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Understanding lifestyle sports : consumption, identity, and difference /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wheaton, Belinda, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge critical studies in sport.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Series editors' foreword by Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald; Acknowledgements; Introduction: mapping the lifestyle sport-scape; Commercialisation: culture, identity and change; 'Chicks dig scars': commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities; Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports; Sustainable adventure: embodied experiences and ecological practices within British climbing; Surfing: from one (cultural) extreme to another; Ambivalent masculinities: identity and difference.