Phenomenology and embodiment in cross-cultural sporting contexts: a case of Chinese female students

Liu, Lucen; Howe, P. David

doi:10.1080/21640599.2013.782713

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“…These immediate feelings obtained from our bodies, such as from our senses, can be called embodied experiences (Johnson, 1999; Sparkes, 2009). A growing body of studies have explored varied embodied sporting experiences, such as risk, pain and injury, time and space, and aesthetic, sensuous and gendered feelings, through the phenomenological lens (Allen-Collinson, 2003, 2009, 2011b; Allen-Collinson and Hockey, 2001; Chisholm, 2008; Hockey and Allen-Collinson, 2007; Inglis and Hughson, 2000; Liu and Howe, 2012; McNarry et al, 2020; Wessinger, 1994; Woodward, 2009).…”

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Paddling with Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Exploring the moving body in sport

Liu

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical discussion and empirical application of phenomenology in the sociology of sport by drawing on Maxine Sheets-Johnstone’s theories. I propose that Sheets-Johnstone’s movement-focused phenomenology can be complementary to Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body in the analyses of sporting moves and the learning of new moves. I mainly applied two concepts from Sheets-Johnstone, tactile-kinesthetic/kinetic dynamics and emotion-motion dynamics, to explore the moving body in waka ama (outrigger canoe) paddling, based on my beginner’s and other competent paddlers’ experiences. Findings demonstrate that a moving/paddling body is spontaneously a tactile-kinesthetic/kinetic, emotion-motion and intercorporeal body. These bodily dimensions enrich our understandings of the ways of learning new movements, doing sport and doing sport together.

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