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Research paper thumbnail of Pain in the Act: The Meanings of Pain Among Professional Wrestlers

Qualitative Sociology, 2008

This paper draws upon the relational turn in the study of pain to understand and explain the ways... more This paper draws upon the relational turn in the study of pain to understand and explain the ways in which professional wrestlers manage and make sense of physical suffering. The paper focuses on how pain-laden interactions in the ring and the gym give form to the ways in which participants of wrestling think and feel about pain. The research is based on a long-term ethnography of professional wrestling. The article does two things: (a) explores the bodily skills that wrestlers cultivate to handle a context of ever-present pain, and (b) explains what the wrestlers’ interactions tell us about the meanings of pain that wrestlers come to share. Based on the reconstruction of participants’ lived experience of pro wrestling, I suggest that pain becomes attractive to wrestlers because it is given substantive meaning which encompasses denial, authenticity, solidarity, and dominance.

Research paper thumbnail of Impuesto Unificado de Fondo de Pobres TEORIA

El hecho generador de este impuesto está constituido por la realización de uno de los siguientes ... more El hecho generador de este impuesto está constituido por la realización de uno de los siguientes eventos:

Research paper thumbnail of Pain in the Act: The Meanings of Pain Among Professional Wrestlers

Qualitative Sociology, 2008

This paper draws upon the relational turn in the study of pain to understand and explain the ways... more This paper draws upon the relational turn in the study of pain to understand and explain the ways in which professional wrestlers manage and make sense of physical suffering. The paper focuses on how pain-laden interactions in the ring and the gym give form to the ways in which participants of wrestling think and feel about pain. The research is based on a long-term ethnography of professional wrestling. The article does two things: (a) explores the bodily skills that wrestlers cultivate to handle a context of ever-present pain, and (b) explains what the wrestlers’ interactions tell us about the meanings of pain that wrestlers come to share. Based on the reconstruction of participants’ lived experience of pro wrestling, I suggest that pain becomes attractive to wrestlers because it is given substantive meaning which encompasses denial, authenticity, solidarity, and dominance.

Research paper thumbnail of Impuesto Unificado de Fondo de Pobres TEORIA

El hecho generador de este impuesto está constituido por la realización de uno de los siguientes ... more El hecho generador de este impuesto está constituido por la realización de uno de los siguientes eventos:

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