Boxing family: Theorising competition with boxers in Accra, Ghana

被引:3
作者
Hopkinson, Leo [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Durham, Social Anthropol, Durham, England
[2] Univ Durham, Dept Anthropol, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
Boxing; competition; Ghana; kinship; neoliberalism; subjectivity; sport; KINSHIP; NEOLIBERALISM; MASCULINITY; POLITICS; SELVES; SELF;
D O I
10.1177/0308275X231202083
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Anthropologists have often conceptualized competition by contrasting it with cooperation, even when collective ends are sought and achieved by competing. This approach tells us little about the qualities of the relationships and subjectivities that competition sustains. I explore the qualities of competitive relationships and subjectivities among Accra boxers, many of whom feel a constant, simmering sense of competition with one another. Boxers describe these competitive relationships using kinship idioms, and distinguish keenly between these kinship metaphors and non-metaphoric kin relations. A sustained comparison between competitive relations and kin relations in Accra reveals how competition intertwines subjectivities and futures, rather than producing hyper-individualistic and self-interested 'neoliberal subjects'. I thus argue that boxers use kinship as a metaphoric resource to help them navigate the fraught intimacies that competition fosters. Their rendering of competition as kinship suggests how anthropologists might theorize the contradictory nature of competitive relationships with more nuance.
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页数:21
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