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Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City : an Ethnography / Thomas Raymen

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Raymen, Thomas
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Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
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Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The 'Paradox' of Parkour; Methodological Note: 'Choosing' Ethnography; The Research Environment: From Coal to Culture; Chapter Outline; Chapter 2: Moving with the Times: Parkour, Leisure and Social Change; Things Are Not as They Seem ... ; Fordism to Post-Fordism; 'The Enlightened Few': Parkour, Leisure and Narcissistic Individualism; Therapeutic Leisure: Being Well in Troubled Times; Summing Up; Chapter 3: Ultra-realism, Parkour and Capitalist Ideology; Transcendental Materialism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Re-thinking Parkour as 'Resistance'Parkour and Precorporation; Winding-up; Chapter 4: Movers and Shakers; Road to Nowhere? Youth Transitions, Work and Leisure; 4.2 Parkour Biographies; Life-stage Dissolution and Commodified Lifestyle Sports; Prosumption and Parkour; Chapter 5: Zombie Cities; The Function of Space in a 'Symbolic Economy'; Make Newcastle Creative Again!; Beyond the Revanchist City; Chapter 6: The Parkour City; Embodied Spatial Practice and Non-representational Theory; Parkour and the 'Passion for the Real'; Bastardising the Real, Controlling the Semblance, and A Parkour Guide to the CityChapter 7: 'Sorry Lads (But I've Got to Move You on)'; Post-politics in the City; 'Everyone Thinks It's Great when It's in an Advert'; 'Excluded' from What?; Chapter 8: Conclusion and Futures; Epilogue; References; Index
Summary
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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9781787438118 (electronic bk.)
1787438112 (electronic bk.)
9781787439863 (ePub ebook)
1787439860
9781787438125
1787438120
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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