Structural Inequality, Homelessness, and Moral Worth
Salvaging the Self through Sport
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365617 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jordan Koch (0000-0002-9785-5878, McGill University, corresponding author), Jay Scherer (0000-0003-1394-1363, University of Alberta), Rylan Kafara (0000-0003-2900-4796, University of Alberta) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 806-831 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241620931908 |
| OpenAlex | W3035796073 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
This urban ethnography explores how a group of men experiencing homelessness collectively produced an economy of moral worth and socially beneficial labor within and through a weekly sport-for-development program in the distinct settler-colonial context of Edmonton, Alberta. For over two decades, weekly floor hockey games have been organized by local health workers as part of a broader sport-based intervention/corrective aimed, in part, at reforming Edmonton's urban 'underclass', one that is decidedly Indigenous. Drawing upon three-years of ethnographic field notes and interviews with ten men aged 25-42 years, our analysis revealed how these weekly sporting interludes served as convivial, safe, and consistent events that nurtured the development of long-term meaningful relationships with other participants and social workers, as well as a genuine sense of community. The weekly floor hockey matches were, thus, powerful sites in the broader struggle for what David Snow and Leon Anderson (1993) have called 'salvaging the self' for men who embodied a repertoire of trauma and who are regularly positioned as morally devalued subjects who lacked personal responsibility and self-governance
Colonialism · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Underclass · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Learning to Labor
Body and Soul
No More Work
The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development
Sporting Dystopias
Sport
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Brother, Can You Spare a Seat? Developing Recipes of Knowledge in the Ticket Scalping Subculture
Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room
Beyond the Locker Room
The Uses of an Inner-City Sport-for-Development Program
The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City
Homeless people’s leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes
Brief History of Neoliberalism
American Nightmare
A Precariat Charter
Privatizing Responsibility
Imagining Personhood Differently
Governing Homelessness through Running
Urban Outcasts, Disposable Bodies, and Embodied Research in a Western Canadian 'Arriviste' City
Football's coming home
Critical left-realism and sport interventions in divided societies
The politics of sport-for-development
Slap Shot! Sport, Masculinities, and Homelessness in the Downtown Core of a Divided Western Canadian Inner City
Rethinking Sports-Based Community Crime Prevention
Ethnic Spatial Segmentation in Immigrant Destinations-Edmonton and Calgary
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |