TY - JOUR Y1 - 2022/// N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. IS - 3 TI - Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness EP - 319 N2 - 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. VL - 29 JF - Identities PB - Informa UK Limited SP - 301 ID - discovery10164837 AV - public UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953785 A1 - Singh, Amit KW - Bourdieu KW - habitus KW - race KW - agency KW - kickboxing KW - Muay Thai ER -