Belinda Wheaton (ed.)

Understanding Lifestyle Sport

Consumption, Identity and Difference
Herausgeber: Wheaton, Belinda

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of the popularity, significance and meaning of 'lifestyle' sports, such as snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780415259545
• ISBN-10: 0415259541
• Artikelnr.: 21334631

Autorenporträt

Belinda Wheaton

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Mapping the lifestyle sport-scape 2. 'Chicks dig scars':
Commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities 3.
Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports 4. Sustainable
Adventure: Embodied experiences and ecological practices within British
climbing 5. Surfing: From one (cultural) extreme to another 6. Taking
risks: Identity, masculinities and rock climbing 7. 'New Lads'? Competing
masculinities in the windsurfing culture 8. 'Mandatory equipment': Women in
Adventure Racing 9. 'Anyone can play this game': Ultimate Frisbee, identity
and difference 10. Extreme America: The cultural politics of extreme sports
in 1990s America