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Parkour and the City : Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport / Jeffrey L. Kidder.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Issues in Sport and SocietyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 27 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813571966
  • 9780813571980
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.42/5 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1068 .K53 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Thinking Sociologically about Parkour -- 1. Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport -- 2. New Prisms of the Possible -- 3. Young Men in the City -- 4. Hedging Their Bets -- Conclusion. Appropriating the City -- Appendix A. Brief Note on Data and Method -- Appendix B. On the Parkour Terminology Used i n This Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Thinking Sociologically about Parkour -- 1. Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport -- 2. New Prisms of the Possible -- 3. Young Men in the City -- 4. Hedging Their Bets -- Conclusion. Appropriating the City -- Appendix A. Brief Note on Data and Method -- Appendix B. On the Parkour Terminology Used i n This Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)