“Yeah, and What’s the Problem?” Embodiment, Cultural Practices and Working out in a Dutch Gym

Rojas, Alexis Sossa

doi:10.3390/socsci6020044

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“…Race is also heavily influenced by how the body exists in physical space and the feelings that emerge from that lived experience (Sossa & Bull, 2017). Feelings such as alienation from the racial and cultural landscape or the joy of connection with others in a new setting based on cultural or behavioral similarities are part of a conceptual framework that affects how individuals navigate the world.…”

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Racial Unspeakability

Hernandez¹

2021

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Increasing diversity in international student mobility/migration has gained attention in recent years (Bilecen & Van Mol, 2017). Diversity in international higher education institutions has primarily been understood in terms of diversity of national origin, meaning the dynamics of racial and ethnic differences are not adequately addressed in the literature (Estera & Shahjahan, 2018). This study uses data collected during semi-structured interviews with international and domestic students, as well as administrators, to identify narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality that delimit a modern/colonial global imaginary (Stein & Andreotti, 2017). It further demonstrates that internal heterogeneity of both sending and receiving countries leads to varied meaning-making schemes for engaging with embodied racial differences and their attendant affective relations (Ahmed, 2013; Wetherell, 2012). The project suggests the term racial unspeakability as a culturally contingent, affective force that governs narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

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Racial Unspeakability

Hernandez¹

2021

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Leading the left: sociability and the micropolitics of cultural reproduction in grassrootsboxe popolarecoaching

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Aimini

2019

Sport, Education and Society

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This article explores coaching in boxe popolare (people's boxing) ─ a style of boxing codified by leftist grassroots groups in contemporary Italy. The paper presents a micro-sociological analysis of data collected during a three-year multi-sited participant observation focusing on Patrick (pseudonym), who is the leading coach of a boxe popolare team. It examines the micropolitics of reproduction via the under-researched notion of 'sociability'. To contextualise this, a Bourdieusian framework, drawing on the concepts of 'field', 'capital', 'habitus', 'doxa' and 'symbolic violence', is employed. Findings highlight how boxe popolare is infused with far-left militant culture. Patrick uses sociability strategically, a) to reproduce an embodied ethics of this specific boxing style; b) to strengthen the collective values inherent within boxe popolare political milieu; c) to perform the boxe popolare network; and finally, d) to legitimise his own authority in the coaching structure. In conclusion, we highlight the importance of sociability for understanding micropolitical influence in coaching practice and consider the emergent idea of hybrid field as a way to better explore the interplay between coaching pedagogy, the political field and beyond.

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Physical Exercise and Older People: Always a Happy Relationship? Four Qualitative Reflections to Deepen Understanding

Sossa Rojas

2024

Social Sciences

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In this paper, I recall reflections from and discussions with both older people who exercise actively and with personal trainers who specialise in working with older people to address two essential elements that should be clarified: First, what are we talking about when we discuss sport, physical exercise and physical activity, especially when we relate them to older people? Second, the benefits of exercise are known, but what are the margins and precautions that this group of people should consider, and even the damage that physical exercise can cause to them? Based on qualitative data that are taken from different ethnographic works, four areas are considered: What does it mean to train as a senior?; are injuries inevitable?; the dangers of having an athlete’s identity; and the hazards of body-image ideals. This work gives voice to older athletes and their coaches, and contributes to studies on physical activity, older people and wellbeing.

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“Yeah, and What’s the Problem?” Embodiment, Cultural Practices and Working out in a Dutch Gym

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Racial Unspeakability

Racial Unspeakability

Leading the left: sociability and the micropolitics of cultural reproduction in grassrootsboxe popolarecoaching

Physical Exercise and Older People: Always a Happy Relationship? Four Qualitative Reflections to Deepen Understanding

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