The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

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Belinda Wheaton

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Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

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This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports -- parkour, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and others -- and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the meaning and experience of 'sport', physical culture and identity in the twenty-first century. The book offers a critique of the main theoretical frameworks with which lifestyle sports are usually understood, including the concepts of 'subculture', 'neo-tribe', 'symbolic community' and 'serious leisure'. Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, it explores a range of key contemporary themes in lifestyle sport, such as: sport scapes, media discourse and lived reality age, risk and responsibility nature and environmentalism governance and regulation identity and the politics of difference commercialization and globalization. Casting new light on the significance of sport and sporting subcultures within contemporary society, this book is essential reading for any student or researcher working in the sociology of sport or cultural studies.

Author Biography:

Belinda Wheaton is Principal Research Fellow in Sport and Leisure Cultures at the University of Brighton, UK. Her extensive research on lifestyle sport cultures has been published across a wide range of international journals and edited collections. She is also the editor of Understanding Lifestyle Sports: consumption, identity and difference (Routledge, 2004) and The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports (Routledge, 2012).

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July 23rd, 2013

Author

Belinda Wheaton

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

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15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

248

Series

Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

Dimensions

156x234x15

ISBN-13

9780415478588

Product ID

10013967

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