eprintid: 10164837
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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   
 
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