| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Routledge critical studies in sport
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Routledge critical studies in sport.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This collection of innovative studies represents the first serious academic investigation of 'lifestyle' or 'postmodern' sports, such as snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Series editors' foreword by Jennifer Hargreaves and Ian McDonald; Acknowledgements; Introduction: mapping the lifestyle sport-scape; Commercialisation: culture, identity and change; 'Chicks dig scars': commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities; Death, danger and the selling of risk in adventure sports; Sustainable adventure: embodied experiences and ecological practices within British climbing; Surfing: from one (cultural) extreme to another; Ambivalent masculinities: identity and difference. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Extreme sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Extreme sports. |
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wheaton, Belinda, 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wheaton, Belinda, 1966- Understanding lifestyle sport. London : Routledge ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2004 0415259541 041525955X (DLC) 2004041830 (OCoLC)54206111 |
| ISBN |
9780203646069 (electronic book) |
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0203646061 (electronic book) |
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1280052996 |
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9781280052996 |
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9786610052998 |
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6610052999 |
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9780415259552 (pISBN) |
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041525955X (Paper) |
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0415259541 |
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9780415259545 |
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