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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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