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Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2025. Self-defence as ideology: myth, masculinity, and the epistemology of ignorance. Martial Arts Studies 18 , pp. 65-77. 10.18573/mas.284

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2025. Orientalist fever: Qigong and orientalism, East and West. Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture 4 (2) , pp. 129-146. 10.1080/27690148.2025.2482567

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2025. Somacoloniality: three figures of embodied postcolonial affect (Indian clubs, gadas, and heavy clubs). Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture Item availability restricted.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2024. Bruce Lee: Effective and affective action techniques. Barrowman, Kyle, ed. Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema, Translated from the original by Barrowman, Kyle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 41-60. (10.5040/9781350365780.ch-002)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2024. Feel the difference: The Dantian, cultural difference, and sensory remapping. Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture 3 (1) , pp. 1-19. 10.1080/27690148.2024.2327985

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2023. The birth of British self-defence: 1604-1904. Martial Arts Studies (14) , pp. 52-65. 10.18573/mas.182

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, Channon, Alex, Judkins, Benjamin, Miller, Lauren and Wong, Wayne 2023. Editorial: The mirrored maze of Martial Arts Studies: From research network to scholarly association. Martial Arts Studies 2023 (14) , pp. 1-10. 10.18573/mas.186

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, Aziz, Izzati and Ma, Xiujie 2023. Translating tai chi and transforming qigong in British media culture. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 2023 (Sept) , pp. 173-190. 10.1386/eapc_00106_1

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2023. Daryl Joji Maeda, Like water: a cultural history of Bruce Lee [Book review]. American Literary History 35 (2) , pp. 1097-1099. 10.1093/alh/ajad067

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2023. BJJ's diary: The emergence of a new normal. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 3 (1) , pp. 90-98.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, Griffith, Lauren, Judkins, Benjamin N. and Wong, Wayne 2023. Martial Arts Studies, issue 13, Editorial. Martial Arts Studies (13) , pp. 1-5. 10.18573/mas.172

Meyer, Martin J., Molle, Andrea, Judkins, Benjamin N. and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2021. Martial arts in the pandemic. Martial Arts Studies (11) , pp. 7-31. 10.18573/mas.134

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2021. The invention of martial arts: popular culture between Asia and America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Ma, Xiujie 2021. 亚洲传统武术“ 正宗性冶淤的发明 [The invention of "authenticity" in traditional Asian martial arts]. Journal of Chengdu Sport University 47 (2) , pp. 136-142. 10.15942/j.jcsu.2021.02.022

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. Metamorphoses of martial arts: meditations on motivations and motive forces during the COVID-19 pandemic. Martial Arts Studies (10) , pp. 128-140. 10.18573/mas.119

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2020. Five years and twelve months that changed the study of martial arts forever [Editorial]. Martial Arts Studies (10) , pp. 1-8. 10.18573/mas.117

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. From chop suey to chop-socky: the construction of Chineseness in British television adverts. JOMEC Journal 15 , pp. 1-29. 10.18573/jomec.198

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. The tradition of invention: on authenticity in traditional Asian martial arts. Lewin, David and Kenklies, Karsten, eds. East Asian Pedagogies: Education as Formation and Transformation Across Cultures and Borders, Vol. 15. Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, Springer, pp. 205-225. (10.1007/978-3-030-45673-3_14)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. In authentic relations: traditional Asian martial arts, east and west. Hong, Fan and Zhouxiang, Lu, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 11-19.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2020. Spring 2020 Editorial. Martial Arts Studies (9) , pp. 1-5. 10.18573/mas.97

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. Guest Editorial: Open access publishing. The British Student Doctor Journal 4 (1) , pp. 3-4. 10.18573/bsdj.142

Bowman, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2020. In toxic hating masculinity: MMA hard men and media representation. Sport in History 40 (3) , pp. 395-410. 10.1080/17460263.2020.1756394

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Game of text: Bruce Lee's media legacies. Global Media and China 4 (3) , pp. 325-338. 10.1177/2059436419869565

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Fighting over Bruce Lee. Martial Arts Studies 8 , pp. 29-48. 10.18573/mas.82

Barrowman, Kyle and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Editorial: Bruce Lee's martial legacies. Martial Arts Studies 8 , pp. 1-4. 10.18573/mas.81

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Deconstructing martial arts. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press. 10.18573/book1

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Mindfulness and madness in Martial Arts philosophy. JOMAR: Journal of Martial Arts Research 2 (1) , pp. 1-17.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. The limits of post-Marxism: the (dis)function of political theory in film and cultural studies. Global Discourse / Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 9 (2) , pp. 329-345. 10.1332/204378919X15526540593598

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Fighting talk: Martial Arts discourse in mainstream films. JOMEC Journal 13 , pp. 30-50. 10.18573/jomec.186

Judkins, Benjamin N. and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. Editorial: Open issues and issues as they open. Martial Arts Studies 7 , pp. 1-4. 10.18573/mas.76

