Mourning the mascot's demise: On prehistoric origins and modern aftermath

Sydnor, Synthia

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“…Sport in its communication of excellence, movement, the human condition, and sacrifice of energy may be what is important to the core of what it is to be human (Sartre, 1956;Caillois, 1958Caillois, /2001Roberts et al, 1958;James, 1963;Loy, 1968;Bernard, 1972;Geertz, 1972;Ingham & Loy, 1974;Morford & Clark, 1976;Guttmann, 1978;Suits, 1978;Birrell, 1981;Turner, 1982;Blanchard & Cheska, 1984;Loy & Hesketh, 1984;Hanna, 1987;Sutton-Smith, 1997;Eichberg, 1998;Wertz, 1999;Ingham, 2000;Szymanski, 2006;Barthes, 2007;Hardy & Loy, 2009;Besnier & Brownell 2012;Sansone, 1988;Sydnor, 2010Sydnor, , 2015Sydnor, , 2017. For example, the delivery of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics games despite record numbers of Japanese citizens testing positive for COVID-19, and the outspoken disapproval by citizens that a sporting event take priority over people.…”

Section: The Sport For Peace/development Mythmentioning

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“…Sport in its communication of excellence, movement, the human condition, and sacrifice of energy may be what is important to the core of what it is to be human (Barthes, 2007; Bernard, 1972; Besnier & Brownell 2012; Birrell, 1981; Blanchard & Cheska, 1984; Caillois, 1958/2001; Eichberg, 1998; Geertz, 1972; Guttmann, 1978; Hanna, 1987; Hardy & Loy, 2009; Ingham, 2000; Ingham & Loy, 1974; James, 1963; Loy, 1968; Loy & Hesketh, 1984; Morford & Clark, 1976; Roberts et al, 1959; Sansone, 1988; Sartre, 1956; Suits, 1978; Sutton-Smith, 1997; Sydnor, 2010, 2015, 2017; Szymanski, 2006; Turner, 1982; Wertz, 1999). For example, the delivery of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics games despite record numbers of Japanese citizens testing positive for COVID-19, and the outspoken disapproval by citizens that a sporting event take priority over people.…”

Section: The Sport For Peace/development Mythmentioning

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Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto

Adamson

Clarke

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Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded ‘myths’ in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These ‘myths’ include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, the sport for peace/development myth, the exercise is medicine myth, the healthism and exercise myth, the compulsory ablemindedness and exercise myth, and the exercise is cost-effective myth. Using intersecting and diverging theories, we propose new ways of knowing these taken for granted notions to springboard a new, socially just, emancipatory approach to research and practice.

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Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto

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Clarke

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“…Thus, as we explore plotlessness in contemporary ethnography, we remind that the study of play has much to offer across the disciplines, across knowledge itself. There is something extraordinary about play that is crucial to the world: Richard Schechner, Kendall Blanchard and Alyce Cheska (1985), Roger Caillois, Mihai Spariosu (1997), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, James Carse (1987), Norman Denzin (1975), Bernard Suits, Victor Turner, Don Handelman, Johann Huizinga, Josef Pieper (1963), Anthony Pellegrini, Peter Smith, Brian Sutton-Smith (1986, Gregory Bateson, to name some and some are themselves ethnographers-declare this-some exhaustively-in their works (e.g., Sydnor, 2005Sydnor, , 2010. Indeed, if the ontological/epistemological foundation of readers' professional-scholarly lives is to "advance our understanding of the way groups and individuals interact and live their lives into being" (CEAD Hui/ Conference Internet Home Page, 2010), then it may be that theoretically, play is a limitless epistemology, ontology, method, and/or presentational format that deprivileges/reconciles-that intermingles more completely-our human need for story with the paradoxical, incomprehensible (plotless) nature of what it is to be human-and nonhuman.…”

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Plotlessness, Ethnography, Ethology

Sydnor

Fagen

2012

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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The authors of this article hail from perhaps disparate fields of biology and cultural studies. The authors use ethnography and ethology, which have offered parallel modernist responses to the challenge posed by Otherness, as touchstones for exploring modernist responses to the theories/methods of the research texts that are produced and performed in their respective disciplines; for example, ethnography typically promises a supreme moment of insight, an intellectual epiphany, when the trained ethnographer’s patient and painstaking field work finally cracks the code of the alien culture to reveal the philosophical and metaphysical essence that constitutes that culture’s previously baffling Otherness. Similarly, field studies of animal behavior promise a royal road to the Umwelten (encompassing worlds, milieux) of natures and cultures far more alien and “Other” than even the most exotic forms of the human condition. The article highlights that scholars in 20th-century ethnography—and, to a lesser extent, ethology—began to question these philosophical and methodological bases and that by the beginning of the 21st century, their criticisms and answers to such dilemmas sparked a range of interrelated responses, which the article briefly overviews: epistemological decentering and recontextualizing of inquiry; illumination of the tensions between, and experimentation with traditional and avant-garde rhetorical, statistical, evidence-based, performance and literary forms necessary for presentation of research; and return to and/or finer articulation of the goals of ethology and ethnography. Within these responses the authors are particularly interested in understanding “plotlessness,” a concept that emerges from recent ethnographic and ethological investigations of “Other-ology” but that is rarely dissected in ethnography. The authors further explore and refine the idea of plotlessness, especially in regard to possible commonalities that this idea might reveal in thinking about play, broadly and loosely conceived, and the “openings” that play may afford present, and future work and thought in ethnography and ethology. Reminding readers of thought on the imperatives of play, on the ordinary/extraordinary nature of play, the authors push play as an all-encompassing paradigm for scholarship across the disciplines and much more (play as core of the ontological-epistemological human condition?).

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For a Sociology of Sport

Bairner

2012

Sociology of Sport Journal

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This essay focuses on some of the main challenges that currently face the sociology of sport, the challenge from the natural sciences, the challenge from mainstream sociology and the challenge which we have set ourselves and which, requires new intellectual innovations of the type discussed in the final sections of this essay. It is vital that the sociology of sport be defended against the tyranny of the natural sciences. This project, however, must not be disaggregated from the requirements to fight for greater acceptance from mainstream sociology and to address our own shortcomings by extending the sociology of sport in potentially exciting ways. In this respect, both memory and space present interesting possibilities. They are highlighted in this essay, from among numerous possible alternatives, for largely personal reasons. The general point, however, is that if we are to defend the sociology of sport successfully, we need to be more creative, both methodologically and theoretically.

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Mourning the mascot's demise: On prehistoric origins and modern aftermath

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Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto

Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto

Plotlessness, Ethnography, Ethology

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