This important new study examines the changing place and meaning
of lifestyle sports - parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing
and others - and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to
the dominant meanings and experience of 'sport' and physical
culture.
Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, the
book offers a re-evaluation of theoretical frameworks with which
lifestyle sports have been understood, and focuses on aspects of
their cultural politics that have received little attention,
particularly the racialization of lifestyle sporting spaces.
Centrally, it re-assess the political potential of lifestyle
sports, considering if lifestyle sports cultures present
alternative identities and spaces that challenge the dominant
ideologies of sport, and the broader politics of identity, in the
21st century.
It explores a range of key contemporary themes in lifestyle
sport, including:
- identity and the politics of difference
- commercialization and globalization
- sportscapes, media discourse and lived reality
- risk and responsibility
- governance and regulation
- the racialization of lifestyle sports spaces
- lifestyle sports outside of the Global North
- the use of lifestyle sport to engage non-privileged youth
Casting new light on the significance of sport and sporting
subcultures within contemporary society, this book is essential
reading for students or researcher working in the sociology of
sport, leisure studies or cultural studies.
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