The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

by Belinda Wheaton

This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports - parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others - and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the dominant meanings and experience of 'sport' and physical culture.

Drawing on a series of in-depth, empirical case-studies, the book offers a re-evaluation of theoretical frameworks with which lifestyle sports have been understood, and focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415478588
• ISBN13: 9780415478588
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"