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Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization,
and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers
the social, political, economic and organizational dynamics of
their professionalization. After sketching some of the main
transformations at stake in the field, the contributors provide
novel insights into the changing structures in the action sports
industry and the effects on athletes, coaches, agents and the
cultures more broadly. Such trends came to the fore in the
inclusion of surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing and BMX
freestyle into the Tokyo Olympic Games. The book explores the
working lives of action sports athletes, more specifically when it
comes to their social media practices and the commercial pressure
emerging from sponsors, and it also provides key insights into the
institutionalization and professionalization of action sports amid
ongoing processes of globalization, commodification and
incorporation. Overall, the book reveals how different action
sports (i.e., snowboarding, surfing, kiteboarding, parkour,
climbing, skateboarding), and across countries, are at various
stages in the professionalization process, with local, national and
international responses and reactions to such trends differing
considerably. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Both authors are considered international experts in this field
Their research includes access to inner workings of the IOC and
TOCOG It will be the first book to consider the relationship
between action sports and the Olympic movement
This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to
the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture
and the COVID-19 global pandemic. By examining the generative
complexities that simultaneously link and shape sport/physical
culture and COVID, the book develops a collection of multi-faceted
readings. The anthology is framed by an ontological understanding
prefigured on relationality, liminality, and perpetual becoming.
The contributions theoretically, methodologically and
representationally explore COVID-sport assemblages as a dynamic and
diverse "ad hoc grouping"of interpenetrating affecting elements,
encompassing material and expressive forms, human and non-human,
animate and inanimate matter. The book will be of interest to
advanced undergraduate and students and scholars of kinesiology,
sociology of sport, critical studies of the body, physical
education, sport and social issues, public health, physical
cultural studies, sociology, foreign policy studies, and
international studies.
This book offers the first critical examination of the
contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of
sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new
materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it
highlights the possibilities and challenges of engaging with
posthumanist and new materialist theories. With empirical examples
and pedagogical offerings woven throughout, the book makes complex
new materialist concepts and theories highly accessible. It vividly
illustrates sporting matter as lively, vital, and agentic. Engaging
specifically with the methodological, theoretical, ethical and
political challenges of feminist new materialisms, it elaborates
understandings of moving bodies and their entanglements with human,
non-human, technological, biological, cultural, and environmental
forces in contemporary society. This book extends humanist,
representationalist, and discursive approaches that have
characterized the landscape of critical research on active bodies,
and invites new imaginings and articulations for sport and moving
bodies in uncertain times and unknown futures. View the video
abstracts for each of the book's chapter here: Chapter 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQy7aq1k20&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=1
Chapter 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM-Q4FmW6h8&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=2
Chapter 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VxosyyrKg&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=3
Chapter 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN9b58fPISA&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=4
Chapter 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3Ss_Tz0ZY&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=5
Chapter 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNbSBThlR6s&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=6
Chapter 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRAGwH8UOY&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=7
Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet
women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these
unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many
traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive
approaches and developed unique strategies to negotiate space
alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and
cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well
as around rinks. This international collection features
contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers,
many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves.
With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary
perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance
studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this
book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports
cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the
book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and
ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures,
as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics
being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The
book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of
sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth
cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education.
This book offers the first critical examination of the
contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of
sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new
materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it
highlights the possibilities and challenges of engaging with
posthumanist and new materialist theories. With empirical examples
and pedagogical offerings woven throughout, the book makes complex
new materialist concepts and theories highly accessible. It vividly
illustrates sporting matter as lively, vital, and agentic. Engaging
specifically with the methodological, theoretical, ethical and
political challenges of feminist new materialisms, it elaborates
understandings of moving bodies and their entanglements with human,
non-human, technological, biological, cultural, and environmental
forces in contemporary society. This book extends humanist,
representationalist, and discursive approaches that have
characterized the landscape of critical research on active bodies,
and invites new imaginings and articulations for sport and moving
bodies in uncertain times and unknown futures. View the video
abstracts for each of the book's chapter here: Chapter 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQy7aq1k20&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=1
Chapter 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM-Q4FmW6h8&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=2
Chapter 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VxosyyrKg&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=3
Chapter 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN9b58fPISA&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=4
Chapter 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3Ss_Tz0ZY&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=5
Chapter 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNbSBThlR6s&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=6
Chapter 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRAGwH8UOY&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=7
This edited collection critically explores new and emerging models
of female athleticism in an era characterised as postfeminist. It
approaches postfeminism through a critical lens to investigate new
forms of politics being practised by women in physical activity,
sport and online spaces at the intersections of gender, ethnicity,
sexuality and ability. New Sporting Femininities features chapters
on celebrity athletes such as Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey,
alongside studies of the online fitspo movement and women's growing
participation in activities like roller derby, skateboarding and
football. In doing so, it highlights key issues and concerns facing
diverse groups of women in a rapidly changing gender-sport
landscape. This collection sheds new light on the complex and often
contradictory ways that women's athletic participation is promoted,
experienced and embodied in the context of postfeminism, commodity
feminism and emerging forms of popular feminism.
