04251oam 2200697I 450 991079036930332120230126205531.01-136-31413-X1-280-68177-297866136587150-203-11928-21-136-31414-810.4324/9780203119280 (CKB)2670000000205305(EBL)981687(OCoLC)804665742(SSID)ssj0000681913(PQKBManifestationID)11397095(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000681913(PQKBWorkID)10663368(PQKB)11306079(MiAaPQ)EBC981687(Au-PeEL)EBL981687(CaPaEBR)ebr10569342(CaONFJC)MIL365871(OCoLC)796841109(FINmELB)ELB134714(EXLCZ)99267000000020530520180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe urban geography of boxing race, class, and gender in the ring /Benita HeiskanenNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (211 p.)Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;13Description based upon print version of record.1-138-00887-7 0-415-50226-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; The Urban Geography of Boxing; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. On the Barrio's Ropes; 2. Wo/Manly Art at the Gym; 3. Business is Business Backdoors; 4. The Limelight of the Ring; 5. Through the Media's Lens; 6. Politicking in Combat Zones; 7. The Ivory Tower in the Real World; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index"This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and boxing insiders in Texas, it discusses boxing from the vantage point of the sundry players, who are involved with it: the labor force, promoters, handlers, ringside officials, medical professionals, media, and the audiences. The various parties have multiple stakes in the sport. For some, boxing is about physical empowerment; others are in it for the money; some deploy it for ideological purposes; yet others use it to claim their 15-minutes of fame, and frequently the various interests overlap. In this book, Benita Heiskanen makes a broader connection between boxing and the spatial organization of racialized, class-based, and gendered bodies within particular urban geographies. Journeying actual sites where the sport is organized, such as the barrio, boxing gym, and competition venues, she maps the ways in which boxing insiders negotiate a variety of conflicting agendas at local, regional, and national scales. Beyond the United States, the worker-athletes conduct their labor within global socioeconomic conditions, business networks, and legal principles. Through this sporting context, Heiskanens discussion discloses some complex socio-historical, cultural, and political power relations between urban margins and centers, with ramifications far beyond boxing. This book will be of interest to readers in Sport Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Labor Studies, and American Studies"--Provided by publisher.Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;13.BoxingSocial aspectsUnited StatesBoxingSocial aspectsCross-cultural studiesSociology, UrbanBoxingSocial aspectsBoxingSocial aspectsSociology, Urban.796.83SPO000000SOC026030SPO066000bisacshHeiskanen Benita.1531668MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790369303321The urban geography of boxing3777536UNINA