Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

Name: Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports
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ISBN: 9781134020430

ISBN-10: 1134020430

ISBN-13: 9781134020430

Edition: 2014

Authors: Belinda Wheaton

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This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports - parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others - and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the dominant meanings and experience of 'sport' and physical culture. Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, the book offers a re-evaluation of theoretical frameworks with which lifestyle sports have been understood, and focuses on aspects of their cultural politics that have received little attention, particularly the racialization of lifestyle sporting spaces. Centrally, it re-assess the political potential of lifestyle sports, considering if lifestyle sports cultures…

Book details

List price: $32.49
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 7/23/2013
Pages: 248
Language: English