Taking us on an ethnographic journey into the spatially transgressive
practice of parkour and freerunning, Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in
the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography attempts to explain and
untangle some of the contradictions that surround this popular
lifestyle sport and its exclusion from our hyper-regulated cities.
While the existing criminological wisdom suggests that these practices
are a form of politicised resistance, this book positions parkour and
freerunning as hyper-conformist to the underlying values of consumer
capitalism and explains how late-capitalism has created a
contradiction for itself in which it must stoke desire for these
lifestyle practices whilst also excluding their free practice from
central urban spaces. Drawing on the emergent deviant leisure
perspective, this book takes us into the life-worlds of young people
who are attempting to navigate the challenges and anxieties of early
adulthood. For the young people in this study, consumer capitalism's
commodification of rebellious iconography offered unique identities of
'cool individualism' and opportunities for flexibilised employment;
while the post-industrial 'creative city' attempted to harness
parkour's practice, prohibitively if necessary, into approved spatial
contexts under the buzzwords of 'culture' and 'creativity'. This
book offers a vital contribution to the criminological literature on
spatial transgression, and in doing so, engages in a critical
reappraisal of the evolution of the relationships between work,
leisure, identity and urban space in consumer capitalism.
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An Ethnography
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781787439863
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Emerald Publishing Limited
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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