Raúl Sánchez García
Biographic Data
| ID | 338466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl Sánchez García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl Sánchez |
| FAMILY NAME | García |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1230-0951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Percepción De Ajedrecistas Expertos Sobre Las Trampas en Ajedrez Online
Las trampas en ajedrez se han convertido en una preocupación importante con la llegada de tecnologías avanzadas, en particular la inteligencia artificial. Este artículo presenta los hallazgos parciales de un proyecto más amplio que investiga las complejidades de las trampas en el ajedrez sobre el tablero y en línea (online). Por tanto, sólo analiza los resultados de un experimento de ajedrez online con 24 jugadores expertos. Los hallazgos explora…
Producción, circulación y traducción transnacional de ideas y expertos en la Cultura Física y la Educación Física: Los casos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay (1930-1980). IdIHCS. Colección de Est…
Recensión de la obra colectiva coordinada por Alejo Levoratti y Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky
La iniciación a los deportes de combate desde las dinámicas ecológicas: El Modelo de Enseñanza Basado en Constreñimientos
This pre-eminently theoretical article aims to lay the foundations for an introduction to combat sports based on a motor learning model known as ecological dynamics, which tries to articulate the theories of James Gibson and Nikolai Bernstein with dynamical systems. More specifically, the article criticizes the cognitivism implicit in the notion of “knowing how to fight” (developed from comprehensive approaches) and proposes instead the concepts …
Physical activity, sports participation, and sustainable development in the Ibero-American region: A pilot implementation of indicators in Chile, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
Background In recognition of the potential contributions of sports and physical activity to national development and responding to international calls from organizations like UNESCO and the World Health Organization, a coalition of agencies and Ibero-American sports ministers endorsed the creation of an indicator set to assess the impact of sports participation and physical activity on sustainable development. Methods The Ibero-American Sports Co…
La mirada masculina y la proyección de la feminidad corporal normativa en la publicidad
Este artículo presenta un breve análisis sobre la proyección de una feminidad corporal normativa vinculada a actividad física en el caso concreto de un anuncio que aparece en una revista deportiva. El anuncio es de la marca Fjäll Räven y aparece dentro de uno de los números de la revista es Desnivel, especializada en montañismo y escalada. A pesar de lo sutil de la presentación, tanto de las imágenes como del texto vinculado al anuncio, se deja e…
Revisión de A causa de la lucha celebrada en San Bartolomé de Geneto (1834), por Víctor Lorenzo Alonso Delgado
Este libro contiene la transcripción original de un texto de 1834 sobre la memoria del proceso judicial desarrollado a partir de los incidentes ocurridos durante la celebración de un evento de lucha en Tenerife. El contenido de la memoria da información sobre las formas de organización del evento, el nivel y modo de estandarización de la lucha, la terminología utilizada o la indumentaria utilizada. El texto viene precedido por una introducción so…
Football and Fascism: The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal
Rahul Kumar has authored an excellent piece of historical research. Adopting Bourdieu's field theory, the book analyzes the development of Portuguese football within the dynamic power relations between a semiautonomous sports field and the political influence of the fascist New State under Salazar. Rather than embracing a conventional top-down hypothesis wherein a totalitarian state completely manipulates sports for its own agenda and propaganda,…
Análisis etnometodológico sobre el dinamismo del "habitus" en Bourdieu y Elias dentro del desarrollo de actividades corporales
El artículo introduce una lectura etnometodológica del concepto de habitus en Bourdieu y Elias. Pretende mostrar la relación existente entre la generación de procesos de adquisición práctica (etnométodos) de ciertas actividades corporales y el desarrollo de cierto sentido práctico (al que hace referencia el habitus bourdieuano) y cierta economía afectiva (a la que hace referencia el habitus eliasiano) a lo largo de la inmersión continuada en tale…
Dal Lago, Alessandro (2022). Sangue nell’ottagono. Antropologia delle arti marziali miste. Bolonia: Il Mulino, 2022, 190 pág
Sociología del Deporte surge en 2020 en el seno de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla con el propósito de crear un espacio de reflexión y debate en torno al fenómeno deportivo desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales. Pretende conectar desde el rigor científico las principales teorías y corrientes de la sociología con el debate intelectual de nuestro tiempo en torno al fenómeno deportivo. Parte de la idea central de que el deporte es…
A process-sociology analysis of religious practices and Japanese martial arts
This paper uses primary and secondary sources to provide a process-sociological analysis of the relationship between religious practices and Japanese martial arts. It problematises the taken for granted role of Zen Buddhism as the sole influence on the development of Japanese martial arts. Such essential connection is inaccurate and anachronistic. Religious and martial practices developed as part of processes of sociogenesis (state formation) and…
Fútbol, género, inclusión social y deporte en Andalucía
Editorial del Volumen 3, Número 2, de Sociología del Deporte (SD)
The testosterone barrier in sport
World Athletics (formerly known as IAAF) has recently published the eligibility regulations for female classification that apply to running events from 400 meters up to the mile. The regulations have prevented some elite women athletes with DSD (Difference of Sexual Development) to compete or have made some of them to change their preferred running event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. According to World Athletics, female hyperandrogenism (a biologic…
Etnografía sensorial sobre la movilidad en la ciudad de Madrid vivida desde un minicruiser
Este artículo propone una etnografía sensorial crítica sobre la experiencia vivida al ir subido a un minicruiser (pequeña tabla de skate para pasear) por las calles de Madrid. De modo más específico, la etnografía ha tratado de registrar a partir de las propias sensaciones corporales los distintos ritmos y las atmósferas afectivas que se van experimentando al ir avanzando por la ciudad en el minicruiser. Se realizaron cuatro grabaciones mediante …
Dangerous Fun. The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers
Sociología del Deporte surge en 2020 en el seno de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla con el propósito de crear un espacio de reflexión y debate en torno al fenómeno deportivo desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales. Pretende conectar desde el rigor científico las principales teorías y corrientes de la sociología con el debate intelectual de nuestro tiempo en torno al fenómeno deportivo. Parte de la idea central de que el deporte es…
Etnografías del deporte y actividades físicas
En este monográfico encontramos distintos estudios que aplican el método etnográfico a investigaciones que tienen que ver con la actividad física y deportiva. El número está compuesto por dos artículos de la sección especial, seis artículos de investigación y una reseña de libro sobre etnografía deportiva. Cabe destacar que los artículos de investigación producen un diálogo de fondo entre estudios realizados a ambos lados del Atlántico: ciudades …
Turn-Taking in the Surfing Lineup
This article addresses the specific issue of rules and turn-taking in surfing from an ethnomethodological approach. The naturally occurring coordination of turn-taking of surfers riding ocean waves permits us to examine the nature of organizing local orderlinesses. Operating without officials or external supervision, surfers find ways to enhance safety and keep conflict to a minimum, while avoiding a burdensome structure of rule governance. The m…
La percepción materna/paterna del juego de niños y niñas de 5-6 años en parques infantiles. Un estudio cualitativo
La cuestión del juego arriesgado en niños y niñas está tomando gran importancia tanto en el ámbito académico como en el de las políticas públicas dentro del entorno europeo. Debido a que gran parte de la actividad física que realizan los pequeños/as se desarrollan en áreas de juego tales como los parques infantiles, es necesaria una investigación sobre el juego arriesgado que acontece en tales espacios. El presente artículo propone una investigac…
La reutilización lúdica del espacio urbano en tiempos de la Covid-19
El presente artículo forma parte de la sección de debate "Deporte y COVID-19" del Volumen 1, Número 1, de Sociología del Deporte (SD)
The sociology of sport in Spain: Development, current situation, and future challenges
This article presents the development and current situation of the sociology of sport in Spain. It begins with a brief description of its origins and development as an academic field, which can be divided into three stages: birth, growth, and consolidation and internationalization. It then describes the theoretical and methodological traditions as well as the predominant topics (including the most representative research) in the social scientific…
Fighting as real as it gets. A Micro-Sociological Encounter
A Latin Can Be Worth Just as Much or More than a Saxon’: Boxing, Gender, and Transnational Latinity in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Spain
