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OverviewIn 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. Parkour's 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. Parkour's 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 safety-rather than a ""pushing the edge"" ethos normally associated with extreme sports. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey L. KidderPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9780813571959ISBN 10: 0813571952 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 April 2017 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Sociologically about Parkour 1 Developing the Discipline and Creating a Sport 2 New Prisms of the Possible 3 Young Men in the City 4 Hedging Their Bets Conclusions: Appropriating the City Appendix A: Brief Note on Data and Method Appendix B: On the Parkour Terminology Used in This Book Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsIn this fascinating book, Kidder reveals the complex ways in which parkour participants engage with risk and perform hegemonic forms of sporting masculinity.<i>Parkour and the City</i>reveals many of the paradoxes of informal lifestyle sporting activities and the ways they resonate with postmodern culture. --Belinda Wheaton School of Human Development and Movement Studies, University of Waikato ? Combining lucid prose and informed by critical scholarship, Kidder elucidates the meanings and cultures of a twenty-first century sport from the streets of the megacity to the hand-held social media device. Timely and sound, <i>Parkour and the City</i>has much to offer to the community.? ?--Dr. Paul Gilchrist University of Brighton In this fascinating book, Kidder reveals the complex ways in which parkour participants engage with risk and perform hegemonic forms of sporting masculinity. <i>Parkour and the City</i> reveals many of the paradoxes of informal lifestyle sporting activities and the ways they resonate with postmodern culture. --Belinda Wheaton School of Human Development and Movement Studies, University of Waikato Kidder walks the reader through his conclusions and makes compelling arguments, and overall, the book is well written and clearly organized. The most interesting chapter discusses traceurs' hedgework, rituals of risk, and symbolic practices of safety. It is easily accessible for readers who want to learn more about the sport of parkour. In reading Kidder's book, one is instantly inserted into a parkour jam but with a sociological lens. --Gender & Society Kidder's descriptive and engaging text touches deftly on a number of timely and relevant areas of interest for scholars in many fields and many places. --International Review for the Sociology of Sport The book is well written, and I recommend it to all scholars and students who are interested in lifestyle sport, urban sociology or to those who are looking for a good example of how sport (as well as all human activity) is significant beyond itself. --idrottsforum.org ? Combining lucid prose and informed by critical scholarship, Kidder elucidates the meanings and cultures of a twenty-first century sport from the streets of the megacity to the hand-held social media device. Timely and sound, Parkour and the City has much to offer to the community.? ?--Paul Gilchrist coeditor of The Politics of Sport In this fascinating book, Kidder reveals the complex ways in which parkour participants engage with risk and perform hegemonic forms of sporting masculinity. Parkour and the City reveals many of the paradoxes of informal lifestyle sporting activities and the ways they resonate with postmodern culture. --Belinda Wheaton School of Human Development and Movement Studies, University of Waikato Author InformationJEFFREY L. KIDDER is an associate professor of sociology at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. He is the author of Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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