Immune body? : Discourses about physical exercise in a bodybuilding gym
Anchored in the debate about medicalization, the objective of this study was to understand the relationships between physical exercise and immunity constructed in a bodybuilding gym during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve semi-structured interviews were triangulated with those who frequent the establis...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) |
| Repository: | Cadernos de Campo: Revista de Ciências Sociais |
| Language: | Portuguese English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/18963 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/cadernos/article/view/18963 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Body practices Gym Immunity Medicalization COVID-19 Prácticas corporales Gimnasios Inmunidad Medicalización Práticas corporais Academias de ginástica Imunidade Medicalização |
| Summary: | Anchored in the debate about medicalization, the objective of this study was to understand the relationships between physical exercise and immunity constructed in a bodybuilding gym during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve semi-structured interviews were triangulated with those who frequent the establishment with the academy’s publications on a social network. For data analysis, discourse and image analysis were combined. The results indicated how medicalization processes constituted, in multiple ways, a large part of the emic-imagetics discourses about physical exercise in the pandemic context. It is concluded that biopsychosocial aspects permeate the idea of immunity and its relationships with “exercising” in bodybuilding. |
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