This article examines Spanish press coverage of boxing upon its entry into Spain’s ‘media space’ during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Our analysis highlights how the mix of fascination, repugnance, and admiration displayed toward the sport were shaped by the broader context of imperial rivalry and anxieties about the purported decline of Spain and other Latin nations vis-à-vis the ascendant Anglo-Saxon nations. Criticizing bo…
The spectacularization of violence in contemporary US bare-knuckle fighting
This paper presents an application and a further development of Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning's (2008 Elias, Norbert , and Eric Dunning . 2008. Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process . Dublin: University College Dublin Press. [Google Scholar]) Quest for Excitement thesis through the analysis of the recent phenomenon of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) in USA. The research method is based on qualitative dat…
When the Elites Began Going to the Gym: The Professional and Social Spaces of the First Hygienic Gymnasiums in Madrid, 1860–69
In order to analyse the origins of modern gyms in Spain, it is crucial to look to the mid-nineteenth century, focusing particularly on those cities that experienced the greatest urban and economic growth. These cities witnessed the creation of new spaces related to the different gymnastic disciplines (artistic, medical, orthopaedic, recreational, hygienic, and pedagogical). A few primitive gymnasiums governed by empiricist experts in gymnastics (…
Instrucciones y acciones instruidas
Se realiza la traducción del Capítulo Seis de El Programa de la Etbometodología por Harold Garfinkel
Revisiting Duelling and Fencing in the Sociology of Norbert Elias
Decivilizing, civilizing or informalizing? The international development of Mixed Martial Arts
This article contributes to ongoing debates about trends in violence in sport through an examination of the emergence of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). The article counters suggestions that the rise of MMA is indicative of a decivilizing and/or de-sportizing process, arguing instead that the development of MMA can best be explained with reference to the concepts of informalization and the 'quest for excitement'. More particularly, the article argues t…
The British Influence in the Birth of Spanish Sport
Sports started to gain relevance in Spain around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century as a leisure and health option of the upper classes imported from Britain. Its early development was intertwined with the spread of other kinds of physical activities with much more tradition on the continent: gymnastics and physical education. First played by the ruling classes aristocracy and high bourgeoisie - sports pe…
Governmentality’ in the origins of European female PE and sport: The Spanish case study (1883–1936)
The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and sports from a power perspective, inspired by Foucault's work; and (2) to present a detailed analysis of female PE and sport in Spain (1883–1936) as a specific European case study. It is argued that these physical activities could be conceived in the Spanish case as part of a specific kind of ‘governmentality’ with a dual nature. …
The spectacularization of violence in contemporary US bare-knuckle fighting
This paper presents an application and a further development of Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning's (2008 Elias, Norbert , and Eric Dunning . 2008. Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process . Dublin: University College Dublin Press. [Google Scholar]) Quest for Excitement thesis through the analysis of the recent phenomenon of the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) in USA. The research method is based on qualitative dat…
When the Elites Began Going to the Gym: The Professional and Social Spaces of the First Hygienic Gymnasiums in Madrid, 1860–69
In order to analyse the origins of modern gyms in Spain, it is crucial to look to the mid-nineteenth century, focusing particularly on those cities that experienced the greatest urban and economic growth. These cities witnessed the creation of new spaces related to the different gymnastic disciplines (artistic, medical, orthopaedic, recreational, hygienic, and pedagogical). A few primitive gymnasiums governed by empiricist experts in gymnastics (…
Distributed Attention: A Cognitive Ethnography of Instruction in Sport Settings
How do expert trainers and athletes instruct and attend to new moves? The objective of this paper is to analize communication patterns in sports settings. We propose a pragmatic view on cognition through an integrated theoretical model. We claim that communication modalities cannot be reduced to individual minds but must be understood as distributed cognitive mechanisms among different individuals and resources. We compare two case studies, an ai…
Sport Versus Bullfighting: The New Civilizing Sensitivity of Regenerationism and its Effect on the Leisure Pursuits of the Spanish at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
