Immersion - Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Ethnographies
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Karen Throsby
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-9962-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving > General
LSN:	0-7190-9962-5
Barcode:	9780719099625

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