Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London

ISBN-13: 9781032279190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Amit Singh

Opis

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.

O autorze

Amit Singh has a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. He has written on questions of race and subjectivity and is involved in public education projects such as the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project. He also runs a 26-week supplementary sociology enrichment curriculum – "Race, Class & Society" – across two sixth forms in South and East London, as well as an annual summer school.