing, and short columns. Its major themes include boxing and fly-fishing. Many of the pieces are set in and around the state of Oregon.

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