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Parkour and the City

- Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Af: Jeffrey L. Kidder Engelsk Paperback

Parkour and the City

- Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Af: Jeffrey L. Kidder Engelsk Paperback
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In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.
 
Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a “daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge” ethos normally associated with extreme sports.  
 
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In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger.
 
Parkour’s modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour’s dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as “traceurs” or “freerunners”) reject a “daredevil” label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety—rather than a “pushing the edge” ethos normally associated with extreme sports.  
 
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813571959
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0813571952
Kategori: Bysamfund
Udg. Dato: 20 apr 2017
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 155mm
Forlag: Rutgers University Press
Oplagsdato: 20 apr 2017
Forfatter(e): Jeffrey L. Kidder
Forfatter(e) Jeffrey L. Kidder

Kategori Bysamfund

ISBN-13 9780813571959

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 155mm

Udg. Dato 20 apr 2017

Oplagsdato 20 apr 2017

Forlag Rutgers University Press

Kategori sammenhænge