@article{discovery10164837, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, pages = {301--319}, publisher = {Informa UK Limited}, year = {2022}, title = {Fighting with race: complex solidarities \& constrained sameness}, journal = {Identities}, number = {3}, volume = {29}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953785}, author = {Singh, Amit}, 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.}, keywords = {Bourdieu, habitus, race, agency, kickboxing, Muay Thai} }