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2019. The Martial Arts supremacy: Action film and fight choreography. Kendrick, James, ed. A Companion to the Action film, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 227-240.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, ed. 2018. The Martial Arts Studies reader. Martial Arts Studies, Rowman & Littlefield International.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2018. Embodiment as embodiment of. Leigh, Jennifer, ed. Conversations on embodiment across higher education: Teaching, practice and research, Routledge, pp. 11-23.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin 2018. Editorial: New research on Japanese Martial Arts. Martial Arts Studies 6 , pp. 1-5. 10.18573/mas.70

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N., eds. 2018. Martial Arts Studies. Issue 6: New research on Japanese Martial Arts. vol. 6. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press. 10.18573/mas.i6

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, Kazakeviciute, Evelina, Boelle, Julia, Kovacevic, Petra, Makgoba, Metji and Payson, Alida ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7957-5303 2018. Editorial. JOMEC Journal (12) , pp. 1-4. 10.18573/jomec.168

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2018. Show, don't tell: Making martial arts studies matter. Martial Arts Studies 5 , pp. 1-14. 10.18573/mas.46

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2017. Editorial: Is martial arts studies trivial? Martial Arts Studies 4 , pp. 1-16. 10.18573/j.2017.10183

Judkins, Benjamin N. and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2017. Editorial. Martial Arts Studies 3 , pp. 1-5. 10.18573/j.2017.10112

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2017. The definition of Martial Arts Studies. Martial Arts Studies 3 , pp. 6-23. 10.18573/j.2017.10092

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2017. What can a martial body do for society? Or, theory before definition in Martial Arts Studies. Presented at: Martial Arts and Society Conference - On the Societal Relevance of Martial Arts, Combat Sports and Self-Defense, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany, 6-8 October 2016.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2016. The intimate schoolmaster and the ignorant sifu: Poststructuralism, Bruce Lee, and the ignorance of everyday radical pedagogy. Philosophy and Rhetoric 49 (4) , pp. 549-570. 10.5325/philrhet.49.4.0549

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2016. Making martial arts history matter. International Journal of the History of Sport 33 (9) , pp. 915-933. 10.1080/09523367.2016.1212842

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2016. Editorial: The invention of Martial Arts. Martial Arts Studies 2 , pp. 1-5. 10.18573/j.2016.10061

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2016. Poststructuralism. The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Vol. 1. [Poststructuralism]. London: Wiley, pp. 1-5. (10.1002/9781118541555.wbiepc214)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2016. Mythologies of martial arts. Rowman & Littlefield International.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin N. 2015. Editorial. Martial Arts Studies 1 , pp. 1-2. 10.18573/j.2015.10014

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2015. Asking the question: Is martial arts studies an academic field? Martial Arts Studies 1 , pp. 3-19. 10.18573/j.2015.10015

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Judkins, Benjamin, eds. 2015. Martial Arts Studies: issue 1. Martial Arts Studies, Cardiff University Press. 10.18573/n.2015.10013

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2015. Martial arts studies: disrupting disciplinary boundaries. Disruptions, London: Rowman and Littlefield International.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2014. Sex and race go pop. Machin, David, ed. Visual Communication, Handbooks of Communication Science, De Gruyter, pp. 153-171.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2014. Instituting reality in martial arts practice. JOMEC Journal (5) , 4. 10.18573/j.2014.10266

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2014. Editorial: Martial arts studies. JOMEC Journal (5) , Jun 14. 10.18573/j.2014.10262

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Reception(s) of theory. Dillet, Benoit, Mackenzie, Iain and Porter, Robert, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 445-470.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Rancière and the disciplines. Bowman, Paul, ed. Rancière and Film, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-19.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Editorial. JOMEC Journal (3) 10.18573/j.2013.10238

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Beyond Bruce Lee: Chasing the dragon through film, philosophy and popular culture. Wallflower Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, postcoloniality, ethnicity, sexuality. NewYork, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, ed. 2013. Rancière and film. Critical Connections, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Universalism and particularism in mediatized martial arts. Presented at: Universalism and Particularism in Postcolonial Media Theory, Braunschweig, Germany, 16-18 May 2013.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Autodidactics of Bits: Cultural studies and the partition of the pedagogical. Educational Philosophy and Theory 45 (6) , pp. 663-680. 10.1080/00131857.2012.723889

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2013. Popular cultural pedagogy, in theory; Or: What can cultural theory learn about learning from popular culture? Educational Philosophy and Theory 45 (6) , pp. 601-609. 10.1080/00131857.2012.723884

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. Culture and the media. Key Concerns in Media Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. Reconnecting political disconnection [Editorial]. JOMEC Journal (1) , pp. 1-4. 10.18573/j.2012.10217

