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On the ground and off
In the United States, prizefighting carries deep-seated meanings as an ethnically and racially delineated, class-based and gendered practice. At present, the sport is characterized by its ongoing ‘latinization’ corresponding to Latinos’ integration endeavors in urban USA. This article examines boxing as a locus for identity formations. Based on four years of ethnographic fieldwork with a community of Latino prizefighters in Austin, TX between 2000 and 2004, the research draws on life-story interviews conducted with the boxers, while their experiences are situated within a theoretical framework of the body in space and place. The fieldwork brings the research ‘onto the ground’ to the actual sites-such as the boxing gym, the weigh-in and the competition venue-where the athletes conduct their occupation on a daily basis. As professional boxing determines these worker-athletes’ physical prowess, it also shapes their identities, day-to-day survival and their very mode of being in the world.
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 481-496
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(4)
- Thema
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identity formations; place; professional boxing; space; the body; US Latinos;
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Heiskanen, Benita
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wann)
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2006
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227001
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Heiskanen, Benita
Entstanden
- 2006
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