Wong, Y.N. orcid.org/0000-0003-1776-5221 (2024) LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence. Current Sociology, 72 (5). pp. 946-966. ISSN 0011-3921
Abstract
This article examines the role of dance shoes in LGBT+ ballroom dancers’ identity formation and expression on the dancefloor. Applying Entwistle’s (2015) ‘situated bodily practice’ to an analysis of ethnographic field notes and 35 interviews, I highlight that dancers’ performative constitution of subversive identities through reiterative mobilisation of the traditional symbolic values of dance shoes is influenced by the material. The article makes a key contribution to sociological knowledge on performativity through an introduction of materialities of place, bodies and artefacts into a close reading of reiterative acts. I argue that a closer look into performative acts is necessary for determining whether and how resistance is constituted, recognised and reproduced, taking into account how materialities interweave with discourse in order to give credit to subversive agents emerging in the micro-moments.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Ballroom; dance shoes; embodiment; LGBT+; materialities; performativity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2024 15:44 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2024 16:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/00113921231182182 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215218 |