eprintid: 10164837 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/16/48/37 datestamp: 2023-02-14 12:35:37 lastmod: 2023-02-14 12:35:37 status_changed: 2023-02-14 12:35:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Singh, Amit title: Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F26 keywords: Bourdieu, habitus, race, agency, kickboxing, Muay Thai note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. 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. date: 2022 date_type: published publisher: Informa UK Limited official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953785 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1979483 doi: 10.1080/1070289x.2021.1953785 lyricists_name: Singh, Amit lyricists_id: ASINF90 actors_name: Singh, Amit actors_id: ASINF90 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Identities volume: 29 number: 3 pagerange: 301-319 citation: Singh, Amit; (2022) Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness. Identities , 29 (3) pp. 301-319. 10.1080/1070289x.2021.1953785 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2021.1953785>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164837/2/Singh_Fighting%20with%20race_AAM.pdf