{"product_id":"9781032279190-fighting-identity","title":"Fighting Identity","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London. Through immersive ethnography, this book explores how fighters at a Muay Thai\/Kickboxing gym in East London attempt to reject pre-established identity markers such as race and gender. \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is intended for undergraduate and master's students on courses looking at race, racism, gender, social anthropology, sociology and sociology of sport. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40992754794593,"sku":"9781032279190","price":158.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_15847850_jpg.jpg?v=1705546527","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032279190-fighting-identity","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}