This urban ethnography explores how a group of men experiencing homelessness collectively produced an economy of moral worth and socially beneficial labor within and through a weekly sport-for-development program in the distinct settler-colonial context of Edmonton, Alberta. For over two decades, weekly floor hockey games have been organized by local health workers as part of a broader sport-based intervention/corrective aimed, in part, at reforming Edmonton’s urban ‘underclass’, one that is decidedly Indigenous. Drawing upon three-years of ethnographic field notes and interviews with ten men aged 25–42 years, our analysis revealed how these weekly sporting interludes served as convivial, safe, and consistent events that nurtured the development of long-term meaningful relationships with other participants and social workers, as well as a genuine sense of community. The weekly floor hockey matches were, thus, powerful sites in the broader struggle for what David Snow and Leon Anderson (1993) have called “salvaging the self” for men who embodied a repertoire of trauma and who are regularly positioned as morally devalued subjects who lacked personal responsibility and self-governance.

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结构性不平等、无家可归和道德价值：通过体育拯救自我？

这部城市民族志探索了一群无家可归的男人如何在艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿独特的定居者殖民背景下，通过每周一次的体育促进发展计划，共同创造出一种具有道德价值和对社会有益的劳动的经济。二十多年来，当地卫生工作者组织了每周一次的曲棍球比赛，作为更广泛的基于体育的干预/纠正措施的一部分，部分目的是改革埃德蒙顿的城市“下层阶级”，这是一个明显的土著人。根据三年的民族志实地记录和对 10 名 25-42 岁男性的采访，我们的分析揭示了这些每周的体育插曲如何成为欢乐、安全和一致的活动，促进与其他参与者建立长期有意义的关系和社会工作者，以及真正的社区意识。因此，每周一次的曲棍球比赛是大卫·斯诺和莱昂·安德森 (1993) 所谓的“拯救自我”的更广泛斗争的有力场所，这些人体现了一系列创伤，并且经常被定位为道德上被贬低的主体缺乏个人责任和自治。