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

Parkour and the City : : Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport / / Jeffrey L. Kidder.

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Kidder, Jeffrey L.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 27 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Thinking Sociologically about Parkour
  • 1. Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport
  • 2. New Prisms of the Possible
  • 3. Young Men in the City
  • 4. Hedging Their Bets
  • Conclusion. Appropriating the City
  • Appendix A. Brief Note on Data and Method
  • Appendix B. On the Parkour Terminology Used i n This Book
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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