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Thinking Allowed: Boxing and Kickboxing

Boxing and Kickboxing

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Boxing and Kickboxing: Laurie Taylor explores their potential for transforming lives.

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

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