Parkour and the City : Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport /

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"Parkour is an emerging sport in which practitioners train themselves to move through urban environments in creative and often risky ways. Comprised of a pastiche of stylized movements and dependent on YouTube videos, parkour is quintessentially postmodern, and this book studies parkour from wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kidder, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lowell), 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Parkour.
Extreme sports.
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Sports & Recreation > General.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Outdoor Skills.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Running & Jogging.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Extreme Sports.
Sports extrêmes > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Parkour > Aspect social.
Extreme sports > Juvenile literature.
Parkour > Social aspects.
Juvenile works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Thinking Sociologically about Parkour; 1. Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport; 2. New Prisms of the Possible; 3. Young Men in the City; 4. Hedging Their Bets; Conclusion. Appropriating the City; Appendix A. Brief Note on Data and Method; Appendix B. On the Parkour Terminology Used in This Book; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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