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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Introduction; Marathon swimming; Aquatic sociology; Immersion; Notes; I Becoming and belonging; 1 Becoming; Techniques of the body; Sensory transformations; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Unexpected pleasures; Recoding suffering as pleasure; Novel pleasures; Conclusion; 3 Authentic swimming; Brittany King; Diana Nyad; The arbitrariness of rules; Respect; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Making it count; Bearing witness.
- 'What gets measured, gets improved''There's no marching band ... '; Conclusion; Notes; II The good body; 5 Who are you swimming for?; Charitable swimming; 'It just makes perfect sense ... '; Win-win; Swimming to swim; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Gendering swimming; 'We're all just swimmers'; Making gender matter; Gendered lives, gendered leisure; Resisting gender; A feminist politics of swimming?; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Heroic fatness; Heroic fatness; Unsettling heroic fatness; Conclusion; Notes; 8 Failing bodies; Injured bodies; 'After all, you're doing your bit to stay healthy'; DNF; Conclusion; Notes.