This edited collection critically explores new and emerging models
of female athleticism in an era characterised as postfeminist. It
approaches postfeminism through a critical lens to investigate new
forms of politics being practised by women in physical activity,
sport and online spaces at the intersections of gender, ethnicity,
sexuality and ability. New Sporting Femininities features chapters
on celebrity athletes such as Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey,
alongside studies of the online fitspo movement and women's growing
participation in activities like roller derby, skateboarding and
football. In doing so, it highlights key issues and concerns facing
diverse groups of women in a rapidly changing gender-sport
landscape. This collection sheds new light on the complex and often
contradictory ways that women's athletic participation is promoted,
experienced and embodied in the context of postfeminism, commodity
feminism and emerging forms of popular feminism.
Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing
field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account
of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and
methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries,
preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on
transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies,
sociology, history, cultural studies, performance studies and
anthropology. Featuring chapters written by world-leading scholars,
this handbook examines the most important themes and issues within
PCS, exploring the active body through the lens of class, age,
gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability, medicine,
religion, space and culture. Each chapter provides an overview of
the state of knowledge in a particular subject area, while also
considering possibilities for developing future research.
Representing a landmark contribution to physical cultural studies
and allied fields, the Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural
Studies is an essential text for any undergraduate or postgraduate
course on physical culture, sports studies, leisure studies, the
sociology of sport, the body, or sport and social theory.
Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing
field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account
of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and
methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries,
preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on
transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies,
sociology, history, cultural studies, performance studies and
anthropology. Featuring chapters written by world-leading scholars,
this handbook examines the most important themes and issues within
PCS, exploring the active body through the lens of class, age,
gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability, medicine,
religion, space and culture. Each chapter provides an overview of
the state of knowledge in a particular subject area, while also
considering possibilities for developing future research.
Representing a landmark contribution to physical cultural studies
and allied fields, the Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural
Studies is an essential text for any undergraduate or postgraduate
course on physical culture, sports studies, leisure studies, the
sociology of sport, the body, or sport and social theory.
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge
Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In a
context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving
the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever
before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations
and Future Trajectories brings together an exploration of sport
feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for
Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts. Including
postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon
fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan,
Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals
the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they
operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and
participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the
(dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts,
this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is
transpiring in the transnational sport, gender and development
field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community
context and local iterations. Taking up emerging and contemporary
feminist issues in sport related international development, this
book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments
in sport, gender and development.
Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet
women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these
unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many
traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive
approaches and developed unique strategies to negotiate space
alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and
cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well
as around rinks. This international collection features
contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers,
many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves.
With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary
perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance
studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this
book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports
cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the
book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and
ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures,
as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics
being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The
book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of
sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth
cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education.
The moving body-pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense
training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and
high-profile sporting mega-events-holds a vital function in
contemporary society. As the body moves-as it performs, sweats,
runs, and jumps-it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific
rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and
identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social class,
etc.). It represents vitality in its productive and physiological
capacities, it drives a complex economy of experiences and
products, and it is a meaningful site of cultural identities and
politics. Contributors to Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving
Body work from a simple premise: as it moves, the material body
matters. Adding to the burgeoning fields of sport studies and body
studies, the works featured here draw upon the traditions of
feminist theory, posthumanism, actor network theory, and new
materialism to reposition the physical, moving body as crucial to
the cultural, political, environmental, and economic systems that
it constitutes and within which is constituted. Once assembled, the
book presents a study of bodies in motion-made to move in contexts
where technique, performance, speed, strength, and vitality not
only define the conduct therein, but provide the very reason for
the body's being within those economies and environments. In so
doing, the contributors look to how the body moving for and about
rational systems of science, medicine, markets, and geopolity
shapes the social and material world in important and unexpected
ways. In Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body, contributors
explore the extent to which the body, when moving about both
ostensibly active body spaces (i.e., the gymnasium, the ball field,
exercise laboratory, the track or running trail, the beach, or the
sport stadium) and those places less often connected to physical
activity (i.e. the home, the street, the classroom, the
automobile), is bounded to technologies of life and living; and to
the political arrangements that seek to capitalize upon such frames
of biological vitality. To do so, the authors problematize the rise
of active body science (i.e. kinesiology, sport and exercise
sciences, performance biotechnology) and the effects these
scientific interventions have on embodied, lived experience.
