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At Swim
(Paperback)
Brendan Mac Evilly, Michael O'Reilly
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Sea swimming is the great leveller; we're all the same in a pair of
togs. No one minds who you are or what you've done; the question is
`are you getting in?' Popular for centuries, sea swimming has had a
recent surge in interest, with a growing community now taking the
plunge. Brendan Mac Evilly and Michael O'Reilly, enthusiastic
members of this bathing fraternity, chart their adventures in
forty-three of Ireland's most enticing places to swim. Along the
way, they meet artists who come to the sea for inspiration and
distance swimmers undertaking marathon sea swims. Their
conversations with local dippers touch on the history and lore of
these stunning locations and confirm Ireland's vibrant sea-swimming
culture. Part guidebook, part travelogue, part analysis of our
relationship with the sea, At Swim explores the thrills, fears and
joys of sea swimming.
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. -- .
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