dc.contributor.author | Heiskanen, Benita | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-01T05:30:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-30T04:47:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-30T04:47:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22700 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.other | identity formations; place; professional boxing; space; the body; US Latinos; | |
dc.title | On the ground and off | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | European Journal of Cultural Studies | de |
dc.source.volume | 9 | de |
dc.source.issue | 4 | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227001 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2011-03-01T05:30:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | -1 | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 481-496 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 114 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549406069069 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |