Movement, Meaning and Matter: Understanding Skillful Action in Sport

ABSTRACT

In this paper I explore my burgeoning interest in the work of Bruno Latour in an effort to conceptualize movement skill learning as a complex process involving multiple circulating entities. Drawing from Latour’s (2007) actor-network theory (ANT), my aim is to illustrate how an ANT take on movement skill learning could impact kinesiology as a field through the development of a more holistic approach to the learning of skilled actions that addresses how meaning, movement and matter assemble.

KEYWORDS:

• Bruno Latour
• actor-network theory
• anti-foundationalism
• movement
• learning

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [SSHRC CG 611-2019-0314 Markula]