Description: Parkour and the City : Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport, Paperback by Kidder, Jeffrey L., ISBN 0813571952, ISBN-13 9780813571959, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Parkour and the City : Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Topic: Sports & Recreation / Extreme Sports, Extreme Sports, Running & Jogging, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jeffrey L. Kidder
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
