Endurance Running - A Socio-Cultural Examination (Hardcover)

Running is a fundamental human activity and holds an important place in popular culture. In recent decades it has exploded in popularity as a leisure pursuit, with marathons and endurance challenges exerting a strong fascination. Endurance Running is the first collection of original qualitative research to examine distance running through a socio-cultural lens, with a general objective of understanding the concept and meaning of endurance historically and in contemporary times. Adopting diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to explore topics such as historical conceptualizations of endurance, lived experiences of endurance running, and the meaning of endurance in individual lives, the book reveals how the biological, historical, psychological, and sociological converge to form contextually specific ideas about endurance running and runners. Endurance Running is an essential book for anybody researching across the entire spectrum of endurance sports and fascinating reading for anybody working in the sociology of sport or the body, cultural studies or behavioural science.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	William Bridel • Jim Denison • Pirkko Markula
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-81042-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Track & field sports, athletics > General
LSN:	1-138-81042-8
Barcode:	9781138810426

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