This article analyzes the influence of the new civilizing sensitivity of the Spanish regenerationists in the introduction of sport, in place of bullfighting, during the first third of the twentieth century. Following the colonial collapse of the late nineteenth century and the subsequent demoralization of the country, the regenerationists saw in physical education and sport a way to reform the broken Spanish population. Sport had arrived in Spain…
Habitus y clase social en Bourdieu: Una Aplicación Empírica en El Campo De Los Deportes De Combate
En aquest article, duem a terme una aplicació empírica d’alguns elements del concepte d’habitus en Bourdieu. En concret, es tracta la relació amb el que és corporal en la realització d’unes pràctiques esportives, relació que es troba inscrita en l’habitus. Per fer-ho, utilitzarem l’anàlisi de la trajectòria de les posicions i dels habitus d’uns participants —associats a unes classes socials concretes— dins del camp dels esports de combat al nostr…
Habitus y clase social en Bourdieu: Una Aplicación Empírica en El Campo De Los Deportes De Combate
En aquest article, duem a terme una aplicació empírica d’alguns elements del concepte d’habitus en Bourdieu. En concret, es tracta la relació amb el que és corporal en la realització d’unes pràctiques esportives, relació que es troba inscrita en l’habitus. Per fer-ho, utilitzarem l’anàlisi de la trajectòria de les posicions i dels habitus d’uns participants —associats a unes classes socials concretes— dins del camp dels esports de combat al nostr…
Análisis etnometodológico sobre el dinamismo del habitus en Bourdieu y Elias dentro del desarrollo de actividades corporales (Ethnomethodological Analysis on Habitus' Dynamism in Bourdieu and Elias wi…
El articulo introduce una lectura etnometodologica del concepto de habitus en Bourdieu y Elias. Pretende mostrar la relacion existente entre la generacion de procesos de adquisicion practica (etnometodos) de ciertas actividades corporales y el desarrollo de cierto sentido practico (al que hace referencia el habitus bourdieuano) y cierta economia afectiva (a la que hace referencia el habitus eliasiano) a lo largo de la inmersion continuada en tale…
Post-humanism in the Olympic track: Pistorius/Semenya case studies and the re-definition of Sport
Two recent polemic cases in the world of athletics (Pistorius and Semenya) will help us to show how post-humanism can be applied to sports in a fruitful way. The sport subjectivity of Semenya and Pistorius, far from being a given essence, is going to be built through the re-assembling of human and non human actors (Latour, 2005); the notion of tecno-biopower is going to have a special relevance during this process (Haraway, 1997). Such dynamic co…
Post-humanismo en la pista olímpica: Casos Pistorius/Semenya y la re-definición del deporte
La presentación de dos recientes y polémicos casos en el mundo del atletismo (Pistorius y Semenya) va a permitirnos mostrar de forma específica el modo en que los enfoques post-humanistas pueden ser aplicados de modo fructífero al análisis de lo deportivo. Veremos como la subjetividad deportiva de Semenya y Pistorius, lejos de ser una esencia dada, va a ir produciéndose mediante un reensamblaje de actores humano y no humanos (Latour, 2005), proce…
Decivilizing, civilizing or informalizing? The international development of Mixed Martial Arts
This article contributes to ongoing debates about trends in violence in sport through an examination of the emergence of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). The article counters suggestions that the rise of MMA is indicative of a decivilizing and/or de-sportizing process, arguing instead that the development of MMA can best be explained with reference to the concepts of informalization and the 'quest for excitement'. More particularly, the article argues t…
Governmentality’ in the origins of European female PE and sport: The Spanish case study (1883–1936)
The purpose of the paper is twofold: (1) to contribute to the analysis of the origins of modern European female PE and sports from a power perspective, inspired by Foucault's work; and (2) to present a detailed analysis of female PE and sport in Spain (1883–1936) as a specific European case study. It is argued that these physical activities could be conceived in the Spanish case as part of a specific kind of ‘governmentality’ with a dual nature. …
The British Influence in the Birth of Spanish Sport
Sports started to gain relevance in Spain around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century as a leisure and health option of the upper classes imported from Britain. Its early development was intertwined with the spread of other kinds of physical activities with much more tradition on the continent: gymnastics and physical education. First played by the ruling classes aristocracy and high bourgeoisie - sports pe…
Deporte, salud y calidad de vida
Index de les obres ressenyades: David MOSCOSO SÁNCHEZ y Eduardo MOYANO ESTRADA, Deporte, salud y calidad de vida.
