ABSTRACT

Feeling at home on the field of play offers insights into sport as a social experience between humans and the non-human world. Players, in whatever sport, but especially outdoor team sports, engage with each other and their environment. Take soccer, for instance. Beyond the mercenary dominance of FIFA and the competitive machismo of many player and fans, a universal cultural experience remains – one that is contingent on environmental circumstances. A key aspect of the game’s lingua franca is the transferable joy of outside play – something experienced across ages and genders. For those working in physical education, where dominant sports will likely remain so, the question is whether the joy of codified outdoor play can be celebrated and taught above imperatives to produce fit and competitive selves. This paper contends that it can. By reflecting on a regular after-work soccer game at an elite school in Argentina, with the aid of soccer phenomenology and nature writing on joy, it is shown that momentary experiences emerge that celebrate social connections reliant on fragile material conditions. The game, which was prima facie welcome to all, was an event in which histories of soccer were evident in players from around the world. Such histories converged on the field each week as provisional delight and sincere congeniality. Contradictions inevitably remained within this space – inclusion and exclusion, environmental spoliation and appreciation, justice and injustice – just as they do in all encounters between the human and non-human. Yet the act of playing together outside contained the promise of lives not determined by human domination of each other and, crucially, the world around them.

摘要

在运动场上有宾至如归的感觉，可以洞悉体育作为人类与非人类世界之间的一种社会体验。运动员，无论从事什么运动，尤其是户外团体运动，都需要彼此互动，并与周围环境互动。以足球为例。除了FIFA的雇佣军统治以及许多球员和球迷的竞争大男子主义之外，一种普遍的文化体验仍然存在-一种视环境而定的体验。游戏的通用语言的一个关键方面是外部游戏的可转移乐趣-跨年龄和性别的体验。对于那些从事体育运动的人来说，仍可能会保持主导性运动的问题是，是否可以在紧要关头之上庆祝和教导编纂的户外运动的乐趣，以产生健康和竞争性的自我。本文认为可以做到。通过反思阿根廷一所精英学校的定期下班后的足球比赛，借助足球现象学和自然界在欢乐上的写作，表明出现了短暂的经验，这些经验庆祝了依赖脆弱的物质条件的社会联系。表面上看，这场比赛受到所有人的欢迎，在这场比赛中，世界各地的球员都见证了足球的历史。这些历史每周都在场上汇聚在一起，带来暂时的喜悦和真诚的友善。就像在人类与非人类之间的所有遭遇中一样，在这个空间中不可避免地存在矛盾，包括包容和排斥，环境政治化和欣赏，正义与不公正。然而，在外面玩耍的行为包含了生命的希望，而这种希望不是由人类相互支配来决定的，更重要的是，