Lifestyle Sports and Identities (eBook, PDF)

Subcultural Careers Through the Life Course
Redaktion: Dupont, Tyler; Beal, Becky

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how different stages of adult life affect participation in lifestyle sports and in the construction of identity. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, it explores how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and location, in conjunction with age and stage in career, affect lifestyle sport practices and meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000423501
• Artikelnr.: 62520106

Autorenporträt

Tyler Dupont is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Oneonta, USA. Becky Beal is Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1. Entering a Career and Forging a Place in the Activity
During Midlife. 1. Becoming a Mountain Biker. 2. The Construction of Place
Identity via "Shua jie" in Public Spaces of Guangzhou, China. 3. The
Objectification of Self in Material Culture: Identity Anchors in Jeep
Culture. 4. Gender and Climbing Style: "Dynos" and "Heel Hooks" in the Gym.
5. Maneuvering Microaggressions and Contesting Cultural Beliefs: An
Intersectional Examination of Mexican American Surfers Experiences in
Southern California Surf Culture. 6. Constructing Queer-Skater Identities:
Failure and Futurity. Part 2. Maintaining a Career During Midlife. 7.
Identity and Wellbeing in Older Skateboarders. 8. The Working Lives of
Professional Rock Climbers: An Ethnographic Exploration of Multilayered
Labor. 9. Big Wave Surfing: Fun, Group Cohesion, and Group Identity. 10.
BMX in China: Subculture Identity, Family, Career. 11. BMX Freestyle
Cycling and Identity. Part 3: Negotiating Careers as Older Adults. 12.
Ageing and Nature-based Sport: Sensing, Experiencing and Becoming. 13.
Seniors, Lifestyle, and Hobbyist Sport. 14. Lifestyle Sport Identity and
National Identity: Thoughts on the Chinese Government's (re)Creation of
Dama Image. 15. Gra(c)(t)efully Ageing in Late Capitalist Sport: Coping
with the Inevitable in Action Pursuits. Part 4. Shifts in the Fields. 16.
Conventional Culture, Subcultural Institutions and Subcultural Careers as
Backdrops to Identity Work in Singapore's Esports Scene. 17. Skateboarding
in the Iron Cage: An Exploratory Examination of Professional Skate
Identities in Street League Skateboarding. 18. From Spectacle to Sport:
Shifting Authenticity within Modern Roller Derby. 19. Transforming Gender
Identity through Breaking. 20. Understanding Race in Skateboarding: A
Retrospection and Agenda for the Importance of Being Seen.