Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: H. Thorpe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.615kg
ISBN: 9780230579446
ISBN 10: 0230579442
Pages: 313
Publication Date: 29 March 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'In Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice, Holly Thorpe brings social theory to life through a series of articulate and provocative insights into a snowboarding culture which has developed from a marginal activity into an Olympic sport with mass appeal in less than four decades. The result is a brilliant set of descriptions and analyses which provide an unsurpassed portrayal of snowboarding bodies in popular culture and a unique contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the body and embodied practices.' - Patricia Vertinsky, Distinguished Professor of Social and Cultural History, The University of British Columbia, Canada 'Holly Thorpe's book will be essential reading on courses in sports studies and extreme lifestyles for many years to come. Snowboarding Bodies is a distinctive feminist contribution to this burgeoning field of 'physical cultural studies' extending it to popular culture, tourism studies and subcultures.' - Steve Redhead, Professor of Sport and Media Cultures, University of Brighton, UK
'In Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice, Holly Thorpe brings social theory to life through a series of articulate and provocative insights into a snowboarding culture which has developed from a marginal activity into an Olympic sport with mass appeal in less than four decades. The result is a brilliant set of descriptions and analyses which provide an unsurpassed portrayal of snowboarding bodies in popular culture and a unique contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the body and embodied practices.' - Patricia Vertinsky, Distinguished Professor of Social and Cultural History, The University of British Columbia, Canada 'Holly Thorpe's book will be essential reading on courses in sports studies and extreme lifestyles for many years to come. Snowboarding Bodies is a distinctive feminist contribution to this burgeoning field of 'physical cultural studies' extending it to popular culture, tourism studies and subcultures.' - Steve Redhead, Professor of Sport and Media Cultures, University of Brighton, UK 'Snowboarding Bodies is eminently successful at every level.' - Sport in Society
Author Information
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.
