See Spot Run: Movement as an Object of Textual Analysis

Markula, Pirkko; Denison, Jim

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“…Wrestling with the dualities of reflection versus dancing, and of conceptualizing versus experiencing, does occur (Markula and Denison 2000;Markula 2006aMarkula , 2006bDenison and Markula 2003). Already in 1953, Susanne Langer posed the relevant question Does dance provide access to an authentic prelinguistic (natural) body?…”

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“…Performance studies may study movement, and the research results may be bodily presented, but ultimately, articles, books and theses result. Movement is threatened with becoming the study of motion (Markula and Denison 2000) and dance with becoming a concept of presence (Lepecki 2004(Lepecki , 2006. Kinesthetic introspection, proprioceptive awareness, and personal movement experiences just do not (easily) make it into text.…”

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Research ethics: Dance, presence, performance and performativity

Letiche

2012

Culture and Organization

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Embracing via Levinas the face as the origin of ethics, I explore here the research ethics of openness. If research is responsive, it will have to face up to the other. Face -as the presence of personal identity, singularity and self -is my theme.Research that sees and acknowledges or ignores and denies the face of the other is at issue. The turn in research to performance tries to make face more visiblenot just researched/researchers' words, but also their gestures, postures and bodies are to be attended to. Performance studies, interwoven with contemporary dance, seem to me to intend the penultimate effort at face by trying to gain entry into shared meaning, emotion, statement and relationship. But can research achieve consciousness-of-face to be identified with the ability to care, experience and know or is research characterized by dissymmetry and inherent inequality? The thought experiment undertaken here is 'Does the assertion of face, with contemporary dance as exemplar, lead to a research ethic (also, thus, for organizational studies) where the presence of other wins from self-centeredness and/or resignation?'. IntroductionThis article is about responsiveness. Phenomenology and/or ethnography today confront a dominant culture of voyeurism, venality, reality-show obsession and 'me-me-me'. Researchers seem to rarely succeed in repelling the ugly face(s) of postmodern hypercapitalism. A (research) politics of resignation seems to dominate wherein researcher response ability is minimized and the reign of hyper-capitalism is accepted. Instead of confronting current crises, conflicts, and risks in the faces of the researchers and researched, response ability appears to be disappearing into anonymity. Not facing -if not on an eye-to-eye, at least on eye level -the contemporary destruction of security, welfare and more, seems ethically, emotionally and politically unacceptable. A horrendously passive, wantonly resigned and irresponsibly indifferent episteme seems to dominate.Ž ižek (1989) has coined the phrase the 'politics of resignation' to describe the crisis in ethics that results from taking a capitalism-centered view of existence to be inevitable. A casino version of speculation, wealth and inequality, and a trader's mentality of getting-rich-quick, is the norm. Individual consumerism assuages critique, doubts and

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Research ethics: Dance, presence, performance and performativity

Letiche

2012

Culture and Organization

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“…In all other Western societies, sports are only mentioned in a few books by a small group of authors (D' Arcy and Saemundsson 2004, 67-8). Why this is so is a complicated question, where we have to take into account factors such as the traditional difference in esteem between the physical and spiritual sides of the individual (Markula and Denison 2000;D'Arcy 2003). This could be an exciting research project for literary scholars.…”

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Hyped Virtues, Hidden Vices: The Ethics of Icelandic Sports Literature

