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Holly Thorpe - Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice - 9781349368129 - V9781349368129
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Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

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Description for Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice Paperback. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Series: Global Culture and Sport Series. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP; JHB; JHBS; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Series
Global Culture and Sport Series
Number of Pages
313
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349368129
SKU
V9781349368129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Holly Thorpe
HOLLY THORPE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on the topics of sociology of sport, social theory, physical youth culture, gender, and extreme sports.

Reviews for Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice
"There is no other text that explores and reveals the complex nature of snowboarding culture in such depth. It must therefore be seen as a cutting-edge offering, not just in snowboarding subculture but in embodied theorising through multi-modes of data generation and multi-disciplinary social theorising . . . This book joins the large body of excellent qualitative work in the ... Read more

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