| Project/Area Number |
23KF0284
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 外国 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
倉島 哲 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (70378884)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
BRESSON JONATHAN 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-11-15 – 2026-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | Emotion / Body / Health / Pedagogy / Sport / Martial Arts / Ethnography |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
By an analysis of martial arts teaching and training in Japan, we seek to develop an understanding of the link between emotions, the body and the definition and experience of violence in Japanese culture. Our study will allow us to compare the way of managing distances, the rhythm of the exchange and the way of entering and leaving the interaction taught in Japan to the way they are taught in France. This will allow us to compare two different cultures of violence, i.e. two ways of perceiving and managing violence.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Our aim is to investigate the role and importance of the body, and above all of emotions, in martial arts in Japan through an in-depth ethnographic survey. The research began at the end of November, thus during the second half of the fiscal year. This preliminary period was to be dedicated to the transition to this new research, settling in Japan, making contacts and gathering information, and to start literature analysis. These objectives were successfully met.
We took care of all the administrative formalities and organized everything in such a way as to enable us to set up on our own in Osaka. The priority was to be able to get easily to both Kwansei Gakuin University and the research sites, located in Osaka.
We spoke at the 33rd Congress of the Japan Sociology of Sport Society. This enabled us to gather a large number of contacts with a view to collaborating over the 2024-2025 period (starting in October). We also published an article in the Japan Jounal of Sport Sociology about our previous research. This provides us with a tipping point towards current research and future publications.
In parallel, I have been working on an analysis of Merleau-Ponty's complete works and thinking about combination with Erving Goffman's sociology in order to build a strong theoretical framework. I started research on martial arts styles and clubs in Kansai. I joined a Karate club where I began my ethnography on March 05, 2024. The ethnography is already well advanced, with 20 observation sessions completed and 200,000 characters of note-taking.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The administrative procedures involved in setting up were time-consuming. Health adjustments, including intensive sport and a new lifestyle, also required time to adapt (old wounds, diet, rhythms). These factors took time away from Japanese language learning, which is now a priority.
Nevertheless, data collection is progressing more smoothly than originally planned. We were able to start the fieldwork earlier. The data concerning the pedagogical dimension, the relationship to the body, collective and individual emotions are more significant than expected for the first phase. The technical dimension, in terms of distance and emotional expression, is easier to understand and clearer than expected. This will enable us to make cross-checks as soon as July. We also have a whole range of unexpected data on sport for health that is particularly interesting. This will offer a new and complementary direction to our work on the development of adapted martial arts. There is a lot of ground to cover, and it will take time, but it is promising.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The primary aim is to continue the in-depth ethnography and add further data from June onwards. The main data collection period will run from July 2024 to July 2025.
Currently, the fieldwork requires 24h a week. It includes 14 hours of investment, distributed as follows: Collective training (3), 5h30. Individual technical training (3), 5h30. Physical preparation (3), 3h. Writing fieldwork is divided up as follows: 6 hours of observation transcriptions (3 sessions), 4 hours of reflective writing and pre-analysis (2 sessions). Reading work requires around 10h per week. To this must be added the time required for exchanges between researchers, administrative management and scientific writing.
This ethnographic study in sport sociology is physically very demanding. Nevertheless, the aim is to continue the ethnography in this central field, and to add secondary fields for the purpose of cross-checking data. To this will be added monthly observations of two afternoons of Tui shou meetings (Osaka; Kyoto). We will also be observing one/two additional training sessions per week. The choice of club(s) is still under discussion, for practical reasons of scheduling and physical limitations. For health and methodological considerations, we have set a physical limit of 20 hours of training per week and 14 of transcription. The ideal goal would be to obtain 120 to 150 observation sessions on the main field and 60 to 75 observation sessions on secondary fields. To this will be added interviews with French practitioners (starting May) and Japanese practitioners (starting November).
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