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AUTHOR
Carlos Gutiérrez
Reflexive Modernization and the Disembedding of Budo: Judo from 1946 to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
This article considers some of the sociologically significant changes to judo in its process of transformation from a Budo based martial art into a modern competitive spectator sport. Taking the period of time from 1946 until the Sydney Olympics, an examination is undertaken using Giddens's notion of reflexive modernization in which key aspects of the original judo are disembedded or 'lifted out' of the practice. They are then re-embedded with western structures, practices and meanings. Central themes to emerge from this analysis are the social forces of internationalization, institutionalization and commodification of judo over this period, each of which contributes to a reflexive moderniz…
El jujutsu: un sport japonés en la Barcelona de principios del siglo XX.
Jujutsu, Japanese wrestling, technical predecessor of judo, was introduced in Europe in the period between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th by professional wrestlers, through exhibitions and challenges in theatre stages. The sporting society from Barcelona, at the forefront of progress, welcomed this combat system, admired in Europe and in the United States, which was enveloped with the oriental exoticism and mystery. However, although its great repercussion in Catalonia, it did not succeed as sport, because of its presentation as o spectacle, apart from period gymnasiums and sporting clubs, stopped the creation of structures and groups of practice with significant …