The Work of Sporting Bodies
Football and Masculinity in North Kerala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13100343 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mani Mani (corresponding author), Krishnamurthy Krishnamurthy |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 147-147 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Verge Studies in Global Asias (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5058 • E-ISSN: 2373-5066 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.7.1.0147 |
| OpenAlex | W3134099110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In this paper, we investigate how sevens, a particular, local and dynamic form of football in North Kerala, also functions as an important avenue for work and sustenance. Even as sevens signifies important modes of joyous performative masculinity and subjectivity for men in North Kerala, we examine it as a form of work in order to produce an intersectional and located understanding of gendered subjectivities vis-à-vis sport and the sportsperson. We argue that this largely uncontrolled, irregular network of what we see as sports labour reveals how economic factors, such as high unemployment and recessive job markets, often congeal with social dispositions such as expectations of masculinity to produce unique gendered relationships between sport and its actors in localized South Asian contexts
Aesthetics · Economics · Football · Football players · Geography · Masculinity · Order (exchange · Performative utterance · Political science · Sex work · Sociology · Subjectivity · Sustenance · Work (physics · Doping in Sports · Engineering · Gender Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |