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Immersion - Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity (Hardcover)
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Immersion - Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity (Hardcover)
Series: New Ethnographies
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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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