Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-57944-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Global Culture and Sport Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorpe, H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.