{"title":"The development of Kano’s judo within Japanese civilizing/decivilizing processes","authors":"R. Sánchez-García","doi":"10.1080/21640599.2016.1186583","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyses the complex development of judo from the figurational approach of Norbert Elias. Judo was not the creation of a sole genius, Jigoro Kano, but was progressively developed within a social blind process of whole figurations affected by specific balances between civilizing/decivilizing trends. Jigoro Kano systematized judo in order to offer a modern, formal educational tool for character-building of the youth. Nonetheless, it is argued that some unintended consequences from his original plan resulted in a very different and contrary phenomenon: Kano’s innovations gave birth to systematized mass education means that would be later used to instill a militarized ethos among the whole population; Kano helped to link judo and modern budo with the sport world (through the Olympic movement) and tied their future development to the sport figuration towards professionalization and ‘striving achievement’.","PeriodicalId":320773,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2016.1186583","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This paper analyses the complex development of judo from the figurational approach of Norbert Elias. Judo was not the creation of a sole genius, Jigoro Kano, but was progressively developed within a social blind process of whole figurations affected by specific balances between civilizing/decivilizing trends. Jigoro Kano systematized judo in order to offer a modern, formal educational tool for character-building of the youth. Nonetheless, it is argued that some unintended consequences from his original plan resulted in a very different and contrary phenomenon: Kano’s innovations gave birth to systematized mass education means that would be later used to instill a militarized ethos among the whole population; Kano helped to link judo and modern budo with the sport world (through the Olympic movement) and tied their future development to the sport figuration towards professionalization and ‘striving achievement’.