02430oam 22006014a 450 991048097170332120170109123210.01-5261-1497-61-5261-0046-0(CKB)3710000000924496(MiAaPQ)EBC4729836(StDuBDS)EDZ0001606264(OCoLC)981859734(MdBmJHUP)muse59515(EXLCZ)99371000000092449620161128h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierImmersionMarathon swimming, embodiment and identity /Karen ThosbyManchester, [England] :Manchester University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (218 pages) illustrationsNew ethnographiesPreviously issued in print: 2016.1-5261-3961-8 0-7190-9962-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health.New ethnographies.SportsSociological aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01130532Long distance swimmingfast(OCoLC)fst01002235Belonging (Social psychology)fast(OCoLC)fst01764316Belonging (Social psychology)SportsSociological aspectsLong distance swimmingElectronic books. SportsSociological aspects.Long distance swimming.Belonging (Social psychology)Belonging (Social psychology)SportsSociological aspects.Long distance swimming.797.2/1Thosby Karen861413MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480971703321Immersion1922474UNINA