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Contemporary Meanings of Endurance - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Meanings of Endurance - An Interdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Resilience
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This book critically analyses the concept of endurance from
different theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical
perspectives. The first part of the book takes a closer look at
endurance, by examining how it relates to concepts such as
resilience, perseverance, and perdurance. By analysing how these
concepts overlap but differ, we reach a better understanding of
what constitutes endurance. Furthermore, endurance is reconfigured
as a as a mundane aspect of everyday life. The latter part of the
book focuses on embodied experiences of endurance, more
specifically on endurance running, walking, and (physical)
performances. The different contributions focus on the meanings,
values, and attributes that people ascribe to endurance in various
socio-cultural contexts. The book uncovers practices, environments,
and discourses in which endurance is applied and manifested, from
drought-affected communities in rural Australia to professional
endurance runners in Ethiopia as well as migrants in Greece and
performance acts in domestic spaces in the United Kingdom and
beyond. This book will be of interest to scholars of movement
sciences, sports studies, mobilities, leisure studies, and
resilience studies.
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