Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC, 8001, Australia.
CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Cruz Quebrada, Lisbon, Portugal.
Sports Med. 2024 May;54(5):1071-1084. doi: 10.1007/s40279-023-01981-3. Epub 2023 Dec 26.
In our societally extractive age, sport science risks being swept up in the intensifying desire to commodify the experiences of those that scientists proclaim to study. Coupled with the techno-digital revolution, this stems from a vertical (onto)logic that frames the sporting landscape as a static space filled with discrete objects waiting for us to capture, analyse, re-present and sell on as knowledge. Not only does this commodification degrade primary experience in the false hope of epistemological objectivity, it reinforces the unidirectionality of extractivism by setting inquirer apart from, and above of, inquiry. Here, we advocate for a different, more sentient logic grounded in the relationality of gifting as understood in indigenous philosophies. This foregrounds an ecological orientation to scholarship that sets out neither to objectify or describe that which is of concern, but to correspond with its becoming. On this, there are three threads we cast forward. First, in a corresponsive sport science, inhabitants are not objects of analysis, but lines in-becoming, who in answering to others, form knots in a meshwork. These knots constitute communal places in which inhabitants have joined with the differentiating coming-into-being of others. Second, knowledge is not authoritatively (re)cognitive, but humbly ecological; not produced vertically through imposition, but grown longitudinally in responsively moving from place to place. Third, research does not follow a vertically extractive (onto)logic, but is a practice of participant observation. This perspective appreciates that we, sport scientists, are also lines in-becoming that form parts of the knots in which we seek to know. In coda, our thesis is not a call for more qualitative or applied research in the sport sciences. It is a call to response-ably open up to that which sparks our curiosity, answering to what is shared with care, sensitivity and sincerity.
在我们这个社会剥削的时代，运动科学有被卷入到将科学家声称要研究的人的经验商品化的强烈愿望中的风险。加上技术数字革命，这源于一种垂直（onto）逻辑，将体育景观框架为一个充满离散物体的静态空间，等待我们去捕捉、分析、重新呈现并作为知识出售。这种商品化不仅使原始体验在认识论客观性的虚假希望中退化，而且通过将探究者与探究本身分离开来并置于其之上，从而强化了剥削的单向性。在这里，我们倡导一种不同的、更有感知力的逻辑，这种逻辑基于土著哲学中所理解的馈赠关系。这突显了一种以礼物关系为基础的学术生态取向，既不以客观化或描述为目的，也不以对应其发展为目的。在此，我们提出了三个思路。首先，在相应的运动科学中，居民不是分析的对象，而是正在成为的线条，他们在回应他人时，在网络中形成结。这些结构成了居民与他人差异化的共同场所。其次，知识不是权威性的（再）认知，而是谦逊的生态；不是通过强加垂直产生，而是在响应性地从一个地方移动到另一个地方的过程中纵向生长。第三，研究不遵循垂直的（onto）逻辑，而是一种参与观察的实践。这种观点认为，我们，运动科学家，也是正在成为的线条，构成了我们试图了解的结的一部分。在尾声中，我们的论点不是呼吁在运动科学中进行更多的定性或应用研究。这是一种呼吁，要对激发我们好奇心的事物做出回应，以关心、敏感和真诚的态度回应共同的事物。
