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Author(s): Jeffrey L. Kidder Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0813571952   Pages: 256 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 10/17/2023 6:27:37 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description 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. Parkours 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. Parkours 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 safetyrather than a pushing the edge ethos normally associated with extreme sports. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3206757 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/1D8BF0C9A83B...   0.00 alex21s Tags: City Critical Issues Masculinity Meaning Parkour Postmodern Risk Sport Sport Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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