A “Feel-Good” Future
Hopes and Class Identities Among Martial Arts Students in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9729241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xuan Dong (0000-0001-7697-4299, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 848-867 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124517747366 |
| OpenAlex | W2777452594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines how a group of martial arts students in China make sense of their futures and how their hopes toward a “feel-good” future reveal and affect their perceived class identities. Twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China. Dengfeng was home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students in 2012. By uncovering the hopes, aspirations, and perceived class identities of people in martial arts schools, this article argues that the process of class-making for these martial arts students results in constantly reorienting their hopes. These hopes often reflect social comparisons with familiar others like parents, friends, and acquaintances
Art · China · Class (philosophy · Ethnography · Futures contract · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Martial arts · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |