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The Urban Geography of Boxing - Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring (Paperback)
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The Urban Geography of Boxing - Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of
twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily
labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an
instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and
interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing
insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of
the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force,
promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals,
media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes
in the sport. For some, boxing is about physical empowerment;
others are in it for the money; some deploy it for ideological
purposes; yet others use it to claim their 15-minutes of fame, and
frequently the various interests overlap. In this book, Benita
Heiskanen makes a broader connection between boxing and the spatial
organization of racialized, class-based, and gendered bodies within
particular urban geographies. Journeying actual sites where the
sport is organized, such as the barrio, boxing gym, and competition
venues, she maps the ways in which boxing insiders negotiate a
variety of conflicting agendas at local, regional, and national
scales. Beyond the United States, the worker-athletes conduct their
labor within global socioeconomic conditions, business networks,
and legal principles. Through this sporting context, Heiskanen's
discussion discloses some complex socio-historical, cultural, and
political power relations between urban margins and centers, with
ramifications far beyond boxing. This book will be of interest to
readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography,
Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American
Studies.
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