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Embodiment, information practices and documentation: a study of mid-life martial artists
University of Technology Sydney, Australia;Association for Information Science and Technology, USA.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0576-036x
2019 (English)In: Information research, E-ISSN 1368-1613, Vol. 24, no 4, article id colis1928Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Introduction. This study explores the concepts of embodied documentation and embodied information practices in the context of a study of martial artists in mid-life and beyond. The focus of this paper will be the practices through which they develop, maintain and share the embodied knowledge needed to pursue their martial arts.

Method and analysis. Data collection included semi-structured interviewing, ethnographic fieldwork with participant observation and reflective writing. Analysis was undertaken using an inductive, thematic approach.

Results. Participants’ information practices are social, multi-sensory and embodied in nature. The findings reveal the importance of nonconscious information practices aligned with the Zen Buddhist concept of mushin (無心の心). The study’s findings demonstrate that martial arts embodied information practices are unquestionably codified, embedded in long standing traditions of ‘correct’ practice.

Conclusions. Participants’ embodied practice related explicitly to the codified martial arts form manifested through movements, technique and postures. That what is learnt is not random or situational in an ontological sense. Instead, codification challenges the established notion of tacit knowledge as it carries in it structured rules which relate to a documentary status of the embodied practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Högskolan i Borås, 2019. Vol. 24, no 4, article id colis1928
Keywords [en]
Information practice, embodied information practice, embodiment, documentation, matial arts
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Information Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90614ISI: 000508204300034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-90614DiVA, id: diva2:1380614
Conference
10th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 16-19, 2019
Available from: 2019-12-19 Created: 2019-12-19 Last updated: 2022-02-10Bibliographically approved

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