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作者

来源

EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY,Vol.49,Issue3,P.251-270

语言

英文

关键字

left-behind children; martial arts education; home; China; urbanization

作者单位

[Dong, Xuan] East China Normal Univ, Dept Educ, 3663 North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China. Dong, X (reprint author), East China Normal Univ, Dept Educ, 3663 North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China. E-Mail: dongx@126.com

摘要

This article examines how martial arts students retell their stories about being left behind and how they have experienced, viewed, and struggled with the invisible violence. Popularly known as the hometown of Chinese martial arts, Dengfeng is home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students. Drawing on 12-month-long fieldwork, this article highlights how martial arts students have (re)constructed the meaning of home(lessness) through bridging their past as left-behind children and the present as martial arts students. This article argues that such redefining of home(lessness) is resulted not only from the practice of invisible violence but also from how martial arts students engage with the structural, symbolic, and normalized violence.