Mountain Biking, Culture and Society (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cherrington, Jim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents the first critical examination of the social, cultural, and political significance of mountain biking in contemporary societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003845911
• Artikelnr.: 69615047

Autorenporträt

Jim Cherrington is Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity, Sport, and Health at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research explores how identity, bodies, knowledges, and objects are materialised in/through everyday life, with much of his recent work dedicated to investigating the socio-historical, socio-technical, and onto-political conditions of mountain biking.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: mountain bike culture as a 'structure of feeling'
JIM CHERRINGTON
PART I
Mountain biking identities
1 Exploring mountain bike coaches' perceptions towards learning to coach
through story completion: coaching happily ever after?
THOMAS M. LEEDER AND LEE C. BEAUMONT
2 Evaluating competitiveness as a personality trait among a sample of
mountain bikers
KIEREN MCEWAN, NEIL WESTON, AND PAUL GORCZYNSKI
3 The motivations, identities, and environmental sensibilities of
contemporary e-mountain bike users: the people behind the power
LESLEY INGRAM-SILLS
PART II
Mountain biking bodies
4 A sociology of how things go wrong in mountain biking: falling into place
MIKE LLOYD
5 An exploration into the sensory experience of pain in mountain biking
BENJAMIN MORELAND
6 Encounters with mountain bike trail centre spaces: experience landscapes
DAVID GIBBS AND LEWIS HOLLOWAY
PART III
Mountain biking environments
7 Downhill MTB, digital media, and DIY urbanism: riding with Red Bull
JACOB J. BUSTAD AND OLIVER J. C. RICK
8 Sustainable mountain bike trails: towards a holistic approach
TOM CAMPBELL
9 No dig, no ride: repairing and caring for DIY-designed mountain bike and
BMX trails
LIAM HEALY
10 Air pollution as 'slow violence' during multi-day mountain bike trips
CLARE NATTRESS
PART IV
The cultural politics of mountain biking
11 Women and barriers to participation in mountain biking: the impossible
climb
LOUISE BORDELON
12 Hegemonic masculinity and sexualisation in mountain bike trail naming
practices: what's in a name?
BENJAMIN MORELAND, ALICE LEMKES, JENNI MYERS, AND JACK REED
13 Portrayals of ideals of authenticity in mountain biking multimedia:
escaping to find yourself
JEFF R. WARREN AND JOHN REID-HRESKO
14 Reflections on trails, mountain biking, and indigenous-settler relations
in British Columbia: ride, (re)connect, and (re)build
TAVIS SMITH, PATRICK LUCAS, TOM EUSTACHE, AND THOMAS SCHOEN