TY - JOUR
KW - Europe
KW - article
KW - Capoeira
KW - drawing
KW - Ethnographic research
KW - ethnography
KW - Female
KW - gender
KW - human
KW - human experiment
KW - inclusivity
KW - male
KW - masculinity
KW - scientist
AU - Craig Owen
AU - Nicola Ugolotti
AB - Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian bodily discipline that has now become a global phenomenon. In 2014 the cultural significance of capoeira was recognized on the world stage when it was awarded the special protected status of an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. In the application to this organisation, and in wider advertising material and practitioner literature, capoeira is celebrated as a practice that promotes social cohesion, inclusivity, integration, racial equality and resistance to all forms of oppression. This paper seeks to problematize this inclusive discourse, exploring the extent to which it is both supported and contradicted in the gendered discourses and practices of specific capoeira groups in Europe. Drawing upon ethnographic data, produced through two sets of ethnographic research and the researchers’ 24 years of combined experience as capoeira players, this paper documents the complex and contradictory contexts in which discourses and practices of gender inclusivity are at once promoted and undermined.
DO - 10.1177/1012690217737044
M1 - 6
N1 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
N2 - Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian bodily discipline that has now become a global phenomenon. In 2014 the cultural significance of capoeira was recognized on the world stage when it was awarded the special protected status of an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. In the application to this organisation, and in wider advertising material and practitioner literature, capoeira is celebrated as a practice that promotes social cohesion, inclusivity, integration, racial equality and resistance to all forms of oppression. This paper seeks to problematize this inclusive discourse, exploring the extent to which it is both supported and contradicted in the gendered discourses and practices of specific capoeira groups in Europe. Drawing upon ethnographic data, produced through two sets of ethnographic research and the researchers’ 24 years of combined experience as capoeira players, this paper documents the complex and contradictory contexts in which discourses and practices of gender inclusivity are at once promoted and undermined.
SP - 691
EP - 710
TI - Pra homem, menino e mulher ? Problematizing the gender inclusivity discourse in capoeira
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85069652555&doi=10.1177%2f1012690217737044&partnerID=40&md5=64775f78c74bf0cc81e3830370db7f68
VL - 54
SN - 10126902 (ISSN)
ER -