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. Film culture crossover: Film fight choreography and the east/west binary after Bruce Lee. Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy 2012 (1) , 9.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. I know kung fu!? or: when Orientalism is a good thing. Presented at: ACS Crossroads Conference, Paris, France, July 2012.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. Rancière and the disciplines. Presented at: ACS Crossroads Conference, Paris, France, July 2012.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. Keeping it unreal: researching mediatized martial arts. Presented at: Researching Martial Arts in the Media and in the Gym, Cardiff , UK, 9 March 2012.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2012. How to not read Zizek. Johnson, Matthew Thomas, ed. The Legacy of Marxism : Contemporary Challenges, Conflicts, and Developments, New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, pp. 57-74.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2011. The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts, or, The “Communication” of Bruce Lee. Farrer, D. S. and Whalen-Bridge, John, eds. Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World, New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 61-96.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2011. How not to read Žižek: a reply to Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Revolution: A Critique by Alan Johnson. Global Discourse 2 (1)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 Bernardi, Floriana, ed. 2011. Studi culturali. Teoria, intervento, cultura pop. Culture Segni Comunicazione, Progedit.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Stamp, Richard, eds. 2011. Reading Ranciere. London ; New York: Continuum.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2011. Spectres of Bruce Lee. Presented at: Asian Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a global context, Coventry University, 11-12 Feb, 2011.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Stamp, Richard 2011. Introduction: a critical dissensus. Bowman, Paul and Stamp, Richard, eds. Reading Ranciere: Critical Dissensus, London: Continuum, xi.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2011. Spectres of Bruce Lee. UZAK 3 (11)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Cut the shock doctrine, radicalize common sense. Culture Machine 2010 , pp. 1-12.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Theorizing Bruce Lee: Film-fantasy-fighting-philosophy. Contemporary Cinema, vol. 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Rey Chow, postcoloniality and interdisciplinarity. Postcolonial Studies 13 (3) , pp. 231-238. 10.1080/13688790.2010.508813

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Reading Rey Chow. Postcolonial Studies 13 (3) , pp. 239-253. 10.1080/13688790.2010.508814

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Rey Chow and postcolonial social semiotics. Social Semiotics 20 (4) , pp. 329-341. 10.1080/10350330.2010.494386

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Sick man of transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Rey Chow's queer cultural translation. Social Semiotics 20 (4) , pp. 393-409. 10.1080/10350330.2010.494393

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Deconstruction is a martial Art. Houppermans, Sjef, Sneller, Rico and Zilfhout, Peter van, eds. Enduring Resistance = La Resistance Persevere : cultural theory after Derrida, Faux Titre, vol. 348. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 37-56.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, ed. 2010. The Rey Chow Reader. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. The globalization of martial arts. Green, Thomas A. and Svinth, Joseph R., eds. Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation, ABC-CLIO, pp. 435-520.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. Jeet Kune Do. Green, Thomas A. and Svinth, Joseph R., eds. Martial Arts of the World: an Encyclopedia of History and Innovation, Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 479-484.

Chow, Rey and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2010. An interview with Rey Chow. Social Semiotics 20 (4) , pp. 457-467. 10.1080/10350330.2010.494397

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2009. Aberrant Pedagogies: JR, QT and Bruce Lee. Borderlands e Journal 8 (2)

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 and Stamp, Richard 2009. Jacques Rancière: in disagreement. Parallax 15 (3) , pp. 1-2. 10.1080/13534640902982520

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2008. Deconstructing popular culture. Palgrave.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2008. Alterdisciplinarity. Culture, Theory and Critique 49 (1) , pp. 93-110. 10.1080/14735780802024281

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2007. This disagreement is not one: The populisms of Laclau, Rancière and Arditi. Social Semiotics 17 (4) , pp. 539-545. 10.1080/10350330701637114

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, ed. 2007. The truth of Zizek. Continuum.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2007. Post-Marxism versus cultural studies: theory, politics and intervention. Taking on the Political, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596, ed. 2003. Interrogating cultural studies: theory, politics and practice. Pluto Press.

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2003. Promiscuous fidelity to revolution, or, revaluing "revolutionary' left intellectualism. Contemporary Politics 9 (1) , pp. 33-44. 10.1080/1356977032000072495

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2001. Between responsibility and irresponsibility: cultural studies and the price of fish. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics 14 (2) , pp. 277-291. 10.1080/10402130120088811

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2001. Proper impropriety: The proper-ties of cultural studies (Some more aphorisms, apriorisms, and aporias). Parallax 7 (2) , pp. 50-65. 10.1080/13534640110037813

Mowitt, John and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 2000. ?- perhaps even violently, via the jolts of fashion-?: An Interview by Paul Bowman. Parallax 6 (2) , pp. 9-27. 10.1080/13534640050083765

Laclau, Ernesto and Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 1999. Politics, polemics and academics: an interview by Paul Bowman. Parallax 5 (2) , pp. 93-107. 10.1080/135346499249722

Bowman, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2264-7596 1998. Deconstructing pragmatism: A war of position (A book discussion). Parallax 4 (4) , pp. 141-145. 10.1080/135346498250064