{"id":14525,"date":"2020-11-06T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:47:03","slug":"patrizia-gentile-and-co-investigator-dan-irving-awarded-sshrc-funding-for-their-project-learning-the-ropes-the-beaver-boxing-club-and-the-re-making-of-marginalized-subjectivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2020\/patrizia-gentile-and-co-investigator-dan-irving-awarded-sshrc-funding-for-their-project-learning-the-ropes-the-beaver-boxing-club-and-the-re-making-of-marginalized-subjectivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrizia Gentile and co-investigator Dan Irving awarded SSHRC funding for their project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re\/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Patrizia Gentile and co-investigator Dan Irving awarded SSHRC funding for their project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re\/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/gentile-patrizia\/\">Patrizia Gentile<\/a> (principal investigator) and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/dan-irving\/\">Dan Irving<\/a> (co-investigator), who were recently awarded a $65,680 SSHRC grant for the project <em>Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re\/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in Ottawa in 1943 the Beaver Boxing Club (BBC) trained generations of amateur fighters in the art and science of competitive boxing. Over the decades, the BBC has flourished into a boxing club and community centre, focusing on marginalized communities. The experiences and histories forged in the context of this particular boxing club exist as a transgressive space catering to the lives of those within the boxing community and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project proposes to create a physical and digital archive documenting the role of boxing clubs as unique and somewhat unexpected community spaces that have largely untold histories of \u2018fighting\u2019 against systemic race, gender, and class hierarchies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Pat Gentile (she\/her)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n            \n\n<p>Patrizia Gentile is a Professor and Graduate Advisor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and an Associate Director at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen\u2019s University in the Department of History. Her dissertation was an historical study of beauty contests in Canada from the 1920s to the early 1990s. Professor Gentile is also co-author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/C\/bo70067419.html#:~:text=National%20Security%20as%20Sexual%20Regulation,-Gary%20Kinsman%2CPatrizia&amp;text=From%20the%201950s%20to%20the,targets%20as%20threats%20to%20society.\"><em>The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>(UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>:&nbsp;Cultural\/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of&nbsp;the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities;&nbsp;queer theory<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-dan-irving-he-him\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Dan Irving (he\/him)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-dan-irving-he-him\">\n            \n\n<p>Dan Irving is an Associate Professor cross appointed to the Feminist institute of Social Transformation and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies teaching in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights<\/a>&nbsp;(IIS) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/sexuality-studies-minor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sexuality Studies<\/a>&nbsp;(FIST) programs. In the spring of 2015, he launched his new research project exploring Eminem, \u201caggrieved entitlement\u201d (Kimmel 2008) and other affective dimensions of youth masculinities in times of socio-economic crisis. Currently, Irving is wrapping up his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/egale.ca\/egale-in-action\/working-for-change-a-two-spirit-and-trans-underemployment-study\/\">study<\/a>&nbsp;of trans* and two-spirit individuals experiences of unemployment and underemployment. He has presented findings to academic, professional and public audiences. Irving is the co-editor of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canadianscholars.ca\/book\/trans-activism-in-canada\/\"><em>Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerevents.ca\/queer\/individual\/rupert-raj\">Rupert Raj<\/a>) published by Canadian Scholar\u2019s Press. His work has been published in&nbsp;<em>Transgender Studies Reader 2<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Sexuality Studies<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Australian Feminist Studies<\/em>. Irving also serves on the Board of Directors of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/egale.ca\/\">Egale Canada<\/a>&nbsp;as Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Patrizia Gentile (principal investigator) and Dan Irving (co-investigator), who were recently awarded a $65,680 SSHRC grant for the project Learning the Ropes: The Beaver Boxing Club and the Re\/Making of Marginalized Subjectivities. Established in Ottawa in 1943 the Beaver Boxing Club (BBC) trained generations of amateur fighters in the art and science of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18453,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/18453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}