Immersion
Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity
Seiten
2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9962-5 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9962-5 (ISBN)
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 -- .
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 foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health. The book argues that the self-representations of marathon swimming are at odds with its lived realities, and that this reflects the entrenched and limited discursive resources available for thinking about the sporting body in the wider social and cultural context.
The book is aimed primarily at readers at undergraduate level and upwards with an interest in sociology, the sociology of the body, the sociology of sport, gender and the sociology of health and illness. -- .
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 foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health. The book argues that the self-representations of marathon swimming are at odds with its lived realities, and that this reflects the entrenched and limited discursive resources available for thinking about the sporting body in the wider social and cultural context.
The book is aimed primarily at readers at undergraduate level and upwards with an interest in sociology, the sociology of the body, the sociology of sport, gender and the sociology of health and illness. -- .
Karen Throsby is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds -- .
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 -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.06.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Ethnographies |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black & white |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-9962-5 / 0719099625 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-9962-5 / 9780719099625 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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