eprintid: 10164838
rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2023-02-14 12:28:35
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creators_name: Singh, Amit
title: Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: Bourdieu, Habitus, Race, Racism, Ethnography, Kickboxing
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
abstract: This article deploys Bourdieu’s conceptualization of habitus to examine how fighters at a Muay Thai/Kickboxing gym in East London challenge their taken-for-granted thinking about race (their racial doxa). I argue that through training to fight, people experience “hysteresis” as they find themselves within situations where their habitus – and relatedly their doxa – no longer adequately guides them. This results in a questioning of racial doxa that previously went unquestioned, which Bourdieu refers to as ‘heterodoxy’; an alternative to doxa. This article subsequently offers empirically informed theoretical insights by establishing a relationship between habitus, race and racism. It argues that the reproduction of racist thought and action is not inevitable, as people find ways to break habitual practices in their everyday life.
date: 2022-02-28
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211072431
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1979482
doi: 10.1177/14661381211072431
lyricists_name: Singh, Amit
lyricists_id: ASINF90
actors_name: Singh, Amit
actors_id: ASINF90
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Ethnography
citation:        Singh, Amit;      (2022)    Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”.                   Ethnography        10.1177/14661381211072431 <https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211072431>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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