Sociology of "HASHIRIYA" : A Study on the "Grassroots" of Motorsports

ハシリヤ ノ シャカイガク モータースポーツ ニオケル クサノネ ノ コウサツ

エンドウ, タツマ

Endo, Tatsuma

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

暴走

排除された第三項

カテゴリーの政治学

走り屋

bottom class/grassroots motorsports

speeding

the eliminated third

politics of category

hashiriya

This paper pay attention to a youth subculture group so to speak "street", whose members commit reckless quasi-racing speeding on the public roads. We regard them as the "grassroots" of motorsports. This assumption is indeed problematic because their activities are obviously illegal , but being informed about their realities and social setting surrounding motorsports as whole, we understand that their emergence is inevitable to a certain extent. As a result from rigorous legal restriction about modification ("tuning") of automobiles and the policy of the supervising federation of motorsports that reflects these laws, they are forced into the dangerous games on the public roads. In broader perspective, we can further point out a problem of semantic dimension that underlies above condition. Motorsports is nothing but the "eliminated third" of the binary-structurized (into speed / safety) universe of discourse that is essencial to our motorized society. Contrasting this fact, we find a "politics of category" within the self-styled name of street subculture, hashriya. This vocabulary seems to aim to establish a self-subsistent / autonomous category of motorsports. It is, according to H. Sacks, a "revolutionary category".

英語