ABSTRACT
This chapter explores empirical examples of the conflict created and orchestrated by one member and the impact that had on the team. The concept of skills capital is further developed to explore how it enables the bearer to display non-conforming or deviant behaviour, and the impact this has on marginal group members. This involves a personal account of acting as a referee during fieldwork, and how negative experiences in one area created difficulties in the other. This section is auto-ethnographic, though underpinned by empirical evidence from another interviewee. An outsider perspective is considered, that of a photographer, to draw links between practices observed within TIL and those of the larger community, whilst also considering how community was experienced at the boundary. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the data, which argues that skills capital enables non-conforming and possibly destructive behaviour, which negates attempts to remain inclusive. Additionally, issues of sexual assault and harassment within the roller derby community to connect this with hegemonic masculinity and patriarchal society are explored.
