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, this foundati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Throsby, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Identität
Körper
Abenteuersport
Schwimmen
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Long distance swimming.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
Sports > Aspect sociologique.
Nage de fond.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Becoming and belonging
  • 1. Becoming
  • 2. Unexpected pleasures
  • 3. Authentic swimming
  • 4. Making it count
  • Part II: The good body
  • 5. Who are you swimming for?
  • 6. Gendering swimming
  • 7. Heroic fatness
  • 8. Failing bodies
  • Conclusion

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