Martial Art Destination Training Camps as Racial, Classed and Gendered Sporting Projects: A Global Comparative Study

In my proposed PhD project I will interrogate privilege at the nexus of sport, tourism and issues surrounding race, class and gender. There is a new trend emerging in sporting tourism: martial art training camps abroad. Martial art training camps are now established in the places of origin of certain martial arts such as Judo in Japan, Muay Thai in Thailand and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Brazil. Regardless of the martial art being studied, all these training camps use similar discourses to sell their services such as invoking discourses and rhetorics of ‘authenticity’, commoditizing race and advertising comfort. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Caroline Fusco

Student:

Partner:

Waseda University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

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