
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
BOXING AND KICKBOXING: Can they transform lives? Boxing has long been cited as a potential cure for a range of social ills, including criminal justice failures, poor mental health and childhood trauma, yet little research has been carried out into how and why such claims exist. Laurie Taylor talks to Deborah Jump, Reader in Criminology at the Manchester Metropolitan University, about the potential of boxing as a mechanism for change among vulnerable groups.
Also, Amit Singh, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester discusses his study of a kickboxing gym in East London where people struggle to gain an identity as a ‘fighter’, one that transcends race, class, sexuality and gender.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
4.5
294294 ratings
BOXING AND KICKBOXING: Can they transform lives? Boxing has long been cited as a potential cure for a range of social ills, including criminal justice failures, poor mental health and childhood trauma, yet little research has been carried out into how and why such claims exist. Laurie Taylor talks to Deborah Jump, Reader in Criminology at the Manchester Metropolitan University, about the potential of boxing as a mechanism for change among vulnerable groups.
Also, Amit Singh, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester discusses his study of a kickboxing gym in East London where people struggle to gain an identity as a ‘fighter’, one that transcends race, class, sexuality and gender.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
5,409 Listeners
1,834 Listeners
158 Listeners
124 Listeners
7,676 Listeners
294 Listeners
506 Listeners
1,813 Listeners
1,081 Listeners
897 Listeners
1,941 Listeners
1,052 Listeners
1,902 Listeners
594 Listeners
704 Listeners
858 Listeners
237 Listeners
57 Listeners
288 Listeners
832 Listeners
77 Listeners
818 Listeners
747 Listeners
2,977 Listeners