| ID | 185329 |
| Title Proper | Fighting with race |
| Other Title Information | complex solidarities & constrained sameness |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Singh, Amit |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 29, No.3; Jun 2022: p.301-319 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2022-06 29, 3 |
| Key Words | Race ; Agency ; Habitus ; Bourdieu ; Kickboxing ; Muay Thai |