Excitação e disciplina: a crise de identidade e as transformações culturais do judô contemporâneo

Abstract

In this dissertation i investigate the transformations of the Judo culture and its consequent crisis of contemporary identity, manifested in an inseparable way through the practice and teaching of the Soft Way in the dojo. To this end, I turn to history to trace the origin of Judo as a martial art and its differentials in relation to the martial arts prior to it, in order to frame it as a representation of the union between the "old" and the "new" in Japan, in an intense process of westernization between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, more than 100 years after it’s founding, Judo underwent an intense process of transformation while expanding in the West and gaining space in the media and society through its sportivization, where ruptures and permanences are present taking this Judo to be, in essence, different from that systematized by its founder Jigoro Kano. Examining how these transformations manifest themselves today in the daily practice and teaching of Judo is the core of the research, focusing on the coexistence between the new and the old, sport and martial art, competition / play and traditional. To that end, I am based on the general framework of Cultural Studies of Education as a tool for understanding the different "Judoist cultures" that currently permeate Judo, manifesting itself under a variety of different specific objectives, according to the teachers' ") Planned and applied in class. The methodology chosen was the qualitative research, through the case study of three distinct classes of a dojo in the city of João Pessoa, in which data will be collected by observing the classes of each one of them, describing both the promoted actions and the students' behavior habitus, in an Eliasian approach. I intend to contribute to the studies of the area by assisting teachers and scholars in the area on the importance of the relationship between culture (and its manifestations: identities, representations, perspectives) and the teaching / practice of Judo in contemporary times.