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See Spot Run: Movement as an Object of Textual Analysis

University of Waikato

Jim Denison

University of Waikato

As physically active people and researchers of physical activity, the authors have trouble translating their movement experiences into words. To them, words seem inadequate for expressing the physical, therefore, "How does one research movement?" The authors first questioned textual representations of movement and sport in a 1996 conference presentation. This article includes their personal movement experiences as a dancer and a runner to discuss the nature of contemporary social science research. The authors demonstrate how any experience, not just movement, is always transferred into an object of textual analysis. This conclusion has led the authors to question the privileged nature of language and written research, which they believe turns movement into a disembodied practice. Furthermore, always representing movement experiences with words may mean failing to ask critical questions concerning what it means to be human.

Key Words: ethnography • dance • mind/body • sport

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