Consent to Violence and The Violence of Consent: Martial Arts Training Amongst the Tokyo Police
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Tapsfield, Amy. 2024. Consent to Violence and The Violence of Consent: Martial Arts Training Amongst the Tokyo Police. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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Martial arts are an integral part of police training in modern Tokyo, a city which enjoys unusually low rates of violent crime considering its size, population density, and economic standing. Having spent 11 months training in Yoshinkan Aikidō together with ten police officers, and then a further 7 months as an instructor, my research focusses on the embodied practices and ritualistic habitus of the specialised training that takes place within the dōjō. From this context I identify key social behaviours of how hierarchy is performed and experienced, and the ways in which care and consent are expressed and demonstrated in various different social situations. Using the dōjō as an example, I then apply these behavioural norms to the wider context of community policing in Tokyo in order to demonstrate how the city is created as a safe space for those who inhabit it. Focusing on embodied forms of communication within strict hierarchies and ritualistic constructions of space, my project looks at how actions of controlled violence are performed, consented to, and balanced with a situation of care in the aikidō dōjō, and what this demonstrates about community policing in Japanese society.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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Policing, Martial Arts, Japan, Consent, Hierarchy, Pain, Care, Safe Space |
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31 May 2024 |
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37213 |
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04 Jul 2024 15:04 |
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04 Jul 2024 15:10 |
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