“Is There Going to Be Another Competition Today?”

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2022.660405

Annie McCarthy

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Abstract

Valued for its affective and material affordances, competition has long been fundamental to children's participation in development. Despite this, the experiential and material worlds of child competitors have long been overlooked. Combining ethnographic insights from fieldwork in a Delhi NGO with archival sources and reflections on the legacies of Enlightenment philosophy, this article offers a child-centered corrective to Thomas Malaby's call to focus studies of games on institutions and their projects. Additionally, heeding Liisa Malkki's challenge to reconceptualize children as persons and not just as elementary forms of shared humanity, I argue that it is only through sustained engagement with children's experiences and material contributions to competition that we can properly understand how these frequently exceed—and trouble—institutional aims.

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“今天会有另一场比赛吗?”

长期以来，竞争因其情感和物质上的支持而受到重视，是儿童参与发展的基础。尽管如此，儿童运动员的经验和物质世界长期以来一直被忽视。本文结合了来自德里非政府组织田野调查的民族志见解、档案资料和对启蒙哲学遗产的反思，为Thomas Malaby将游戏研究重点放在机构及其项目上的呼吁提供了以儿童为中心的纠正。此外，我注意到Liisa Malkki的挑战，将儿童重新定义为人，而不仅仅是共同人性的基本形式，我认为只有通过持续参与儿童的经历和对竞争的物质贡献，我们才能正确理解这些经常超出和麻烦的机构目标。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.