02736oam 22007214a 450 991079888450332120221202234958.01-5261-1497-61-5261-0046-010.7765/9781526100467(CKB)3710000000924496(MiAaPQ)EBC4729836(StDuBDS)EDZ0001606264(OCoLC)981859734(MdBmJHUP)muse59515(DE-B1597)659128(DE-B1597)9781526100467(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 swimmingAquatic sociology.Embodiment.Health.Identity.Immersion.Marathon swimming.Social worlds.Sport.SportsSociological aspects.Long distance swimming.Belonging (Social psychology)Belonging (Social psychology)SportsSociological aspects.Long distance swimming.797.2/1Thosby Karen1542010MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910798884503321Immersion3794442UNINA