Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: | Thosby Karen |
Titolo: | Immersion : Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity / / Karen Thosby |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, [England] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 797.2/1 |
Soggetto topico: | Sports - Sociological aspects |
Long distance swimming | |
Belonging (Social psychology) | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Aquatic sociology |
Embodiment | |
Health | |
Identity | |
Immersion | |
Marathon swimming | |
Social worlds | |
Sport | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Immersion |
ISBN: | 1-5261-1497-6 |
1-5261-0046-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798884503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |