CrossFit and the cultivation of authoritarian and militaristic sensibilities in selected boxes in Manila

• Main Author: Recto, Patricia Carmela Lacson
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Exercise—Psychological aspects; Exercise—Physiological aspects; Athletes—Psychology; Athletes—Discipline; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14875
• Institution: De La Salle University

The central agenda of this thesis is to determine if discourses of authoritarianism and militarism are integral or merely cosmetic to the framework of CrossFit as practiced in selected locations in Manila. The questions prepared for my respondents were designed to target how militaristic and authori...