Los mitos esenciales del deporte español
Fighting Scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Sesión de 'life management': Apuntes etnometodológicos sobre una audiencia cautiva(da)
This paper presents a detailed ethnomethodological description of a Life Management Master Class as an example of a profession related to captivated audiences. Firstly, the ordered succession of events (jokes, dramatizations, videos etc.) through the ethnomethodological alternates of the session is expounded. Then, an analitycal classification of strategies applied by the speaker to connect with the public is proposed. The last section deals with…
Fighting scholars: Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Fighting Scholars presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the volume is aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquants Body and Soul: the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body
Qué significa ser activo en una sociedad sedentaria? Paradojas de los estilos de vida y el ocio en la juventud española
Sedentarism has become one of the major concerns of our times. Most people spend a large part of their daytime sitting down, most movement taking place by mechanical means, rather than by walking. Younger generations do little more sport today than their counterparts did a decade ago. In other words, sedentary habits have become common in our society, especially among the young. To understand this phenomenon we should ask what is sedentarism for …
"How can one be a sports fan?" La contribución de Pierre Bourdieu al estudio social del deporte
Sin haber sido reconocido públicamente en su biografía por su contribución al estudio social del deporte, Pierre Bourdieu es uno de los padres teóricos de la disciplina sociológica que se ocupa de este fenómeno. Como cuerpo disciplinar institucionalizado, no cabe duda que la corriente británica liderada por Elias ha sido la más relevante. Pero ignorar la contribución de Bourdieu a la construcción del cuerpo académico de la sociología del deporte …
Normatividad en deporte: Una reespecificación etnometodológica
This paper presents an ethnoethodological reespecification on the analysis of the different kinds of normativity in sport. In sports competition two kinds of rules are normally differentiated: rules of the game and ethical rules or fairplay. The ethnomethodological analysis affords us to distinguish a third kind of normativity, referred to what can be called praxical rules. The interest of the ethnomethodological proposal is not in the formal ana…
The development of Kano’s judo within Japanese civilizing/decivilizing processes
This paper analyses the complex development of judo from the figurational approach of Norbert Elias. Judo was not the creation of a sole genius, Jigoro Kano, but was progressively developed within a social blind process of whole figurations affected by specific balances between civilizing/decivilizing trends. Jigoro Kano systematized judo in order to offer a modern, formal educational tool for character-building of the youth. Nonetheless, it is a…
Sport Versus Bullfighting: The New Civilizing Sensitivity of Regenerationism and its Effect on the Leisure Pursuits of the Spanish at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
This article analyzes the influence of the new civilizing sensitivity of the Spanish regenerationists in the introduction of sport, in place of bullfighting, during the first third of the twentieth century. Following the colonial collapse of the late nineteenth century and the subsequent demoralization of the country, the regenerationists saw in physical education and sport a way to reform the broken Spanish population. Sport had arrived in Spain…
Excitement Processes: Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture
Excitement Processes
Revisiting Duelling and Fencing in the Sociology of Norbert Elias
An Introduction to The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts
This article is an extract from the forthcoming book, The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts, by Raúl Sánchez García (forthcoming in 2018 from Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-138-57169-3). It presents Japanese martial arts from a historical-sociology approach. After a brief discussion on the relationship between terminology and social processes, the chapter introduces the main tenets from Norbert Elias’s process sociology and introduces the res…
Distributed Attention: A Cognitive Ethnography of Instruction in Sport Settings
How do expert trainers and athletes instruct and attend to new moves? The objective of this paper is to analize communication patterns in sports settings. We propose a pragmatic view on cognition through an integrated theoretical model. We claim that communication modalities cannot be reduced to individual minds but must be understood as distributed cognitive mechanisms among different individuals and resources. We compare two case studies, an ai…
When the Elites Began Going to the Gym: The Professional and Social Spaces of the First Hygienic Gymnasiums in Madrid, 1860–69
In order to analyse the origins of modern gyms in Spain, it is crucial to look to the mid-nineteenth century, focusing particularly on those cities that experienced the greatest urban and economic growth. These cities witnessed the creation of new spaces related to the different gymnastic disciplines (artistic, medical, orthopaedic, recreational, hygienic, and pedagogical). A few primitive gymnasiums governed by empiricist experts in gymnastics (…
Instrucciones y acciones instruidas
Se realiza la traducción del Capítulo Seis de El Programa de la Etbometodología por Harold Garfinkel
La reutilización lúdica del espacio urbano en tiempos de la Covid-19
El presente artículo forma parte de la sección de debate "Deporte y COVID-19" del Volumen 1, Número 1, de Sociología del Deporte (SD)
Sociology (27 works) · Humanities (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Art (19 works) · Sports and Physical Education Studies (19 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works)