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Immersion : marathon swimming, embodiment and identity /
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | New ethnographies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526100467 1526100460 9781526100474 1526100479 1526114976 9781526114976 |