Sæmundsson

Kristjánsson

2011

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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Ideally, good sports literature illuminates the subtle moral contours of sports reality. We ask in this paper how modern Icelandic literature describes sport-related ethical issues and attitudes. Our findings indicate that, in stark contrast to the rampant egocentrism, individual vice and misconduct blighting Icelandic sports reality, modern Icelandic prose literature typically either ignores this reality or refers to sports as if they were in full harmony with idealised ancient virtues and morals. Our conclusion is that this discrepancy admits of four possible interpretations: that (1) theories about the individualism and egocentricity of modernity do not apply in Iceland and in Icelandic sports; (2) the writers are seriously self-deceived; (3) the writers write their books for the deliberate purpose of deceiving the public; (4) the writers write their books for the deliberate purpose of preaching. Our answer is that, while there may be reason to foreground (4), the explanation lies in a combination of those four factors. ResumenGute Sportliteratur zeichnet sich idealerweise durch die Akzentuierung der feinen moralischen Konturen des tatsächlichen Sports aus. Wir fragen in diesem Aufsatz, wie die moderne isländische sportbezogene Literatur ethische Fragen und Haltungen formuliert. Unsere Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass -im Gegensatz zu dem überhandnehmenden Egoismus, den individuellen Lastern und Verfehlungen, die die isländische Sportwirklichkeit geißeln -diese Entwicklungen in der modernen isländischen Prosaliteratur in der Regel entweder ignoriert werden oder diese so tut, als gäbe es nur eine Sportwelt voller Harmonie und klassischer Tugend und Moral. Unsere Schlussfolgerung ist, dass diese Diskrepanz vier mögliche Interpretationen zulässt: dass (1) Theorien über Individualismus und Egozentrik der Moderne in Island und im Isländischen Sport nicht anwendbar sind, (2) die Autoren einer schweren Selbsttäuschung unterliegen, (3) jene Autoren ihre Bücher bewusst zum Zweck der Täuschung der Ö ffentlichkeit schreiben, (4) derartige Schriftsteller ihre Bücher bewusst als Predigttext verfasst haben. Unsere Schlussfolgerung ist, dass -trotz einer Favorisierung von Interpretation (4) -die Erklärung in einer Kombination dieser vier Faktoren zu suchen ist. ZusammenfassungIdealmente, la literatura del deporte de calidad ilumina los sutiles contornos morales de la realidad deportiva. Nosotros preguntamos en este artículo como la literartura moderna islándica describe actitudes y temas éticos relacionados con el deporte. Nuestros hayazgos indican que, en marcado contraste con el egocentrismo rampante, el vicio individual y el mal comportamiento Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 2011.5:379-395.que asolan la realidad deportiva islándica, la prosa literaria islándica moderna típicamente o bien ignora esta realidad o bien se refiere a los deportes como si estuviesen en completa armonía con las idealizadas virtudes y valores morales antiguos. Nuestra conclusión es que esta discrepancia admite cuatro posibles interpretaciones: que ...

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“…The article is based on the findings and results of a three-year-long study of a group of gameplayers' activities and experiences across different digital games and media platforms. The presented findings and results emerged through the use of a multimethodology (Brannen 2005, Mingers andBrocklesby 1997) that combined a grounded theory method approach (Allen 2003, Bryant and Charmaz 2011, Charmaz 2006, Haig 1995 with phenomenography (Allen-Collinson 2009, Casey 1987, Hockey and Allen-Collinson 2007, Markula and Denison 2000, Straus 1963, remix methods and interpretative ethnography (Markham 2004, Markham 2005, Markham 2006, Markham 2012 as well as visual methods (Banks 2006, Pink 2004, Pink 2011). The present article will, with the abovementioned works and concluded study as its foundation, present some of the study's main methodological developments, results and findings.…”

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Talking Tacitly: Activities and Experiences in Higly Interactive Media

Nørgård¹

2014

Nordicom Review

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Some media forms we primarily take in with our senses, like movies, music or text. Other media forms are more like activities that we have to carry out with our body such as digital games on the PC, console, smart phone or tablet. Here, we are not allowed to sit still and take media in with our senses. In order to grasp this otherness and uniqueness of digital games it is not sufficient to re-use adapted media theories, concepts, methods and ways of writing. This article is written on the realization that the theories and methods we approach a research area, activity or experience with will set the boundaries of our understanding. And the ways we represent our understanding in writing to others will subsequently set the boundaries of their understanding. In this way, the article is an attempt of erecting boundaries in new ways and placing them in unfamiliar places through the use of alternative and alien methods, theories and styles of writing. This is done in order to let new formations of studying, thinking and talking about activities and experiences in highly interactive media emerge.

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See Spot Run: Movement as an Object of Textual Analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

Research ethics: Dance, presence, performance and performativity

Research ethics: Dance, presence, performance and performativity

Hyped Virtues, Hidden Vices: The Ethics of Icelandic Sports Literature

Talking Tacitly: Activities and Experiences in Higly Interactive Media

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