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Lifestyle Sport

Belinda Wheaton
4.9/5 (31727 ratings)
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Description: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 present alternative identities and spaces that challenge the dominant ideologies of sport, and the broader politics of identity, in the 21st century.It explores a range of key contemporary themes in lifestyle sport, including:identity and the politics of differencecommercialization and globalizationsportscapes, media discourse and lived realityrisk and responsibilitygovernance and regulationthe racialization of lifestyle sports spaceslifestyle sports outside of the Global Norththe use of lifestyle sport to engage non-privileged youthCasting new light on the significance of sport and sporting subcultures within contemporary society, this book is essential reading for students or researcher working in the sociology of sport, leisure studies or cultural studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lifestyle Sport. To get started finding Lifestyle Sport, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
248
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2014
ISBN
1299744516

Lifestyle Sport

Belinda Wheaton
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: 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 present alternative identities and spaces that challenge the dominant ideologies of sport, and the broader politics of identity, in the 21st century.It explores a range of key contemporary themes in lifestyle sport, including:identity and the politics of differencecommercialization and globalizationsportscapes, media discourse and lived realityrisk and responsibilitygovernance and regulationthe racialization of lifestyle sports spaceslifestyle sports outside of the Global Norththe use of lifestyle sport to engage non-privileged youthCasting new light on the significance of sport and sporting subcultures within contemporary society, this book is essential reading for students or researcher working in the sociology of sport, leisure studies or cultural studiesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lifestyle Sport. To get started finding Lifestyle Sport, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
248
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2014
ISBN
1299744516

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