Understanding Lifestyle Sport (eBook, ePUB)

Consumption, Identity and Difference
Redaktion: Wheaton, Belinda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of lifestyle or extreme sports, such as snowboarding, skateboarding, and surfing. An exciting team of international authors argue that these activities are based around a very different set of assumptions, rules and motivations from traditional competitive sports, with emphasis being on the lived experience and the consumption of new objects and technologies. As a result, lifestyle sports have a huge amount to tell us about the relationship between sport, society, and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134511877
• Artikelnr.: 49376175

Autorenporträt

Belinda Wheaton

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Mapping the lifestyle sport-scape 2. 'Chicks dig scars':
Commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities 3.
Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports 4. Sustainable
Adventure: Embodied experiences and ecological practices within British
climbing 5. Surfing: From one (cultural) extreme to another 6. Taking
risks: Identity, masculinities and rock climbing 7. 'New Lads'? Competing
masculinities in the windsurfing culture 8. 'Mandatory equipment': Women in
Adventure Racing 9. 'Anyone can play this game': Ultimate Frisbee, identity
and difference 10. Extreme America: The cultural politics of extreme sports
in 1990s America