{"product_id":"fighting-identity-2","title":"Fighting Identity","description":"\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\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\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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244276928856,"sku":"9781032279213","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032279213.jpg?v=1769046323","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fighting-identity-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}