People, Passions — but What about Politics?

Schwell, Alexandra; Szogs, Nina; Kowalska, Małgorzata Zofia; Buchowski, Michał

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“…Im Sammelband "FC St. Pauli: zur Ethnographie eines Vereins", herausgegeben von Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber geht es weniger um die Praktiken der Sporttreibenden, die Fans, dieses vielfach als links und emanzipatorisch verstandenen Vereins (Schmidt-Lauber, 2003). Die Fanforschung dominiert insbesondere für das Feld des Fussballs wie Numerato, 2016;Schwell u. a., 2016;Eggeling, 2005;Schmidt-Lauber, 2009a;Heissenberger, 2018zeigen. Vgl.…”

Section: Triathlon In Den Humanities -Ein üBerblickunclassified

Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

Krahn¹

2021

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The «bricoleur» is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but, unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with «whatever is at hand», that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions or destructions. The set of the «bricoleur's» means [. . . ] is to be defined only by its potential use or, putting this another way and in the language of the «bricoleur» himself, because the elements are collected or retained on the principle that «they may always come in handy». Such elements are specialized up to a point, sufficiently for the «bricoleur» not to need the equipment and knowledge of all trades and professions, but not enough for each of them to have only one definite and determinate use".Der Umfang der einzelnen Unterkapitel, bei denen ich mich mit den angewandten Methoden auseinandersetze, sind unterschiedlich umfangreich ausgefallen. Dies spiegelt weder eine Wertigkeit der Methoden wider, noch den Umfang, in dem sie Anwendung fanden. Viel eher habe ich bewusst versucht, methodologische Überlegungen an den Stellen auszubauen, an denen mein Feld diese Überlegungen erforderlich gemacht hat -diese Anforderungen variieren. Besonders augenscheinlich ist dies bei den Methoden, die im Fachzusammenhang in den Kulturwissenschaften nicht omnipräsent sind. Darunter fallen beispielsweise die Autoethnografie, die Bewegten Interviews und die Mental Maps. Auch die Fotoethnografie hat ein hohes Mass an methodisch-analytischer Auseinandersetzung erfordert, auch wenn die Analysen dieser Materialien innerhalb der Arbeit nur einen kleinen Teil ausmachen. Das Kapitel 5 stellt eine Ethnografie der praktizierenden Triathlet * innen dar, die zwar nicht alle relevanten Aspekte behandelt, doch szenenspezifische Besonderheiten herausarbeitet. Daher ist dieses Kapitel besonders umfangreich ausgefallen. Allen Kapiteln ausser der Einleitung und dem Schlussteil habe ich kurze inhaltliche Übersichten vorangestellt. Den Kapiteln 2 -4 habe ich übergeordnete Fazite angefügt, in den Kapiteln 5 und 6 finden sich derartige Zusammenfassungen zu den einzelnen Unterkapiteln -entsprechend der thematischen Weitläufigkeit dieser Kapitel. Ausserdem habe ich die aus dem Triathlon entlehnten Begrifflichkeiten, die in den Hauptüberschriften wiederzufinden sind, um Erklärungen aus dem Bereich des Triathlons ergänzt, wie im Abschnitt zum Wettkampfreglement geschehen. Ich verbrachte viele Stunden schwimmend, radfahrend und rennend, unterrichtete Trainings, war allein, mit Freunden, mit beforschten Triathlet * innen, im Wald, auf der Finnenbahn, in ...

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Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

Krahn¹

2021

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“…In such studies, sport and movement are not analysed as isolated phenomena, but the specific cultural practices and interpretations and their relations to sociocultural processes are emphasised. However, most of this existing literature focuses on fan culture rather than on the recreational athletes themselves (Herd 2016;Schwell et al 2016); and despite the number of recreational endurance athletes involved in, for example, running, road cycling or triathlon, 1 there is still relatively little literature on those who do not compete at a professional level, but rather in their leisure time.Furthermore, while the importance of an inclusion of the senses in research on sport in general has been highlighted (for example Allen-Collinson and Owton 2015), this does not hold true for the role that the senses play for recreational athletes. We argue…”

