This special issue on hand-to-hand sports aims to analyse how collective identities and forms of group and community belonging are defined, strengthened, built, imagined or even denied in the sportive and social contexts in which hand-to-hand combat or wrestling disciplines are practised. Considering the wide-ranging cross-cultural distribution of combat and wrestling practices in very different cultures and societies across the contemporary world, this issue intends to provide a (not-exhaustive) comparison of practices originating in highly heterogeneous geographical, social and cultural contexts. Indeed, comparisons focus on specific practices (combat and wrestling activities) and their relationship with belonging. The contributing scholars have studied and reflected on a particular style of wrestling or combat practice and its links to social belonging and identity, whether it be expressed on regional or national, local or global, social or ethnic, institutional or ‘counter-cultural’, symbolic or concrete levels.

这个关于肉搏运动的特刊旨在分析在肉搏搏斗或摔跤的体育和社会背景下，集体身份以及群体和社区归属感的形式是如何被定义、加强、建立、想象的，甚至是被否定的。学科被实践。考虑到当今世界非常不同的文化和社会中格斗和摔跤实践的广泛跨文化分布，本期旨在对源自高度异质的地理、社会和文化背景的实践进行（非详尽的）比较。事实上，比较侧重于特定的实践（战斗和摔跤活动）及其与归属感的关系。