Singh, Amit;
(2022)
Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness.
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pp. 301-319.
10.1080/1070289x.2021.1953785.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Fighting with race: complex solidarities & constrained sameness |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1070289x.2021.1953785 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953785 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Bourdieu, habitus, race, agency, kickboxing, Muay Thai |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164837 |
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