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 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Brazil, Judo in Japan and Muay Thai in Thailand. 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:

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

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