The right to the city: outdoor informal sport and urban belonging in multicultural spacesThe right to the city: outdoor informal sport and urban belonging in multicultural spaces Studies on 'everyday multiculturalism' and 'lived multiculture' have advanced knowledge on the kinds of inclusive everyday spaces and practices that characterise our culturally complex, mobile and superdiverse cities. This paper expands this agenda by exploring informal sporting and leisure interactions amongst migrant and ethnically diverse urban populations. Embedded in a larger comparative city project that examines how urban environments and wider social structures mediate inclusions and exclusions of urban dwellers, this paper presents a case study of temporary migrant workers in Singapore and their participation in outdoor informal sport. It deploys Lefebvre's notion of 'Right to the City' to understand city dwellers' access to urban resources and their collective ability to democratically inhabit the city. Despite structural constraints imposed on marginalised migrants, the nature of informal sport, the spontaneous coming together to play, creative use of public space and a range of convivial practices, generate a sense of urban belonging.
This paper explores marginalisation experienced in mainstream basketball by young Filipino-Australian men from Sydney's western suburbs. Sharing findings from a larger ethnographic study undertaken with Filipino immigrants in Sydney on experiences of everyday racism and resistance, this paper uses a biographical account to examine intricate connections between lives and racialising social processes. In sporting contexts, the body and its comportment provide the sites for domination and resistance. The analysis applies Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine how broad racial formations are embodied in mainstream basketball. Furthermore, this paper examines the ways in which the playing style of 'street ball' is used to engage with corporeality as a mode of everyday anti-racism.
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