Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-167
Keyword(s):  
Black Belt ◽  
Black Geographies

North Korea’s emerging martial arts tourism: a Taekwon-Do case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Jan Cynarski ◽  
John Arthur Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Black Belt ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Standard Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Martial Art ◽  
The Subject

Purpose This descriptive, non-experiment case study addresses the little-studied topic of martial arts tourism within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; i.e., North Korea) to determine if it is a form of non-entertainment tourism. Design/methodology/approach The current research focusses on a single subject (Singaporean female; 36 years of age (at time of interview); Taekwon-Do 4th degree black belt) who travelled to the DPRK three times to practice the Korean martial art Taekwon-Do. After the initial contact, a questionnaire was used and direct interviews via Skype and Facebook were performed. A broad thematic discourse, as well as analysis of the subject’s travel and practice notes and photographs from her stay in the DPRK, were also incorporated into the findings. Findings The subject developed new Taekwon-Do skills, which permitted her to obtain higher Taekwon-Do ranks as well as enriched her personality and changed certain conceptions. Self-realization and self-improvement through martial arts are the dominant motives of martial arts tourism. Therefore, the subject’s motivation confirms martial arts tourism can be a variation of non-entertainment tourism. Research limitations/implications This research is hindered by the standard case study limitations: it is difficult to generalize this study’s results to the wider DPRK population, the interviewee’s and researchers’ subjective feelings may have influenced the findings, and selection bias is definitely a factor because of the study’s population being a single female of non-DPRK origin. Originality/value As one of the first studies on DPRK martial arts tourism and practice, this research examines where research on the DPRK and martial arts tourism intersect. It is thusly unique in providing new insights into the DPRK’s intention for its tourism industry, as well as Taekwon-Do, arguably its most marketable cultural asset.

scholarly journals Karate: Emotions and Movement Anticipation

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Contiero ◽  
Jerzy Kosiewicz ◽  
Julien S. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Black Belt ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Karate Athletes

AbstractIntroduction The following paper is a case study developed to investigate the possible relationship between mirror neurons and karate. In karate, athletes are often trained to anticipate the opponent’s movement and to consider their emotions (Dosil 2006). This kind of training and skill may be linked to the concept related to mirror neurons, which are connected to the identification of the intention behind an action and are involved in a sort of automatic empathy of “really feeling what another person is feeling or going to do” (Carey 2006). Methods The research is an introductive literary review about martial arts and the theory of mirror neurons and provides a case study based on interviews. Participants have been asked to answer five questions related to the topic. All of them are expert athletes at the black belt level or with at least 10 years of training experience.

A “Six Sigma”©Black Belt Case Study: G.E.P. Box's Paper Helicopter Experiment Part A

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Adam Johnson ◽  
Scott Widener ◽  
Howard Gitlow ◽  
Edward Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Black Belt

Replication of a Six Sigma black belt case study: GEP box's paper helicopter experiment in a drone logistics scenario

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Sean P. Goffnett ◽  
Andrew N. Paquet ◽  
Oliver M. Strong ◽  
Kevin P. McCarron
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Black Belt

Replication of a Six Sigma black belt case study: GEP box's paper helicopter experiment in a drone logistics scenario

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Kevin P. McCarron ◽  
Oliver M. Strong ◽  
Sean P. Goffnett ◽  
Andrew N. Paquet
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Black Belt

scholarly journals Karate-Talk in a Canadian Dojo

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Michaela Peters
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Black Belt ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World

Karate-do is one of many budo, or martial ways, that originated during the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan. The original dojos (training halls), used the Japanese language to indoctrinate karate students into the moral code of the dojo community. Over the last century karate has spread across the world, and other languages have been combined with Japanese to teach the art and sport. In this article, the discursive practice of combining English and Japanese in Canadian dojos is called Karate-Talk. Using identity frameworks from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, I illustrate and interpret how Karate-Talk teaches students the moral and ethical codes that are embedded in karate training, and in doing so helps students develop their black belt identity. Dojos want their students to develop black belt identities because it helps to pass on the traditions of karate-do and contributes to the preservation and continuation of the art form. This article describes Karate-Talk in a socio-historic context, and establishes the ways it is used to create black belt identities in karate students through the use of a case study. 

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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