Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity

by Karen Throsby Dr and Karen Throsby

Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719099625
• ISBN13: 9780719099625
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"