ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between British Chinese youths’ physical activity practices and their home environments. Bourdieu acknowledges that cultural reproduction is constructed and transformed through social space. By situating British Chinese youths’ physical activity within Bourdieu's field analysis, this chapter aims to explore how these young people construct their ‘tastes’ in physical activity and how they are (re)produced and transformed through interactions within their home environments. Bourdieu's analysis of cultural production is dynamic and situated within and constituted in relation to others. As such, the relational concept of cultural production is useful for exploring how British Chinese youths inhabit the myriad social spaces in their everyday lives which may or may not align with their cultural dispositions regarding physical activity at home. This chapter provides implications for promoting British Chinese youths’ engagements in physical activity, and highlights critical factors that influence their capacity to contest, obfuscate and extend traditional cultural norms through physical activity at home.
