Event overview
Talk by Amit Singh on his new book 'Fighting Ethnography: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London'
This seminar will explore how fighters at Origins Combat Gym, a Polish-owned Muay Thai/Kickboxing gym in East London, sought to vacate identity, by constructing one another as the same, as fighters. It examines the rich friendships that developed out of these attempts to vacate identity, as people stepped across racial and gendered lines to bleed together on the gym floor. Yet, it examines how this production of sameness, and the related project of equality fighters seek to create, is subject to rupture through the often-unconscious re-invocation of prior ways of thinking and feeling about the other. Regardless of this fragility, the seminar argues that such attempts to vacate identity and construct a project of equality, offers hope against the backdrop of the harsh realities of social life.
Amit Singh is the author of Fighting Identity (Routledge 2022). He is an Associate Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UCL and is the Project Manager of the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project. Since 2017 he has delivered a 26-week sociology enrichment curriculum, "Race, Class & Society," for sixth form students in South London.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Jan 2023 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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