‘These are not my people’: queer sport spaces and the complexities of community
| Autor: | Krista Baliko, Claire Carter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sexual identity
Invisibility media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 050109 social psychology Gender studies Human sexuality Racism Idealism Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management 0502 economics and business Queer 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Androgyny Heteronormativity 050212 sport leisure & tourism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Leisure Studies. 36:696-707 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4496 0261-4367 |
| Popis: | Community is often imagined as a space of common beliefs, shared values and/or common purpose. For many individuals of non-normative gender or sexual identity, sports are a means to find and/or develop community. Fostered as spaces of inclusivity and an alternative to heteronormativity and cissexism, sports teams enable and promote a progressive community potential. However, they simultaneously erect overarching boundaries at the expense of some bodies and identities. Based on narratives of 30 diversely identified queer individuals, the authors find that within Canadian queer sports spaces complexities with respect to diverse embodiments – from femme invisibility, racism and trans acceptance, to a preference for androgyny, and fat phobia – ignite uncertainties of community idealism. This paper argues for a re-conceptualisation of community that is based on complexity and struggle, rather than on an assumed unity and, thus privileged safety. |
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