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“…We take up discussions on the senses and sport and shed light on the sensory dimensions of actually participating in recreational sport against a backdrop of ethnological studies on sport spectators (Giulianotti and Armstrong 1997;Schmidt-Lauber 2003;Gray et al 2007;Eggeling 2010;Sülzle 2014;Herd 2016;Schwell et al 2016), embodied analyses on the body and sport (Lewis 2000;Wacquant 2004;Downey 2005;Kumate and Falcous 2017) and studies employing sensory approaches to sport (Lund 2005;Hockey 2006;Spinney 2006;Sparkes 2009;Gopinath and Stanyek 2013). Rather than probing into or highlighting isolated senses (i.e.…”

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“…More recently, discussions on violent sports, such as mixed martial arts, shed light on the social perceptions of appropriate levels of violence (Kestler-Joosten 2013) and, thus, on the importance of sociopolitical aspects for an understanding of sport. This has been a truism in ethnological studies on sports, particularly with a focus on sports fans and spectators (Herd 2016;Schwell et al 2016). 7 The relationship between sport and social background in its historic dimension and regarding the life worlds of athletes has been analysed in studies on workers' sport (Stiller 1991;Schönberger 1995), on sport and integration (Braun and Nobis 2011), on sport and gender (Brinkel 2008;Besnier 2012;cf.…”

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Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

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Krahn

2017

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Sport has become increasingly popular with recreational athletes over the last couple of decades. This has only gained minimal attention so far from scholars interested in the relations between recreational sports and everyday culture. With this paper, we seek to contribute to this field by scrutinising the sensory dimensions of recreational sport. Rather than probing into or highlighting isolated senses, we look at sensory dimensions understood as a combination of different, non-separable sensory experiences featured in recreational endurance sports. We are interested in how the senses play a role for recreational endurance athletes in running, triathlon and cycling both in training and competition. We start by examining how cultural and social dimensions are inextricably linked to doing sports. Secondly, we show how different configurations of the senses and their communicative mediation are contingent on sport disciplines, specific settings, technology, development and change as sensory careers over time. Thirdly, we discuss the kinaesthetic dimensions of doing sports in relation to the senses and the role of atmospheres. We conclude by arguing that highlighting specific senses by athletes is a cultural practice that calls for a holistic analysis of senses in sport, and outline some methodological implications for research on the senses. Going to the gym, attending yoga classes, jogging or cycling are part of everyday routines for many people, permeating everyday practices and shaping parts of everyday culture. Being a member of a fitness studio, a local sports club, participating in marathons or cycling races, as well as being physically active in general, has become an integral part of everyday routines and a broad spectrum of lifestyles. Advertisements on TV, lifestyle reports in magazines and self-presentations in social media feature the ideal of the active sportsman and -woman; health insurance institutions and health ministries foster these images as benefits claimed from an active lifestyle. Rather than having to justify oneself for doing sport, one has to justify oneself for not doing sport. Endurance sports take up a considerable share of such sporting activities and images of fitness and healthiness. The lunch run at work, the bike ride with a local club in the evenings, 5K races or city marathons, as well as sports holidays, such as cycling vacations or training camps (Strüver 2010) -endurance sports like these have become a frequent and important part of everyday culture, shaping leisure time as well as perceptions of the self (Krahn and Groth 2017). As European ethnologist Wolfgang Kaschuba (1989: 154) argued more than two decades ago, "sportivity" as a "social pattern of behavior and interpretation" has become "omnipresent" and "taken for granted". This image still holds: runners, cyclists and other recreational athletes in public spaces are perceived as normal, and mega events, such as city marathons, are a common part of urban event calendars (Berking and Neckel 1993;Müller 2015). Pra...

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People, Passions — but What about Politics?

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Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

Triathlon – auf der Strecke und darüber hinaus. Eine Ethnografie zur Erfahrung von Körper, Bewegung und Raum

Sensing Athletes: Sensory Dimensions of Recreational Endurance Sports

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