- Title
- Discipline and the dojo
- Creator
- Parkes, Robert John
- Relation
- Re-theorizing Discipline in Education: Problems, Politics & Possibilities p. 76-90
- Relation
- Complicated Conversation 34
- Relation
- http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54288
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This chapter is concerned with the productive nature of discipline. That is, with what subjection within and to a discipline 'produces'. More specifically, I am concerned with the way a "subject comes into being ... comes to mastery, comes into existence and agency, through subjection" (Petersen, 2007, p. 477). I use martial arts training as a case study for my investigation because it is so frequently depicted as a site of 'serious' discipline; a somewhat 'inflexible' discipline that practitioners more or less willingly subject themselves to in order to attain mastery of the art under study. My aim is to develop an understanding of the deliberate act of subjection that is implicated in the disciplining process by which the individual is transformed through the martial arts. Resting upon Michel Foucault's (1980, 1982/1994) thesis on the 'double nature' of power, I argue in this chapter for both the constraining and enabling effects of discipline as it manifests in and through the martial arts and investigate the way discipline is central to the act of becoming in the dojo.
- Subject
- discipline; subjection; martial arts
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932482
- Identifier
- uon:11371
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781433109669
- Language
- eng
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