The cultural politics of lifestyle sports /
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| Author / Creator: | Wheaton, Belinda, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2013. |
| Description: | ix, 235 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge critical studies in sport Routledge critical studies in sport. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9289048 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conceptualising lifestyle sport: From subculture to neo-tribes
- 3. Researching lifestyle sports: ethnography, insider accounts and the politics of representation
- Section Two. Mapping the lifestyle sport subcultures
- 4. Contested identities, discourses of authenticity, and the media
- 5. Sold out? Commercialisation and globalisation re-examined
- 6. Escaping urban life: lifestyle sport, âÇ nature' and environmentalism
- 7. Governance and regulation
- 8. Parkour, urban space and transgression
- Section Three. Lifestyle sport, identity and (politics of) difference
- 10. Theorising identity and difference: discourses of gender and race
- 11. Silver surfers: surfing and embodiment through the life course
- 12. Skateboarding and surfing in (post-Apartheid) South Africa
- 13. Inclusivity and the discourses of gender in Parkour
- 14. Surfin' USA: White masculinity and the exclusion of the African American surfer
- 15. Conclusions: The political potential of lifestyle sport reconsidered
