Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City - Raymen, Thomas
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This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the paradox of parkour against a backdrop of late-capitalism.

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This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the paradox of parkour against a backdrop of late-capitalism.
Autorenporträt
Thomas Raymen is Lecturer in Criminology at Plymouth University, UK. He is the co-founder of the Deviant Leisure Research Network and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics including commodified leisure and social harm, crime control and urban space, and violence, consumerism and violent media. His research interests span the fields of criminology, leisure studies, moral philosophy, and cultural geography.