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Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of vélo worlds

Shilling, Chris (2021) Body pedagogics, culture and the transactional case of vélo worlds. European Journal of Social Theory, . ISSN 1368-4310. (doi:10.1177/1368431021996642) (KAR id:85853)

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Abstract

During the past two decades, there has been a significant growth of sociological studies into the ‘body pedagogics’ of cultural transmission, reproduction and change. Rejecting the tendency to over-valorise cognitive information, these investigations have explored the importance of corporeal capacities, habits and techniques in the processes associated with belonging to specific ‘ways of life’. Focused on practical issues associated with ‘knowing how’ to operate within specific cultures, however, body pedagogic analyses have been less effective at accounting for the incarnation of cultural values. Addressing this limitation, with reference to the radically diverse norms involved historically and contemporarily in ‘vélo worlds’, I develop Dewey’s pragmatist transactionalism by arguing that the social, material and intellectual processes involved in learning physical techniques inevitably entail a concurrent entanglement with, and development of, values.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/1368431021996642
Uncontrolled keywords: Body pedagogics, Dewey, embodiment, transactionalism, Vélo worlds
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Sian Robertson
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 10:40 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Jul 2023 10:51 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/85853 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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