Engaging the Field through Retrospetive Methods: A Cambodian Story
Engaging the Field through Retrospetive Methods: A Cambodian Story
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通过回顾性方法参与该领域：柬埔寨的故事
DOI：
10.1080/2159676x.2016.1206611
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2016
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通讯作者：
Chiaki Okada
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作者：
Kevin Young;Chiaki Okada
这篇论文说明了体育是如何与社区发展和和平建设联系在一起的，当有承诺和有影响力的当地个人的组织。然而，为了与本期特刊的主题保持一致，本文的主旨既是方法论的，也是实质性的。我们的出发点是，尽管在许多方面具有创新性，但从方法论上讲，“体育、社会发展与和平”（SDP）文献相当有限。矛盾的是，对于一个明显依赖于关键人物的长期管理的社会舞台，生活史或“故事”方法很少被采用。在本文中，我们试图纠正这种方法上的不平衡，通过对这种“回忆方法”的潜在有用性进行论证，特别是通过“按时间顺序”和“叙述”一个人的生活，这个人在促进体育作为社区发展的工具方面发挥了核心作用，柬埔寨是所有东南亚国家中经济和政治上最具挑战性的国家之一。因此，通过论证生活史方法有可能对知识和理解做出有意义的贡献，本文参与并希望推进SDP文献中的方法论辩论。
This paper illustrates how sport may be associated with community development and peace building when marshalled by committed and influential local individuals. However, in keeping with the main theme of this special issue, the thrust of the paper is as methodological as it is substantive. Our beginning point is the argument that while innovative in many respects, the ‘sport, social development and peace’ (SDP) literature has been rather limited methodologically speaking. Paradoxically for a social arena that so obviously depends on the prolonged stewardship of key individuals, a life history or ‘storied’ approach has rarely been undertaken. In this paper, we attempt to redress this methodological imbalance by making a case for the potential usefulness of such ‘recall methods’ and, specifically, by both ‘chronologizing’ and ‘narrativizing’ the life of a man who has been central in promoting sport as a vehicle for community development in one of the most economically and politically challenged of all Southeast Asian countries – Cambodia. Thus, by arguing that life history approaches have the potential to make a meaningful contribution to knowledge and understanding, this paper engages and hopefully advances the methodological debate in the SDP literature.