Description: Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City by Thomas Raymen This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the paradox of parkour against a backdrop of late-capitalism. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 capitalisms commodification of rebellious iconography offered unique identities of cool individualism and opportunities for flexibilised employment; while the post-industrial creative city attempted to harness parkours 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. Author Biography Thomas Raymen is Lecturer in Criminology at Plymouth University, UK. He is the co-founder of the Deviant Leisure Research Network and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics including commodified leisure and social harm, crime control and urban space, and violence, consumerism and violent media. His research interests span the fields of criminology, leisure studies, moral philosophy, and cultural geography. Table of Contents Chapter 1. The Paradox of Parkour Chapter 2. Moving with the Times: Parkour, Leisure and Social Change Chapter 3. Ultra-Realism, Parkour and Capitalist Ideology Chapter 4. Movers and Shakers Chapter 5. Zombie Cities Chapter 6. The Parkour City Chapter 7. Sorry Lads (But Ive got to move you on) Chapter 8. Conclusion and Futures Review Drawing on two years of participatory ethnography in the parkour scene in Newcastle, England, with members of the local parkour community and its associated professional coaching company, the author considers why parkour is excluded from urban space despite its hyper-conformity to the central values of consumer capitalism and its increasing celebration in mainstream media, advertising, and sport and lifestyle markets. He argues that this paradox is a product of late-capitalism and is a key component of capitalisms ideology and a key element in parkours popularity, in which it appears that participants are fighting back against the system. He describes a broad theory of the changing nature of leisure and identity in late-capitalism; existing criminological and sociological theorizations of parkour and other forms of spatial transgression and their assumptions about human nature, subjectivity, and the relationship between structure and agency; the role of parkour within the pressures and realities of participants lived experiences of consumer capitalism, particularly parkour as work and leisure; the issues of space and control and how cities attempt to create a veneer of life and the social in the dead-zone of contemporary public space, "zombifying" an urban ambience of living-dead; parkours embodied practice and how participants move throughout urban space; and how parkour is policed and controlled by private security teams. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *[The book offers] an effective corrective to both the academic and popular perceptions ofparkour on one hand, and a powerful critique of contemporary late-capitalist society that goes farbeyond the subject matter of parkour, on the other. The argument is well-crafted andconvincing, the ethnography woven smoothly together with theory, while always keepingin mind the bigger picture, thus becoming far more than a mere ethnography ofparkour. The book can be recommended as essential reading to scholars, students, andanyone interested in criminology, sociology and anthropology and for that mattercontemporary consumer society – it makes for a good and important read. -- Tereza Kuldova Review Quote [The book offers] an effective corrective to both the academic and popular perceptions ofparkour on one hand, and a powerful critique of contemporary late-capitalist society that goes farbeyond the subject matter of parkour, on the other. The argument is well-crafted andconvincing, the ethnography woven smoothly together with theory, while always keepingin mind the bigger picture, thus becoming far more than a mere ethnography ofparkour. The book can be recommended as essential reading to scholars, students, andanyone interested in criminology, sociology and anthropology and for that mattercontemporary consumer society - it makes for a good and important read. Details ISBN1787438120 Author Thomas Raymen Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited Series Emerald Studies in Deviant Leisure Year 2018 ISBN-10 1787438120 ISBN-13 9781787438125 Format Hardcover Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited Subtitle An Ethnography Place of Publication Bingley Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2018-12-05 DEWEY 796.046 Pages 192 Short Title Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City Language English AU Release Date 2018-12-05 NZ Release Date 2018-12-05 UK Release Date 2018-12-05 Alternative 9781787438118 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781787438125
Book Title: Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: an Ethnography
Language: English
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Item Height: 229 mm
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 381 g
Subject Area: Sociology of Sport
Author: Thomas Raymen
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
