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03075aam a2200409 i 4500 001 0E7C1E64621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170706010219 008 161207t20172017njua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016025797 020 $a 0813571960 020 $a 9780813571966 020 $a 0813571952 020 $a 9780813571959 035 $a (OCoLC)959034424 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d YDX $d BDX $d DLC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GV1068 K53 2017 100 1 $a Kidder, Jeffrey L. $q (Jeffrey Lowell), $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Parkour and the city : $b risk, masculinity, and meaning in a postmodern sport / $c Jeffrey L. Kidder. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 197 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Critical issues in sport and society 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-190) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Thinking sociologically about parkour -- Developing the discipline and creating a sport -- New prisms of the possible -- Young men in the city -- Hedging their bets -- Conclusions: Appropriating the city -- Appendix A: Brief note on data and method -- Appendix B: On the parkour terminology used in this book. 520 $a "Parkour is an emerging sport in which practitioners train themselves to move through urban environments in creative and often risky ways. Comprised of a pastiche of stylized movements and dependent on YouTube videos, parkour is quintessentially postmodern, and this book studies parkour from within its sociological context. The book traces the sport's development in Europe, parkour's growth into a worldwide phenomenon, and the meanings local Chicago practitioners have given to the sport. The book explores the dialectical relationship between practitioners' real world activities and global flows of information. It analyzes the city as a site for urban adventure seeking and situates these practices within a discussion of young men's masculine identity claims. Finally, the risk-taking commonly seen in parkour is connected to practitioners' symbolic practices that downplay the dangers of the sport while emphasizing their safety precautions. Instead of pushing the edges of survival, these young people insist they have trained themselves to be highly attuned risk assessors--individuals capable of successfully overcoming challenges of any sort. If urbanism is about the lives individuals lead in the city, parkour represents a unique postmodern interpretation of that way of life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Parkour. 650 0 $a Parkour $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Extreme sports $v Juvenile literature. 830 0 $a Critical issues in sport and society. 941 $a 4 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214045950.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021013.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20180821010352.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003032019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E7C1E64621111E7BC2B04C5DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search