Sisterhood and affective politics: the CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt Rodriguez Castro, Laura, Pavlidis, Adele, Kennelly, Millicent and Nichols, Erin 2021, Sisterhood and affective politics: the CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt, International journal of cultural studies, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1177/1367877920987237. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Sisterhood and affective politics: the CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt Author(s) Rodriguez Castro, Laura orcid.org/0000-0002-8431-5215 Pavlidis, Adele Kennelly, Millicent Nichols, Erin Journal name International journal of cultural studies Start page 1 End page 20 Total pages 20 Publisher SAGE Publications Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2021-01-21 ISSN 1367-8779 1460-356X Keyword(s) affect feminism gender politics Middle Eastern feminisms risk roller derby social media sport visual affective discourse analysis Summary This article narrates the affects and experiences of the CaiRollers, the first and only roller derby team in Egypt. Through visual affective discourse analysis of their Instagram account and interviews with team members, the article addresses the question: What do physical practices such as roller derby ‘do’ in e/affecting and mobilising change? In conversation with feminisms from the Middle East, our analysis highlights how the team’s ‘sisterhood’ is a site of affective politics that transcends the roller derby track. At the same time, a desire to be tough and to embrace risk permeated the CaiRollers discourses. Yet, while the team has established its legitimacy within the transnational roller derby community, we narrate the obstacles they face in Egypt. In sum, we found that the CaiRollers involvement in roller derby was entangled in mobilising change in political movements, gender politics, transnational mobilities and questions of legitimacy and sport. Notes In-press Language eng DOI 10.1177/1367877920987237 Indigenous content off Field of Research 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services 19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing 20 Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30149281 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 18 Mar 2021, 13:09:55 EST Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 04:01:47 EST Wed, 24 Mar 2021, 13:54:27 EST Thu, 25 Mar 2021, 05:04:05 EST Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 11:43:14 EST Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 11:46:41 EST Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 14:56:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 8 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 24 Mar 2021, 13:54:27 EST

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