Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

H. Thorpe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

313 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-57944-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

HOLLY THORPE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on the topics of sociology of sport, social theory, physical youth culture, gender, and extreme sports.

Acknowledgements Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies Remembering the Snowboarding Body Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power and the Snowboarding Media Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style and Symbolic Capital Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes and Bad-Asses Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain and Performance Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Sport Migration Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces Body Politics, Social Change and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies Bibliography Notes Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.3.2011
Reihe/Serie	Global Culture and Sport Series
Zusatzinfo	IX, 313 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-230-57944-2 / 0230579442
ISBN-13	978-0-230-57944-6 / 9780230579446
Zustand	Neuware