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  -