Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital
Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital
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巩固体育场内的关系：在英国湖区跑步的失败和生存资本的获得
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2013
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S. Nettleton
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这篇文章介绍了在英国湖区的跌落跑步人种志的发现。一个具有争议性的概念——存在主义资本——被提出来强调从跑步中获得的利润，作为一种具体化的技术，作为一种定义领域内共享激情的手段。这些收获是通过身体技术获得的，这些技术需要持续的身体努力、具体化的警惕以及对地形挑战和美学吸引人的环境的了解。存在主义资本所固有的内在乐趣被那些在这个领域的人所欣赏，这反过来意味着，这项孤独的运动产生了一种强烈的社会性，“只有跑步者才能理解”。现场分析通常侧重于斗争；这里建议，关注什么是共享的，可以让我们理解一个领域是如何获得身份的。因此，存在主义资本的概念强调了这个领域，它以挑战传统领域分析模式固有的工具主义的方式充满激情地定义了这个领域。
This article presents findings from an ethnography of fell running in the English Lake District. A provocative concept – existential capital – is proposed to underscore the profits acquired from fell running as an embodied technique, and as a means of defining the shared passions within the field. These gains are acquired through corporeal techniques that require sustained physical effort, embodied vigilance, and knowledge of an environment that is topographically challenging and aesthetically arresting. The visceral pleasures intrinsic to existential capital are appreciated by those within the field and this, in turn, means that this solitary sport gives rise to an intense sociality that ‘only a runner can understand’. Field analysis conventionally focuses on struggles; it is suggested here that a focus on what is shared allows us to understand how a field gains an identity. Thus the notion of existential capital highlights the field as passionately defined in ways that challenge the instrumentalism inherent to conventional modes of field analysis.