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Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby

Download or Read eBook Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby PDF written by Dawn Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781000063400
ISBN-13 : 1000063402
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Book Synopsis Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby by : Dawn Fletcher

Book excerpt: Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport. No longer a women-only sport, roller derby is now played by all genders and has been heralded as a model of inclusivity within sport. Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby offers an insight into how men’s roller derby culture is created and maintained, how members forge an identity for themselves and their team, and how they create feelings of belonging and inclusivity. Through in-depth ethnographic study of a specific, localised roller derby community, this book examines how practices of skills capital intersect with different configurations of masculinity in a continual struggle between traditional and inclusive models of sport. An interrogation of the ways a DIY sport can be seen to be achieved, experienced, and understood in everyday practice, this book will appeal to scholars of men, masculinities, and sport. Additionally, the methodological discussions will be of value to ethnographers and researchers who have had to deal with a disruptive presence.


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