Karen Throsby

Immersion

Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 -- .

Produktdetails

• New Ethnographies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781526139610
• ISBN-10: 1526139618
• Artikelnr.: 54012209

Autorenporträt

Karen Throsby is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Becoming and belonging 1. Becoming 2. Unexpected
pleasures 3. Authentic swimming 4. Making it count Part II: The good body
5. Who are you swimming for? 6. Gendering swimming 7. Heroic fatness 8.
Failing bodies Conclusion