‘If you miss the ball, you look like a total muppet!’ Boys investing in their bodies in physical education and sport
Authors
Hill, JoanneIssue Date
2013-08-15Subjects
embodimentmasculinity
ethnicity
capital
physical education
C890 Psychology not elsewhere classified
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Connections have been drawn between masculinity, muscularity and physical or social status in sport. Not only are sporting bodies often related to masculinity but also to whiteness, leading to the devaluing of Asian boys’ bodies and sporting experiences. This paper draws on three British Asian teenage boys’ visual and verbal narratives to enquire how they negotiate these connections in their physical education and recreational sport experiences. Bourdieu’s notion of capital is used to make sense of boys’ ways of investing in their bodies to manage their status in school. Drawing from focus-group interviews which used participant-driven photography and photo elicitation techni- ques, the research indicates how three boys invested in their bodies by doing particular types of physical activity that would enable them to develop muscularity, fitness and/or motor competence, to attain or retain physical and social capital in school. Along the way, they add pertinent comments on the intersections of masculinity and ethnicity in constructing and performing a sporting body. Keywords:Citation
Hill J (2015) '‘If you miss the ball, you look like a total muppet!’ Boys investing in their bodies in physical education and sport', Sport, Education and Society, 20 (6), pp.762-779.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisJournal
Sport, Education and SocietyAdditional Links
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13573322.2013.820695Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1357-3322ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13573322.2013.820695