Grappling with the Past: Wrestling and Performative Identity in Kenya

Carotenuto, Matthew

doi:10.1080/09523367.2013.861124

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“…While the beauty competitions have disappeared, a strong emphasis on physical fitness is maintained with daily sessions available for a range of sports including football and archery. A central element of the sporting programme at Butlins is wrestling which has a long history and association with popular performances (Portnoy 2006;Chow et al 2016;Carotenuto 2013;Soulliere and Blair 2006). Butlins has maintained a regular programme of wrestling matches for the entertainment of its guests where, unlike some of its other legacy acts, popularity has not waned.…”

Section: The Physical Bodymentioning

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There’ll always be an England – Butlins, Brexit and the heterotopic body

O'Thomas

2018

Journal of European Popular Culture

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This article addresses the role of entertainment and performance in the holiday camp today as a way of understanding its interface with contemporary concerns around the impact of mass immigration and consequent emerging nationalisms. Focussing on the British Butlins holiday camp, which still maintains its original base in the English northeast coastal town of Skegness, the article builds on the work of earlier studies of leisure camps (and camps in general), in locating the function of entertainment as a key engine in driving forward a sense of 'England' which is at the same time nostalgic and isolationist. Within the context of the UK referendum result on June 15 2016 to exit the European Union, alongside recent concerns of new manifestations of racism and the marginalisation of foreign nationals working in the UK, the paper addresses the paradox of the use of a mode that has the capacity to engender empathy as a way of objectifying the Other and consolidating a notion of a single sovereign state. Ultimately, while acknowledging the contribution made by contemporary philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben to the field, the paper revisits and finds Foucault's notion of heterotopias as a more dextrous way of conceiving of the ways in which entertainments are planned, produced and performed at British leisure camps today.

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Section: The Physical Bodymentioning

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There’ll always be an England – Butlins, Brexit and the heterotopic body

O'Thomas

2018

Journal of European Popular Culture

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“…It was not until the establishment of the Arab and African Sports Association (AASA) in the mid 1920s that organized sport took off." 87 Before the Second World War the colonial government had neither the resources nor the inclination to encourage sport among the civilian population to any significant degree. Sport was, however, a key feature of the training of the military and the police.…”

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“These Our Games” – Sport and the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya, c. 1907–1937

Cunningham¹

2015

Hist. Afr.

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: In this article I use oral and documentary evidence gathered during recent fieldwork and archival research in the UK and Kenya to explore the ways in which the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya attempted to use sport to "civilize" and "discipline" the people of Central Kenya. I make a case for the important contributions the topic of sport can make to the study of African and colonial history, and offer a comprehensive critique of the only book-length work which explores the history of sport in colonial Kenya, John Bale and Joe Sang's Kenyan Running (1996).Résumé : Dans cet article, j'utilise des entretiens et des documents collectés pendant ma recherche de terrain et mon travail aux archives au Royaume-Uni et au Kenya afin d'explorer la façon dont la Mission de l'Église d'Écosse au Kenya a tenté d'employer le sport pour "civiliser" et "discipliner" les habitants du Kenya central. Je soutiens que le sport en tant qu'objet peut servir à étudier l'histoire africaine et coloniale et offrir une critique exhaustive du seul livre qui explore l'histoire du sport dans le Kenya colonial: John

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“…Matt Carotenuto makes the same argument for contemporary wrestling in Kenya. See Carotenuto, 2013Carotenuto, , 2016 Cadernos de Estudos Africanos • julho-dezembro de 2021 • 42, 81-102 separatists from the Casamance marched into town the next morning, following a group of women pouring cool water on the ground to symbolize their "peaceful" intentions (Marut, 2010, p. 100). 2 The separatists claimed to have revived a 1950s regional political party known as the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC).…”

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A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism

Deets¹

2021

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Grappling with the Past: Wrestling and Performative Identity in Kenya

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

There’ll always be an England – Butlins, Brexit and the heterotopic body

There’ll always be an England – Butlins, Brexit and the heterotopic body

“These Our Games” – Sport and the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya, c. 1907–1937

A National Struggle: Senegalese wrestling and Casamançais separatism

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