Rowing 'at home' and 'away': sport, heritage and identity in the Malay world. Issue 4 (4th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mee, Wendy
• Is Part Of: Identities. Volume 24:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 474
• Page End: 492
• Publication Date: 2017-07-04
• Subjects: Malay world -- sport and identity -- border -- rowing; Ethnic groups -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; Group identity -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2016.1200051
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1070-289X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper is grounded in a comparison of the cultural identifications that accompany Sambas Malays' participation in rowing competitions 'at home' and 'away'. Sambas Malays are Indonesian citizens from the regency of Sambas, who ethnically identify as Malay. There, rowing competitions provide the sociocultural infrastructure for developing local and translocal cultural identifications. Two related, yet distinguishable, cultural identifications are evident, each associated with a specific rowing infrastructure. When contests occur 'at home', rowing is steeped in local Sambas Malay culture and heritage. However, contests 'away', in areas loosely identified as 'Malay', generate identifications with a regionally based Malay culture and consociality. Utilizing a non-positivistic conceptualization of 'border', this paper considers the intersection of culture, politics, economy, geography and mobility in everyday bordering practices producing two overlapping cultural identifications.