Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice [electronic resource] /
Thorpe, H.author.
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half title; Series page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies; 2 Remembering the Snowboarding Body; 3 Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body; 4 Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power, and the Snowboarding Media; 5 Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style, and Symbolic Capital; 6 Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes, and Bad- Asses; 7 Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain, and Performance; 8 Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism, and Lifestyle Sport Migration
9 Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces10 Body Politics, Social Change, and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Ethnology.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Human body—Social aspects.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology of the Body.
Regional and Cultural Studies.