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Physical Cultural Studies
News from the PCS Research Group
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Dr. Michael Giardina Inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology
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Dr. Julie Maier delivers 2024 PCSGSA Conference Keynote
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Dr. Anna Posbergh to speak at 2024 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport
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Schedule Released for PCS Graduate Student Conference
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Wekesa Earth Center Featured on School of Public Health Website
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Seven Students and Faculty Present at 2023 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference
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Call for Abstracts, Theme, and Keynote Released for 2023 PCS Graduate Student Conference
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AAJEP Enjoys Successful Kickback Culture Jam
About Us
Physical Cultural Studies (PCS) is a research unit and interdisciplinary project located within the Department of Kinesiology. We seek to advance the critically and theoretically-driven analysis of physical culture, in all its myriad forms. These include sport, exercise, fitness, health, recreation, dance, and movement related practices, which PCS research locates and analyzes within the broader social, political, economic, and technological contexts in which they are situated. Working from the premise that an equal society is a healthy society, the role of PCS is to examine the role of physical culture in reproducing and/or mitigating inequalities and hierarchies including, but not restricted to, those based on class, race, sex, gender, age, ability, religious, and national differences.
Our goal is to intervene into sites of physical cultural injustice and create a more equal—and healthier—society.
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