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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kidder, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lowell), 1977- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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