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Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness.
- Source :
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Identities . Jun2022, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p301-319. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an East London Kickboxing/Muay Thai gym, this paper explores how fighters at Origins Combat Gym seek to reject race as a discursive category in favour of constructing each other as the same, bonded by years of intimately training alongside one another. Drawing upon Bourdieu, I conceptualise a racial habitus to argue that such processes are constrained; my field-site is not a racial utopia, even if it does allow for new possibilities. Nonetheless, my interlocutors' attempts to reject the logic of ethnic absolutism through forging complex localised solidarities offers hope in anti-immigrant times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SOLIDARITY
*KICKBOXING
*ETHNOLOGY
*UTOPIAS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1070289X
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Identities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157228049
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953785