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

Informationen zum Autor Kidder, Jeffrey L. Klappentext In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes. In Parkour and the City, Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this internet-friendly twenty-first-century sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.     Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  Introduction: Thinking Sociologically about Parkour1          Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport2          New Prisms of the Possible3          Young Men in the City4          Hedging Their BetsConclusions: Appropriating the City  Appendix A: Brief Note on Data and MethodAppendix B: On the Parkour Terminology Used in This BookNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey L. Kidder
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780813571959
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7195-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories