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This book examines how different stages of adult life affect
participation in lifestyle sports and in the construction of
identity. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, it explores
how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and location, in conjunction with
age and stage in career, affect lifestyle sport practices and
meanings. Tracing engagement with lifestyle sport across the
lifecourse, from young adult to older age, the book examines the
concepts of authenticity and identity in subcultural and
alternative sports, exploring how individuals develop lifestyle
sport identities, maintain authentic identities, and how they
manage those identities as older adults. It presents a range of
fascinating, cutting-edge case studies from around the world,
covering sports as diverse as climbing, surfing, mountain biking,
skateboarding and roller derby, and considers key contemporary
issues such as professionalisation, sports labor, and digital
technology. It also highlights political tensions and shifts that
shape the identities of lifestyle sport communities. This is
essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in
alternative or lifestyle sports, the relationships between sport
and wider society, or the development of subcultures and cultural
identity.
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Skater Girls (Hardcover)
Jenny Sampson; Foreword by Becky Beal; Contributions by Cindy Whitehead
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R822
Discovery Miles 8 220
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Jenny Sampson’s follow-up to her acclaimed collection of tintype
skateboarder portraits (Skaters, Daylight 2017) focuses on female
skateboarders. Although historically a male-dominated sport, there
have always been girls in the skate- boarding landscape. By turning
her lens on these members of the community all over California,
Washington and Oregon, Sampson hopes to increase visibility and
honor these girls, young and older, who have been breaking down
this gender wall with their skater girl power.
This engaging, comprehensive textbook for sociology of sport
courses takes a critical approach, focusing in particular on issues
of power and inequality. By addressing questions such as "Are
sports free of racism and sexism?" and "Who pays for, and who
benefits from, sports?", students understand sport from a
sociological perspective rather than as simply a spectator or
participant.
Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on
track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way
for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family
skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving
Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person
interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of
youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market
forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent
treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern
families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this
unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private
corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments,
and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to
energize skate parks-like soccer fields before them-as platforms
for community engagement and the creation of social and economic
capital.
Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on
track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way
for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family
skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving
Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person
interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of
youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market
forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent
treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern
families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this
unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private
corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments,
and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to
energize skate parks-like soccer fields before them-as platforms
for community engagement and the creation of social and economic
capital.
From skateboarding's distant origins in the 1940s to the heyday of
the Z-Boys to Tony Hawk's lifelong and lucrative career as a
professional skateboarding icon, this book showcases what
skateboarding was in the past and what it's now evolved into. In
the last half century, skateboarding has evolved from a simple,
idyllic child's pastime that originated in southern California to
becoming a worldwide youth culture phenomenon. This now-mainstream
action sport has spawned a multi-billion-dollar commercial market
for skateboarding equipment, skateboard-related media and
entertainment, as well as skate-inspired softgoods like clothing,
shoes, and accessories; and it is likely to soon become an Olympic
sport. Skateboarding: The Ultimate Guide is brimming with
fascinating history and engaging stories from skateboarding's
60-odd year existence and evolution. Covering the action sport's
origins, myriad breakthrough developments, pioneering heroes, both
"street style" and "vert" or ramp skating, unique popular culture,
and likely future, this book will delight anyone with an interest
in this individualistic and compelling athletic pursuit.
Bibliography includes primary and secondary sources and current
websites Glossary provides a comprehensive list of skating "lingo"
Index contains a comprehensive listing of names, companies, places,
and terms
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