Contributors to Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body will
be engaging a range of new and emerging theoretical perspectives,
including new materialist, political ecology, developmental systems
theory, and new material feminist approaches, to examine the actors
and assemblages of movement-based material, political, and economic
production. In so doing, contributors will vividly and powerfully
illustrate the extent to which a focus on the fleshed body and its
material conditions can bring forth new insights or ontological and
epistemological innovation to the sociology of sport and physical
activity. They will also explore the agency of the body as and
amongst things. Such a performative materialist approach explicates
how complex assemblages of sport and physical activity-bringing
into association everything from muscle fibers and dietary proteins
to stadium concrete or regional aquifers-are not only meaningful,
but ecological. By focusing on the confluence of agentive
materialities, disciplinary technologies, vibrant assemblages,
speculative realities, and vital performativities, Sport, Physical
Culture, and the Moving Body promises to offer a groundbreaking
departure from representationalist tendencies and orthodoxies
brought about by the cultural turn in sport and physical cultural
studies. It brings the moving body and its physics back into focus:
recentering moving flesh and bones as locus of social order,
environmental change, and the global political economy.
Over the last decade extreme has become a popular adjective to
describe a range of physical pursuits and activities such as bungee
jumping, dirt biking, skysurfing and street luge. Yet,
notwithstanding its widespread usage, extreme remains largely a
connotative term to differentiate individualistic, adventure-type
sports with high aesthetic components from more functional and
traditional team sports such as baseball, basketball, cricket,
football and hockey. However, as well as its physical
characteristics extreme also connotes an ideological dimension that
refers to a range of anti-social attitudes, many of which are
embodied and stand in sharp contrast to conservative, mainstream
middle-class sporting values. Indeed, the ideology of extreme
attracts as much attention among scholars interested in the study
of sport as the physical elements. The Encyclopedia of Extreme
Sports offers a comprehensive dissection of this new and emerging
phenomenon, and its characteristics, philosophy, ideology,
functions, history and future. component-risk-from a number of
disciplinary perspectives including history, sociology, psychology,
theology and physiology. In examining the history of individual
extreme sports, the Encyclopedia explores ancient, feudal and
cross-cultural forms while also looking at the appeal of modern
extreme activities to entrepreneurs, marketers, advertisers and the
media as they seek to connect with consumers in the critical
13-34-age cohort. The commercialization of extreme sports as well
as their institutionalization-formation of governing bodies, grand
prix circuits, and inclusion in traditional mega-events such as the
Olympic Games-highlights another critical dimension addressed by
the Encyclopedia, their contradictory and paradoxical nature. As
numerous commentators have observed, participants in extreme sports
are typically no less racist, sexist and class and status conscious
than their brothers and sisters participating in mainstream sports.
cross-cultural and historical extreme sports; thematic essays;
biographies of leading extreme exponents; descriptions of the best
known extreme playgrounds.
This book provides a comprehensive look at the snowboarding
phenomenon, including its history; techniques and equipment;
biographies of the sport's pioneers, athletes, and heroes; key
sites and events; and future directions. While snowboarding didn't
become a commercial success until the early 1980s, the roots of the
modern snowboard go back to at least 1964, when Sherman Poppen
invented the "Snurfer" by bolting two skis together and adding a
rope for stability. Today snowboarding is one of the most prominent
and appealing youth sports. Want proof? Professional snowboarder
and two-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White was the highest paid
athlete entering the 2010 Winter Olympics with an estimated annual
salary of $10 million. The book is a highly accessible and
extensive overview of snowboarding, providing an introduction to
the sport and lifestyle of snowboarding; a historical timeline of
the rapid growth of snowboarding; techniques and equipment used;
and a discussion of key places and events, such as Alaska, Winter X
Games, and the Winter Olympics. Draws on interviews with more than
100 snowboarders Provides a chronology of snowboarding, starting
from the mid 1960s to the present Includes biographical sketches of
pioneers, athletes, and heroes, such as Jake Burton, Shaun White,
and Craig Kelly Includes numerous photographs illustrating
snowboarding in different sites, key events, and various styles of
participation A bibliography lists the most useful, reliable, and
accessible resources for understanding the topic, including videos
and organizational listings A glossary defines key terms Each
chapter includes interesting sidebars on related issues,
controversies, people, events, and even pop culture tie-ins
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