Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice
eBook - PDF

Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

About this book

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.

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Information

eBook ISBN
9780230305571
Subtopic
Anthropology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies
  11. 2 Remembering the Snowboarding Body
  12. 3 Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body
  13. 4 Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power, and the Snowboarding Media
  14. 5 Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style, and Symbolic Capital
  15. 6 Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes, and Bad- Asses
  16. 7 Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain, and Performance
  17. 8 Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism, and Lifestyle Sport Migration
  18. 9 Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces
  19. 10 Body Politics, Social Change, and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index