Titlebook: Seriousness and Women‘s Roller Derby; Gender, Organization Maddie Breeze Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 gen

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2946-3173 a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency between dichotomies of voluntarism and determinism.978-1-137-50485-2Series ISSN 2946-3173 Series E-ISSN 2946-3181

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,A Sport for Women Who Don’t Like Sport?,edly asking each other in a faux-naive voice, ‘What is a roller derby’, the ‘a’ in our snarky intonation indicating the supposed ignorance of imagined interlocutors; we knew what roller derby was, they did not.

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Non-/Seriousness: Playing the Game and Changing the Rules,monstrates that broader questions of gender and organization are at stake in a sociological approach to seriousness, as are understandings of the relations between voluntarism and determinism in the possibilities and limits of reflexive, deliberate collective action.

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Beginnings: How Weird It Was Back in the Day,’s recent past and roller derby’s short history. In her interview, Pauline Baynes referred to a league-wide meeting held in 2009, arranged specifically to debate whether to apply to join the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). This question raised a second, whether or not to prioritize com

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Becomings: More Structured and More of a Sport,lose in 2013. After deciding to ‘be competitive’ participants were faced with how to organize the league in pursuit of winning games — how to put the value of competition into practice. Given the shift from roller derby as ‘sport for women who don’t like sport’ to the prospect of ‘really athletic pe

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Just a Big Sexy Joke?,nized roller derby as a UK sport’ (UKRDA, 2011: n/p). When the UKRDA announced this news online, one participant remarked, ‘Now no one from any other sport can say roller derby isn’t a real sport’ (CeeCee, field notes, February 2011; see Breeze, 2013). While there was an emergent consensus among par

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Making It Up,contingent outcomes of their collective action; ‘you can control the direction that you’re going in … you can give everybody a say … if people aren’t happy you can look at if we could change the league in any way to try and make them happy … ’ (The Beefcake, individual interview, October 2010). Ther

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Non-/Seriousness: Playing the Game and Changing the Rules,t refusing the terms of such recognition, and do so in practices that I have analyzed as non-/serious. Participants’ pursuit of serious recognition demonstrates that broader questions of gender and organization are at stake in a sociological approach to seriousness, as are understandings of the rela