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Parkour and the City - Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport (Paperback)
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Parkour and the City - Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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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 creative appropriation of urban spaces
as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that
valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger. Â
Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth
of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon,
making it exemplary of new forms of globalized
communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too,
Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent
about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its
glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western
notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most
athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a
“daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of
bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge”
ethos normally associated with extreme sports. Â Â
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