Mark Stranger

Surfing Life

Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime

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Produktbeschreibung

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the nature of the self and social formations in contemporary society. Making use of extensive empirical material to support innovative theoretical approaches to social change, this book offers an analysis of the relationship between embodied experience, culture and the economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780754674436
• ISBN-10: 0754674436
• Artikelnr.: 41241251

Autorenporträt

Mark Stranger has taught Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: This study of surfing
Pleasure and discipline: a surfing history
Resistance and incorporation: contemporary surfing life
Risk, self and social configurations
Fear, desire and a postmodern sublime
Commodification, reflexivity and trust: the surfing culture industry
Aestheticization and sportization: towards synthesis
Conclusions
Appendices
References
Index.