Surfing and Social Theory
Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 17 October 2005
- ISBN 9780415334334
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 220 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Halftones, black & white; 3 Line drawings, black & white; 16 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural meaning of surfing, exploring mind and body, emotions, and aesthetics.
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Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon ? an ?alternative? sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants. Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this book is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural meaning of surfing.
Core themes of mind and body, emotions and identity, aesthetics, style, and sensory experience are explored through a variety of topics, and particular attention is paid to:
* evolving perceptions of the sea and the beach
* the globalization of surfing
* surfing as a subculture and lifestyle
* the embodiment and gendering of surfing.
Surfing and Social Theory is an original and theoretically rigorous text that sets the agenda for future work in this area. Along with the Surf Science courses now appearing in universities around the world, this text provides students and researchers in sport, sociology, culture and geography with a new perspective and a thought-provoking text.
"Surfing and Social Theory far exceeds Nick Ford and David Brown?s modest goal of contributing to the burgeoning area of surfing studies. This text will define the subject for a very long time. Sport sociologists should also look at the book as a potential template for analyzing individual sports as complex multidimensional and embodied phenomena, and even as an embryonic model for a fresh theoretical synthesis of the field. In this regard Surfing and Social Theory is replete with intriguing suggestions and ideas." ? Douglas Booth, Sociology of Sport Journal.
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CONTENTS
Illustrations
Preface
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE ENCHANTED SEA: THE EVOLVING PERCEPTIONS
OF THE SEA, COASTSCAPE AND BEACH
3 THE NARRATIVE HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION OF SURFING
4 SURFING AS SUBCULTURE AND LIFESTYLE
5 GENDERING THE WAVES: SURFING IN THE GENDER ORDER AND THE
GENDER ORDER ON SURFING
6 SURFING AND SURFED BODIES: THE EMBODIMENT OF SURFING
7 THE EXPERIENCE OF SURFING
8 CONCLUSION AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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