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Urban Marathons - Rhythms, Places, Mobilities (Paperback)
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Urban Marathons - Rhythms, Places, Mobilities (Paperback)
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This original social science text approaches marathon running as an
everyday practice and a designed event, to draw upon and contribute
to the literature on practice theory, urban events, rhythmanalysis
and mobility. It bridges sport studies and discussions within
sociology and geography about practice, movement and the city.
Inspired by theoretical debates about embodied and multi-sensuous
mobilities, social and material practices, and urban rhythms, this
book explores the characteristics of marathon running as a bodily
practice on the one hand and, on the other, marathon training
grounds and events as unique places. This account takes marathon
running seriously, using sociological and geographical theory to
understand the practice in and of itself. Based on original
empirical research and accessible to readers, taking them to
training sessions in Copenhagen and to marathons in Tokyo, Kyoto,
Berlin, Frankfurt, Valencia and Copenhagen, it draws out the
globalised, codified and generic nature of marathon practices and
design, yet also brings out the significant local differences. The
book examines in ethnographic detail how marathon practices and
places are produced by various materialities, cultural scripts,
experts, runners and spectators, and practiced in embodied,
multi-sensuous and 'emplaced' ways by ordinary runners. It develops
a sociological practice approach to marathon running and
geographical understanding of marathon places and rhythms. It
demonstrates that marathon running is of broad interest because it
calls for and allows lively and expressive ways of conducting and
writing research and understanding the becoming of bodies, the
intertwining of biological and mechanical rhythms, and the eventful
potential of streets. It will appeal to postgraduate students and
scholars in sport studies, geography and sociology interested in
running, active mobility and ethnography, as well as tourism and
urban events. The book will also appeal to general readers with an
interest in marathon running.
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