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Fighting Identity - An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London (Hardcover)
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Fighting Identity - An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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This book is an immersive ethnographic account of how fighters at a
Polish-owned Muay Thai/kickboxing gym in East London seek to reject
prior identity markers in favour of constructing one another as the
same, as fighters, a category supposedly free from the negative
assumptions and limitations associated with prior ascriptions such
as race, class, gender and sexuality. It explores questions of
subjectivity and identity by examining how and why fighters sought
to disavow identity, which involved casting aside pre-established
ways of thinking, feeling and acting about constructed differences
to forge deep bonds of carnal convivial friendships. Yet, this book
argues that becoming a fighter is highly socially contingent and
remains subject to rupture due to the durability of
taken-for-granted thinking about race, gender and sexuality, which,
if drawn upon, could pull people out of the category of fighter and
back into longer-standing durable categories. This book deploys
Butler's theory of performativity and Bourdieu's conceptualisation
of habitus to explore the context-specific ways people transgress
identity whilst remaining attentive to the constrained nature of
agency. The book is intended for undergraduate and master's
students on courses looking at race, racism, gender, social
anthropology, sociology and sociology of sport.
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