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  • Becoming roller derby grrrls: Exploring the gendered play of affect in mediated sport cultures

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    Pavlidis, Adele
    Fullagar, Simone
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    Pavlidis, Adele
    Fullagar, Simone P.
    Year published
    2013
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    This article explores how the global revival of roller derby as an alternative sport for women has been mobilised through online social networks, league promotion and fan sites that create imagined communities of 'roller grrrls'. In the creation of sport culture we argue that the virtual performance of 'derby' identities is as significant as the embodiment of play. Like other sports, derby sites mobilise affect (passion, pleasure, pain, desire to play) through a discourse of 'empowerment' that urges women to overcome limits and reinvent gendered subjectivity. However, within the virtual space of roller derby, complex affects ...
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    This article explores how the global revival of roller derby as an alternative sport for women has been mobilised through online social networks, league promotion and fan sites that create imagined communities of 'roller grrrls'. In the creation of sport culture we argue that the virtual performance of 'derby' identities is as significant as the embodiment of play. Like other sports, derby sites mobilise affect (passion, pleasure, pain, desire to play) through a discourse of 'empowerment' that urges women to overcome limits and reinvent gendered subjectivity. However, within the virtual space of roller derby, complex affects are produced and circulated within power relations that can include or exclude. Through an analysis of the way affect is mobilised in selected roller derby sites, we identify how virtual sport identities are connected through the movement of 'affects' across bodies and leagues. These affects both circumscribe and undermine the notion of a single derby community.
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    Journal Title
    International Review for the Sociology of Sport
    Volume
    48
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690212446451
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 The Author(s). This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Gender Specific Studies
    Communications Technologies not elsewhere classified
    Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography
    Commercial Services
    Sociology
    Cultural Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47006
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