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Fighting Identity
- An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London
Engelsk
Bogcover for Fighting Identity af Amit Singh, 9781032279213
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
164
ISBN-13:
9781032279213
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032279214
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,5 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2024
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Fighting Identity

- An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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This book is an immersive ethnographic account of how fighters at a Polish-owned Muay Thai/kickboxing gym in East London seek to reject prior identity markers in favour of constructing one another as the same, as fighters, a category supposedly free from the negative assumptions and limitations associated with prior ascriptions such as race, class, gender and sexuality.

It explores questions of subjectivity and identity by examining how and why fighters sought to disavow identity, which involved casting aside pre-established ways of thinking, feeling and acting about constructed differences to forge deep bonds of carnal convivial friendships. Yet, this book argues that becoming a fighter is highly socially contingent and remains subject to rupture due to the durability of taken-for-granted thinking about race, gender and sexuality, which, if drawn upon, could pull people out of the category of fighter and back into longer-standing durable categories. This book deploys Butler''s theory of performativity and Bourdieu''s conceptualisation of habitus to explore the context-specific ways people transgress identity whilst remaining attentive to the constrained nature of agency.

The book is intended for undergraduate and master''s students on courses looking at race, racism, gender, social anthropology, sociology and sociology of sport.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
164
ISBN-13:
9781032279213
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032279214
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,5 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
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