Lifestyle sports and identities : subcultural careers through the life course
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Lifestyle sports and identities : subcultural careers through the life course
(Routledge research in sport, culture and society)
Routledge, 2022
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Tracing engagement with lifestyle sport across the lifecourse, from young adult to older age, the book examines the concepts of authenticity and identity in subcultural and alternative sports, exploring how individuals develop lifestyle sport identities, maintain authentic identities, and how they manage those identities as older adults. It presents a range of fascinating, cutting-edge case studies from around the world, covering sports as diverse as climbing, surfing, mountain biking, skateboarding and roller derby, and considers key contemporary issues such as professionalisation, sports labor, and digital technology. It also highlights political tensions and shifts that shape the identities of lifestyle sport communities.
This is essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in alternative or lifestyle sports, the relationships between sport and wider society, or the development of subcultures and cultural identity.
Table of Contents
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.
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