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Identity, Belonging, and Community in Mens Roller Derby

Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport. No longer a women-only sport, roller derby is now played by all genders and has been heralded as a model of inclusivity within sport.

Identity, Belonging, and Community in Mens Roller Derby offers an insight into how mens roller derby culture is created and maintained, how members forge an identity for themselves and their team, and how they create feelings of belonging and inclusivity. Through in-depth ethnographic study of a specific, localised roller derby community, this book examines how practices of skills capital intersect with different configurations of masculinity in a continual struggle between traditional and inclusive models of sport.

An interrogation of the ways a DIY sport can be seen to be achieved, experienced, and understood in everyday practice, this book will appeal to scholars of men, masculinities, and sport. Additionally, the methodological discussions will be of value to ethnographers and researchers who have had to deal with a disruptive presence.

Dawn Fletcher is a qualitative researcher working in the fields of gender and sport. She has published articles on skills capital and trans inclusion in roller derby and is especially interested in the possibilities for diversity and inclusion in alternative sports.

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Identity, Belonging, and Community in Mens Roller Derby

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Identity, Belonging, and Community in Mens Roller Derby

Dawn Fletcher

First published 2020

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First, thanks must go to all of those who supported me through my doctorate: my supervisors Lorna Warren and Tom Clark; my journal colleagues Ruth Beresford and Lauren White; my housemates Jen Hughes, Steve Woolass, Sprocket, and Hendricks; my league the Sheffield Steel Roller Derby, especially the Crucibelles.

In the writing of this book, additional thanks go to my family for giving me the time and space to write without having to worry too much about the other parts of life.

Finally, thank you to all the members of The Inhuman League, past and present, but especially to Fin. I, quite literally, could not have done this without you. I might not see you as much as I would like, but I love you all. Despite any of the difficulties I have laid bare, you are still, and will always be, my very favourite mens sports team. And, yes, I still have the Zom B Cru helmet covers. They are ready and waiting whenever you need them.

Bench	Area set aside for skaters who are not participating in the current jam, the line-up manager, and the bench manager.
Bench manager	Person who gives instructions to the skaters participating in the jam. They will often advise skaters on strategy and have an overview of what is happening in the game. They can also call official reviews.
BI	Barrow Infernos. Mens team participating in Tier 1 of British Champs during the 2016 season.
Block	The action of contacting an opposing skater. A block can be positional, where a blocker will position themselves in the way of an opposing skater, or physical, where a blocker will push or hit the opposing skater. In order to be a legal hit, contact must be to a legal target zone, with a legal blocking zone.
Blocker	Skaters who participate in a jam but are not the points scorers are called blockers. They may block the opposition in any legal manner, often working together to create walls that the opposing jammer will try to break through.
Bout	A game of roller derby. Bout carries connotations of choreographed hits, and fighting, so increasingly, the term game is used instead.
Boutfit	Outfit a skater wears to participate in a bout or game of roller derby.
Brit Champs	British Roller Derby Championships. Organised roller derby seasonal tournament in the UK, consisting of an MRDA side and a WFTDA side, split into tiers and groups within tiers. Teams compete to win their group, to go on to playoffs, to be promoted to a higher tier for the next season. Each team playing must organise one home game per year.
BRSF	British Roller Sports Federation. The official governing body for roller sports in Great Britain, including roller derby.
CTB	Crash Test Brummies. Mens team participating in Tier 2 of British Champs during the 2016 season.
Crucibelles	SSRDs B-Team.
Flat Track Stats	A website with information about roller derby games. Teams submit results of games to the site, which they can then use for rankings, and to calculate the likely score of a match-up between two teams.
Game sanctioning	If a roller derby game is played between two MRDA teams, following the MRDA ruleset, teams can apply for the game to be sanctioned, meaning that the results of the game will count towards ranking points on the MRDA system. A high ranking means a team could be eligible to compete in the MRDA championships. The WFTDA have a similar system.

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